Bathing a newborn can be fun for both parents and baby. However, the bathing environment is slippery, and if the baby is not cooperative and moves a lot, it will cause some difficulties. Therefore, parents need to know the basic ways to bathe a newborn before starting.

Proper and adequate care for a newborn baby does not only begin after birth, but parents need to prepare everything from the prenatal stage, especially in terms of knowledge and psychology. For first-time mothers, there are certainly many confusions about how to properly care for a newborn baby.

After crying at birth, the newborn will escape the mother's body and must adapt to the outside environment, learn to breathe, suckle and cope with hot and cold weather... To protect the health and comprehensive development, taking care of the newborn until the first month is very important, there are many issues that parents need to pay attention to.

According to statistics from the World Health Organization, up to 47% of newborns with sepsis have a transmission route from umbilical infection and about 21% of newborns who come to the clinic for other reasons have umbilical infection.

The period after the umbilical cord falls off in newborns is a sensitive period. Abnormal signs in the navel are warnings of dangerous diseases. If any unusual signs appear, it is best for the mother to take the baby to the hospital for examination.

Normally, newborn babies' umbilical cords fall off within 8-10 days. After falling off, the umbilical cord still needs to be well cared for and kept dry, however, if the umbilical cord is not cleaned and cared for properly, it can lead to bad conditions.

The process of umbilical cord falling off in newborns is slow or long depending on the body, health as well as hygiene. Keeping the umbilical cord clean immediately after birth and in the first days after birth is effective in preventing umbilical infection.

The newborn's body is still weak, so the risk of infection is very high, especially umbilical infection if not properly cared for. Umbilical infection increases the risk of very dangerous sepsis, increasing the mortality rate after birth. Therefore, how to properly care for the umbilical cord to limit the risk of infection is very important.

The navel of a newborn baby is susceptible to infection because of the umbilical cord cut after birth. If the baby's navel is cut with an unsterilized instrument or daily hygiene is not ensured, the baby's navel will be at high risk of infection. In addition, abnormalities in the navel of a newborn baby can also be a warning sign of some dangerous diseases in the child.

Normally, the newborn's navel will fall off within 7 to 20 days, this is a normal phenomenon, however, in cases where the newborn's navel smells bad with white pus or the newborn's navel has yellow pus, the mother needs to be very careful because this is a sign that the baby's navel is infected.

The navel in newborns is a circular scar that forms when the umbilical cord falls off. There are many diseases related to the navel of newborns. The following article will share some navel problems in newborns as well as how to detect early, care for and promptly handle problems in the navel of newborns, avoiding unnecessary complications.