Your baby was born so recently, but already begins to slowly adapt and learn the world around. It grows rapidly and develops, and young parents usually have more and more questions. Why does a child, who is only 2 weeks old, do not sleep at night and cry? What kind of treatment should a newborn baby have? These and other points are discussed in this article in order to give answers and reassure inexperienced parents.
Child development in 2 weeks
Your newborn baby is 2 weeks old, but he is still very small and weak. The child does not hold his head (he will start doing this about 3 months). Heat exchange in crumbs is not yet established, it can easily overheat and supercool. Parents need to monitor the maintenance of the temperature regime and in any case not to wrap up their child. Digestion processes also did not come to normal: a newborn up to 3 months can have problems with stool, intestinal colic, regurgitation .
But there is also good news: by 2 weeks, the baby's yellowness usually passes through the yellowness of the face, associated with an elevated bilirubin content in the blood, the weight lost in the first week, the umbilical wound gradually heals. The children's facial expressions at this age are very funny: the kids involuntarily build funny grimaces, wink and even smile in their sleep and during wakefulness. The child is already beginning to recognize and distinguish his parents, briefly focus on the person bent over him or a bright object. Thus, the baby gradually gets used to life outside of mom, develops physiologically and becomes more sociable and interesting!
The regime of the day of the newborn child in 2 weeks
At the age of two weeks the crumb begins to stay awake a little longer, but during the day she quickly becomes tired of the abundance of new impressions. The periods of a child's daytime sleep last for several hours. At night, he can wake up every 2-3 hours to eat.
The nutrition of the child in 2 weeks consists exclusively of breast milk or a milk formula (with artificial feeding). The mixture should be selected carefully, taking into account all factors (the age of the child, the state of his health, the propensity for allergies, the presence of problems with the intestines, etc.) and preferably with the participation of a pediatrician.
The work of the intestines of a newborn also directly depends on food. By two weeks the number of feces per day is stabilized and is 3 to 5 times a day. It should be noted that in children who eat only breast milk, the diaper can stay clean and longer - this sometimes happens if the mother's milk has the optimal composition and is almost completely absorbed by the baby's body.
However, there are different situations, and the baby's state of health can suddenly deteriorate. The reason for this is most often the immaturity of the digestive system, because the enzymes necessary for digesting food are just beginning to be produced in the body of the crumbs, and because of this, malfunctions are possible. In particular, if a child has a stomachache for 2 weeks, it can be a consequence of colic
Not much time will pass, and your newborn baby will grow up, learn a lot, and you will remember with emotion these unique times when he was still very young, lying in bed and still could not do anything. Appreciate this golden time and help your child to adapt more easily to real life.