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lunes, 16 de julio de 2012

Prepating for a new baby







PREPATING FOR A NEW BABY



Escrito por: Albert Shamir Galvá de Jesús




Pregnancy is a time of anticipation, excitement, preparation, and, for many new parents, uncertainty. You dream of a baby who will be strong, healthy, and bright-and you make plans to provide her with everything she needs to grow and thrive. You probably also have fears and questions, especially if this is your first child, or if there have been problems with this or a previous pregnancy. What if something goes wrong during the course of your pregnancy, or what if labor and delivery are difficult? What if being a parent isn’t everything you’ve always dreamed it would be? Fortunately, most of these worries are needless. The nine months of pregnancy will give you time to for the realities of parenthood.
Some of these preparations should begin when you first learn you’re pregnant. The best way to help your baby develop is to take good care of yourself, since medical attention and god nutrition will directly benefit your baby’s health. Getting plenty of rest and exercising moderately will help you feel better and ease the physical stresses of pregnancy. Talk to your physician about prenatal vitamins and avoiding smoking and alcohol.
As pregnancy progresses you’re confronted with a long list of related decisions, from planning for the delivery to decorating the nursery. You probably have made many of these decisions already. Perhaps you’ve postponed some others because your baby doesn’t yet seem “real” to you. However, the more actively you prepare for your baby’s arrival, the more real that child will seem, and the faster your pregnancy will appear to pass.
Eventually it may seem as though your entire life revolves around this baby-to-be. This increasing preoccupation is perfectly normal and healthy and may actually help prepare you emotionally for the challenge of parenthood. After all, you’ll be making decisions about your child for the next two decades-at least! Now is a perfect time to start.
BIRTH AND THE FIRST MOMENTS AFTER

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iving birth is one of the most extraordinary experiences of a woman’s life. Yet after all the months of careful preparation and anticipation, the moment of birth is almost never what you had expected. Labor may be easier or more physically demanding than you had imagined. You may end up in a delivery room instead of the birthing room you’d wanted, or you could have a Caesarean section instead of a vaginal delivery. Your health, the condition of the fetus, and the policies of the hospital will all help determine what actually happens. But fortunately, despite what you may have thought when you were pregnant, these are not the issues that will make your child’s birth a “success.” What counts is the baby, here at last and healthy.

DELIVERY ROOM PROCEDURES FOLLOWING A NORMAL VAGINAL BIRTH

As your baby lies with you following a routine delivery, his umbilical cord will still be attached to the placenta. For several minutes the cord may continue to pulsate, supplying the baby with oxygen while he establishes his own breathing. Once the pulsing stops, the cord will be clamped and cut. (Because there are no nerves in the cord, the baby feels no pain during this procedure.) The clamp will remain in place for twenty-four to forty-eight hours, or until the cord is dry and no longer bleeds. The stump that remains after the clamp is removed will fall off sometime between ten days and three weeks after birth.
Once you’ve had a few moments to get acquainted with your baby, he will be dried to keep him from getting too cold, and a doctor or nurse will examine him briefly to make sure there are no obvious problems or abnormalities. One minute after birth, and again at five minutes, he will be given Apgar scores (see page 30), which measures his overall responsiveness. Then he will be wrapped in a blanket and given back to you.
Depending on the hospital’s routine, your baby may also be weighed, measured, and receive medication before leaving the delivery room. All newborns are slightly low in vitamin K, which is necessary for normal blood-clotting, so they are given an injection of this vitamin to prevent excessive bleeding.
Because bacteria in the birth canal can infect a baby’s eyes, your baby will be given antibiotic eye drops or silver nitrate ointment, either immediately after delivery or later, in the nursery, to prevent any infection.
There’s at least one other important procedure to be done before either you or your newborn leaves the delivery room: Both of you will receive matching labels bearing your name and other identifying details. After you verify the accuracy of these labels, one will be attached to your wrist and the other to your baby’s. Each timed the child is taken from or returned to you while in the hospitals also foot print newborns as an added preoccupation.

Child Care Books from the American Academy of Pediatrics 1998 


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