Many mothers have recently reported that they are very worried when cutting their babies’ nails:
The baby was just born for more than a month, and his nails were so soft that he did not dare to cut them.
Nail clippers are attached to meat scissors for fear of hurting the baby.
I want to cut my baby’s nails safely, but my baby has been making a lot of noise and refusing to cooperate.
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In response to the concerns of mothers in the process of cutting their babies’ nails, we invited Dr. Feng Xueying to tell us what to pay attention to when cutting their babies’ nails, so that mothers can easily solve the problem of cutting their babies’ nails.
To cut your baby’s nails, these misunderstandings should be avoided.
Before the full moon, the baby cannot have his nails cut?
The traditional view is that the newborn’s nails are very soft and not yet fully developed, which will not harm the baby. Therefore, it is not recommended to cut the nails of the baby within one month.
In fact, with the improvement of living standards and people’s attention to nutrition during pregnancy, Apart from the fact that the nails of premature infants cannot reach the finger tip when they are born, the nails of full-term newborns generally exceed the finger tip, and allergic eczema of infants is very common at present. Children just a few days after birth can see the blood marks on their small faces, so they can cut their nails about a week after birth.
The baby’s fingernails grow at an average rate of 1-1.4 mm per week. It is recommended to cut the fingernails once or twice a week.
Afraid of causing nail embedding and cutting into an arc?
In fact, it is not directly related to whether the nail is cut into an arc, but directly related to the depth of the nail cut.
Some mothers are worried that their nails will grow into the meat when they cut their babies’ nails. Therefore, they will cut both sides of their nails very deep. This is easy to make the long nails become embedded nails and embedded in soft tissues, thus damaging the surrounding skin, causing infection, even suppuration and paronychia.
Do you want to trim the edges after cutting?
Trimming nails is a complete process. Trimming is to make the nails reach a suitable length and trimming is to make the nails reach a comfortable state of existence.
Only cutting without trimming will make the edges and corners of nails sharper and more likely to hurt the baby, so trimming and trimming are equally important.
Use sharp objects such as toothpicks to pick dirt in fingernails?
Clean mothers will have the urge to clean up immediately when they see black and dirty things in their baby’s fingernails, because babies often put their small hands in their mouth to suck, fearing that bacteria will be eaten into their stomachs.
Usually, sharp toothpicks, knives and other sharp utensils are used to pick out stolen goods from nail seams. This is dangerous, and it is also unfavorable to the growth of baby’s nails. The correct approach is to rinse the baby’s nails with clear water after cutting them.
The correct posture for cutting your baby’s nails.
Step 1 Prepare a suitable set of trimming tools
As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. To cut your baby’s nails, you need to choose nail clippers or nail clippers suitable for the baby. Flexibility is high, safe and practical, with natural radian, it can be trimmed at one time, which is not easy to cause harm to the baby, reduces the polishing time, and is very suitable for young babies.
2. Choose the right environment
Usually for a young baby, it is best to cut his fingernails during his deep sleep, which can prevent the baby from moving. For a slightly older child, after discussing with him, he can cut his fingernails with the cooperation of the baby. I would rather stay a little longer than hurt the child, otherwise I will be very reluctant to cut my fingernails again next time.
3. Operation step
Step 1: When the baby is sleeping, put it flat on the bed. Older babies can also hold the baby when awake, leaning against their mother on their back, holding the baby’s hand with one hand and nail scissors with the other.
Step 2: Hold the baby’s five fingers to avoid the baby moving during cutting.
Step 3: Cut the middle part of the nail first, then trim the two sides, so as to control the trimming length.
Step 4: After cutting nails, polish the sharp corners with a polisher to prevent the baby from hurting himself when moving.
Step 5: If you see barbs growing beside your baby’s fingernails, do not pull them out with your hands, otherwise it will hurt other skin and cause infection in serious cases. You can trim them off with nail scissors.
Step 6: Do not cut your nails too short, especially on both sides of your nails, otherwise it may cause nail embedding and even paronychia.
Attention should be paid to the following two situations
Baby does not cooperate
Before the baby is 2 ~ 3 years old, he does not like to cut his nails in most cases, so for the mother of the baby aged 0 ~ 1 years old, it is best to cut her nails when the baby is asleep. Don’t let the baby aged 1 ~ 3 be afraid, and gradually learn to cooperate. For babies over 3 years old, tell them the benefits of nail cutting. Some of them have already attended kindergarten and will learn the importance of nail cutting from kindergarten.
Accidentally hurt the baby
The most common situation is that you accidentally cut the meat and bleed. At this time, you can stop the bleeding by finger pressure first, and then wipe it with iodophor or alcohol for disinfection. If the wound surface is small, you do not need bandaging. If the wound surface is large or the bleeding is obvious, you can use Band-Aid, but don’t bandage it for too long. You can remove the bandaging by stopping the scabbing of blood, so that the wound surface heals faster.