What Do You Do with a Newborn Baby?

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Newborn Care Activities

  • Smile for your infant to imitate. Use a toy for focusing. Let your baby lie on the tummy to strengthen neck and shoulders.

  • Talking and Singing

    • Stimulate senses with sensory activities. Talk to your baby.

  • Care & Bonding After Birth

    • Immediate Newborn Care
    • Your newborn needs care immediately after birth.
    • Dry thoroughly and give skin-to-skin contact with mother.
    • Initiate early breastfeeding.
    • Check if baby is breathing normally or needs rapid treatment.
    • Take care of things like breathing, sleeping, first breath.
    • Get Apgar score in first minutes after birth.
    • Monitor condition after birth.
    • Ensure health and safety.
    • See if baby needs resuscitation.
    • Do complete physical exam, give preventative medicine and vaccines, ensure adequate feedings, provide safe sleep, maintain hygiene, support wellbeing.

  • Activities with Newborn

    • Enjoying Newborn Activities
    • Taking care of a newborn can become monotonous.
    • Enjoy newborn baby activities like getting attached in early months as it plays a role in development.

  • Routines & Tips

    • Establishing Routines
    • Establish an early routine – bathe, dress, stroll around the block.
    • Place a drowsy baby in a crib to sleep on their own.
    • Swaddle baby.

Newborn Care Tips

  • Subscribe for activity ideas from newborn onwards.
  • Stretch at diaper change singing this little piggy.
  • Great to involve older kid.
  • Check our diaper change sing and stretch game.
  • Exposure to sunlight for a newborn provides vitamin D.
  • Take newborn in sunlight once a day.
  • Play or put in court to enjoy.
  • Provides sunbathing sense.
  • Newborns enjoy sunbathing in winters.

Daily Activities with a Newborn

  • What do you do with a newborn all day?

  • Talk, sing, read stories. This helps language and communication skills needed later.

  • Keep newborn close by to reduce SIDS risk.

  • Allow 5+ hours sleep.

  • Do tummy time for an hour daily by 3 months.

  • Focus on feeding and resting.

  • Laundry and dishes can wait.

  • Enjoy this special time.

  • Wash hands before handling newborn.

  • Newborns’ immune systems aren’t strong yet.

  • Get help from friends and relatives.

  • Taking care of yourself helps care for newborn.

  • Consider getting help if overwhelmed.

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