Taboos when visiting a newborn baby

In fact, it is very normal for friends and relatives to visit when a baby is born. However, since the body functions of a newborn are relatively fragile, it is easy to be injured or prone to disease. Therefore, you must follow the principles when visiting the baby, otherwise it will affect the baby's health. What are the taboos when visiting a newborn baby?

1. Look, don’t touch

When visiting a new baby, many people always like to come closer, touch the baby's little face, and discuss whether the child looks like the father or the mother. Especially the elderly, some may even pick up the baby. This behavior should never be done. The organs of a newborn baby are very fragile. When adults go from outdoors to indoors, they may carry a large number of bacteria. Direct contact with the baby at this time can easily cause the baby to become infected and sick, so it is imperative to only look and not touch.

2. Don’t kiss your baby

Most of the people who like to do this are the child's grandparents. Although it is a way to show love for the baby, the dangers involved are enormous. The saliva of adults may contain pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus. These bacteria may not pose any threat to adults with a certain resistance, but sometimes they can be fatal to babies. There have been many news reports of tragedies in which newborns died because of contact with the pathogenic saliva of adults. Therefore, adults must not be allowed to kiss babies.

3. Do not smoke indoors

Secondhand smoke is extremely harmful to adults, let alone newborn babies. The child's respiratory system has a poor ability to filter exhaust gas, so the air at home needs to be kept fresh at all times. Smoke can greatly damage the respiratory health of the newborn, so be sure not to smoke in the delivery room.

4. It is best not to bring children under 6 years old to visit

Cross infection between children is the easiest to occur, and children do not fully understand the dangers, so letting too young children visit newborn babies is prone to cross infection and unexpected accidents. Therefore, it is best not to bring children under 6 years old to contact newborns.