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Keep Your Baby Healthy - A Guide to Baby Care from Birth to 6 Months
1. HOW TO KEEP YOUR BABY
HEALTHY?
• Dr. Nehal D. Vaidya
• MBBS DCH
• Poojan Children Hospital and Shashvat Neonatal ICU
• Hospital Road
• Bhuj
2. CARE BEFORE BIRTH
• Maternal vaccine against
rubella 6 months before
PLANNING PREGNANCY
• Folic acid tab 3 months
before PLANNING
PREGNANCY
• Complete antenatal care
• Special prenatal tests in
special situation (maternal
age more than 30, genetic
disease)
3. CARE OF NORMAL NEWBORN
AT BIRTH
• Wrap well in winter, keep open
when fever
• Feed the baby within 30 min of
birth
• Give only mother’s milk (not even
water) for 6 months.
• Baby passes more than 8 times
urine when milk is adequate
• Baby gains 200gms wt every week
• Sleeps in day, plays and cries in
night
4. CARE UPTO 6 MONTHS
• Frequent feeding
• THERE ARE NO ANY DROPS
IN WORLD WICH CAN
PROVIDE ENERGY --
“TAKAAT”
• Energy comes only from
mother’s milk
• Cry is not always a symptom of
hunger
• There are no special soaps or
creams or massage oils for
baby
• Best massage oil is coconut oil
5. VACCINATION
• Any baby more than 2.0 kg birth wt should
be started vaccination from birth.
• Only DPT causes fever for 2 days.
• Ask your doctor regarding never vaccines
like Hep b, Hib etc.
• Vaccines either can be given on the same
day or can be given 4 wks apart for
optimum response
7. FEEDING AND WEANING
• For 6months - only
mother’s milk
• Start semi solids when
7nth month starts
• Best weaning food is
what we eat daily
• Thicker the food more the
wt gain
• Wt gain is not the only
goal of feeding
• It is usual for babies to
spit and vomit a little in
beginning
8. MY BABY IS WEAK
• Compare with
standard wt chart
(not with neighbor!)
• Wt depends on…
• Genetic make up
• emotional make up
• Food habits
9. FOSTER GOOD FOOD HABITS
• Babies are social-they learn by seeing
others. So let the baby eat with family.
• No force feeding. Let the baby eat by
himself as soon as possible.
• Encourage routine food and fruits
• Role of special “energy” drinks is limited
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