From: (Bianca Miciano)
The moment your child is born, you could immediately become a nervous wreck. You could see dangers lurking almost everywhere. You may have baby-proofed everything at your house, but you still feel as if there are things you can still do, changes you can still make. You constantly have to keep an eye on your little one, check on his breathing every so often. But despite your chronic freak-outs, your child is growing up perfectly healthy and normal. You may go totally nuts, especially with your firstborn. But how can you tell if you’re simply feeling new mom jitters or something more exhausting: a crippling, pointless paranoia. Is it possible to be too protective?
Well, you’re paranoid if you keep your healthy infant isolated well past the first couple of weeks and wish you could ask visitors to wear masks and gloves when they hold your baby. Know that for the first few months, your antibodies, which were transmitted through the umbilical cord, give your newborn some protection and breastfeeding also boosts his immune system. Still, you can’t protect your child from every bug. You can expect your infant to get one or two bouts of sniffles in his first year.
What strategies can you employ? For starters, don’t let sick people hold your baby. Ask friends and their kids who are fighting a form of illness not to stop by first until they’re well. Fresh air is good for healthy, full-term babies, so get outside. Just avoid crowded indoor places such as the malls and airports. And what about the obsession with anti-bacterial sanitizers? There is debate in the medical community about whether hyper-hygiene leads to allergies and asthma, because if your baby isn’t exposed to germs his immune system won’t get enough practice fighting them. Since there’s no consensus at this point in time, it helps to take the middle-of-the-road approach. Wash your hands with soap and water when appropriate and have everyone else who handles your baby do the same thing as well.
Then, there are those who are so terrified he’ll stop breathing that you can’t stop checking every so often. Yes, a number of babies die of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), but the number isn’t one to be scared of. There’s actually a lot you can do to cut down on your baby’s risks of dying. The biggest cause of which is re-breathing exhaled air, which doesn’t have enough oxygen in it. Babies on their tummies can’t move their head as well and have therefore trouble getting enough fresh air. Also try putting your baby to bed in a safe crib: a mattress, a fitted sheet, and not much of anything else. Giving your baby a pacifier when he goes to sleep will significantly reduce his risks, even when it falls out of his mouth the moment he dozes off to dreamland. Don’t allow your infant to become overheated, which leads to a deeper sleep. And don’t let anyone smoke in your house because this can double his risk of SIDS.
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