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Having a child may seem fun and is super exciting for every couple. Especially when the baby is going to be the first one it is really exciting for every couple. However, we all know that first baby is a difficult experience because it is something new and none of the parents is kind of aware of all those things connected to child. Usually when the couple has their first baby, there is someone older and more experienced to help them with the newly born baby. The helper can be grandmothers or just close relatives or a friend to family. The parents have some difficulties when treating the baby also, because the newly born baby is too small in size and some parents even are scared of carrying the baby.
On the other hand, having the first baby is one of the most cheerful and happiest occasions in life for a parent, and the birth of the first baby is always so welcoming among relatives. Everyone is keeping the focus on the baby, trying to figure out who the baby looks like and even already deciding what he or she will be doing in future and which profession will choose. However, there are lots of things that new and unskilled, inexperienced people do not know about their first newly born babies. So let’s see what they do not know, that they should know.
- The very first thing refers to moms. You always have imagined that seeing your child for the first time is so romantic and you feel different colors of different emotions when you hear the first cry of your first baby. In reality, you are so exhausted that you are just not able to hear it. The pain, the doctors and nurses they do not let you hear it the way you imagined it to be.
- You have always been thinking that it is wonderful to breastfeed and see how you feed a human being and your wonderful angelic baby. You thought that it is very cute and nice. In reality the baby breastfeeding is a hard thing to do, and at the same time be prepared that you may lose the breast shape. Your nipples may crack and bleed, which is really painful. Besides your child may be extremely uncomfortable with your breast, and make some uncomfortable and painful movements and beats.
- Be prepared that the hormonal field of the woman after birth is not fixed yet, and you may have a hormonal crash, which may result in angriness toward the baby. Especially if the baby is crying a lot, then make sure you do not have a panic on the baby.
- You may think that baby will sleep at night. This is quite individual, but you most likely will have to wake up several times at night, because the baby is hungry, thirsty and hell knows what else. Most of the babies eat several times at night. Usually as they grow older they start waking up less, however be prepared that you will not sleep well quite a long time at nights.
- You should find some support groups especially when you are inexperienced and this is your first baby. These groups are everywhere in social media, join the new mothers group, the breastfeeding group, parenting group and others, which will help you get information on how to do it all with the first baby.
- You should take pictures of your first baby especially a lot. Later on in his or her life, when the baby grows up, he or she must have something to see and remember. So photos could be just the perfect option. The baby will later appreciate you.
- You should not carry to much your baby in your arms. This is how they learn to cling to mothers and mother cannot move away even for a second. Instead make the baby get used to other people as well because this will make the parents’ job easier. They will not have to always sit by baby’s side.
- It would be great, if the mother or fathers, were not the only ones to see the child and to play with him always. From the very early, just after few days the baby is born you should get him used to being away from parents.
- However, do not let too many people in contact with the baby, when 2 months after birth is not passed, because it can be dangerous for the baby’s immunity system, and the baby may get some infections from others.
These were the most common things that the new parents do not know about their first babies. After first babies they already know everything and do not usually repeat the same mistakes. SO take care of your first baby, because the first one is just another kind of blessing.
