How to keep a baby warm:
An arrangement to keep a normal baby warm and safe from cold
Maintain the room temperature warm
Cover and
put cloths on the baby, wrap it up with clean cloth and place it close to its
mother.
Initiate
early breast-feeding.
Be ensuring
that the room is warm and the baby is not left uncovered.
Don’t pour oil in to
any orifice, like the nose or ears at any time.
How to re-warm a baby who has got cold:
(When the body temperature is in between 97 °F and 95°F)
Increase
the room temperature.
Remove
any wet things like blankets and cloths from the baby’s room.
Hold the
baby with its skin next to its mother’s skin (skin-to-skin contact, which is
called Kangaroo Mother Care) and place a warmed cloth (not too
hot to avoid burns) on its back or chest. As this cloth cools down, replace it
with another warmed one, and repeat until the baby is warmer. Continue the same
process until the baby’s temperature reaches the normal range.
Continue
to breastfeed the baby to provide more calories and fluids to prevent a drop in
the blood glucose level.
Put on
the baby cap and woollen cloths and keep it closer to its mother.
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What to do when the temperature becomes less than
95°F.
(In this
condition, the baby is treated as a Hypothermia baby)
Fallow
all the advice what you do when a baby gets cold up to 95°F, and;
You are
advised to contact a doctor, first.
In the
meanwhile, place skin- to- skin contact (the mother should keep the baby
continuously in the middle of her breast and stomach with wrapped woollen cloths
from outside (mother and child together should be wrapped).When the baby is a
little warmer , then put on wormed clothes to baby and place in a pre-warmed
bed. In a more critical condition, a hot stone or hot Water-bottle should be
kept inside the bed to warm the bed but that must be removed before putting
baby in the bed.
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