Now I have to go to the hospital in advance to see if I can give birth naturally or need cesarean section.
Now that the baby is born, the doctor will do a detailed examination and send it to the neonatal department in time if there is any problem.
Now, children should go to the hospital regularly for vaccination and examination after returning home.
Many parents can understand vaccination. After all, the incidence of many infectious diseases has dropped significantly after children are vaccinated.
However, many parents feel that it is useless for doctors to just show, touch and weigh their children. A bunch of people are waiting in line for the doctor to touch the child twice.
Children grow and develop rapidly before six months. If there is any problem, parents may regret it for life if they don't know it in time.
1 Aspect: the length of the child
Children are measured lying down before they are three years old, so they are not called height, but length.
Half a year ago, the growth of the child's length exceeded the sum of the growth of the child's height throughout adolescence.
The height growth of adolescent girls is about 10 cm, and some boys can grow to 15 cm. The child's length will increase from birth to six months 18 cm.
From birth to 3 months, the average length of each month is 4 cm, and from 4 months to 6 months, the average length of each month is 2 cm.
If parents don't take care of their children in time and measure their length, their growth will be slow or even absent, and parents don't know it. If you don't intervene in time, the child's height growth will miss the opportunity. Originally, the child could grow to 1.7 meters, but only to 1.65 meters.
2. The child's weight
Weight reflects the child's recent nutritional status, and weight can reflect whether breast milk is sufficient and whether the child is full.
Children from birth to three months gain an average of two kilograms a month, and from four months to six months, they gain an average of one kilogram and two ounces a month.
If children who drink milk powder gain too much weight, there may be overfeeding. If children gain too much weight when they are young, their height will increase normally, which will easily lead to obesity in the future. Obesity can also affect children's physical health and appearance.
When the doctor checks the child's weight, he will also know whether to breastfeed or milk powder. If the child's weight increases abnormally, the doctor will also give correct feeding advice.
Part 3: Head circumference
The growth of the child's head circumference represents the child's brain and is also growing rapidly.
When the child was born, the head circumference was about 34.5 cm. The average length of the first three months of life is 2 cm per month, and that of the fourth to sixth months is 1 cm. By the time the child is six months old, the head circumference reaches 43.6 cm.
If the child's head circumference grows too slowly, it may indicate that the child's brain develops slowly, which means that the child's head circumference grows abnormally, which may indicate that there is a problem inside the brain. These all need further examination and treatment.
The fourth aspect: fontanel
When the child is born, because the head circumference is relatively large and the skull is not completely closed, there will be anterior and posterior sutures, which are our front fontanel and rear fontanel.
The fontanel will close slowly 2 ~ 3 months after the child is born, but the front fontanel will close more slowly. After all, a child's brain needs some room to grow.
The premature or late closure of the fontanel is problematic. Premature closure of fontanel is not conducive to the development of children's brain, and slow closure of fontanel may indicate calcium deficiency or malnutrition in children.
These are all the things that child health care doctors need to know when measuring children's fontanels by hand. Parents are not professionals and it is difficult to understand.
The fifth aspect: ears
When the child is born, the doctor will observe the child's external ear to see if there is any problem, and will also give the child a hearing screening at birth.
Hearing screening is mainly because there is no way to know the hearing of the fetus during pregnancy, and there is no problem. Therefore, newborn hearing screening should be carried out after birth.
The sooner children's hearing problems are discovered, the better they can be corrected. Install cochlear implants for children as soon as possible so that children can study and live like normal children.
The sixth aspect: eyes
If the child is premature, the doctor will check the child's eyesight at birth.
If the child is born at full term, it may not be necessary to have this examination, but the child should have a vision examination or screening at six months.
Many hospitals take the initiative to ask parents to do vision screening for their children. Parents should not refuse. Children's eye problems, the sooner they are found, the better they can be corrected.
If the child care doctor doesn't ask you to screen your child's vision, you can consult and see if the hospital has a machine to screen your child's vision.
After checking the eyesight, the doctor will also give some suggestions to protect the child's eyesight, which will also help the child's eyesight to develop better.
The seventh aspect: oral cavity
When children have no teeth, doctors mainly look at whether there are some infections in their mouths. Like thrush or something
Some children will have their first deciduous teeth when they are four months old. After the deciduous teeth erupt, the doctor will also tell parents to gargle their children and pay attention to protecting their mouths.
Protecting children's mouth from an early age can not only make children have beautiful teeth, but also make them more confident.
The eighth aspect: listening to the heart and lungs
Some children found abnormal heart during prenatal examination, while others did not. After the child was born, the doctor listened to the child's heart and lungs with a stethoscope, and made corresponding examinations after hearing the noise.
Six months ago, once a child caught a cold, it was very easy to develop infection of bronchi or lungs. When the doctor examined the child, he could hear different sounds by listening to the heart and lungs, and also suggested that parents take the child to a specialist hospital for treatment in time.
The ninth aspect: touching the abdomen
The child's abdomen has not only intestines, but also liver and kidney. The doctor touched the child's abdomen, mainly to see if there was any abnormal lump.
10: Check the child's genitals.
For example, boys will see if there are more dirty things in it, and will also guide parents how to clean their children, or whether the scrotum has come down.
Girls should also see if there are any minor problems caused by poor hygiene.
1 1 aspect: hip joint
The doctor will let the child lie on the bed to see whether the lines on the hips, groin and thighs on both sides of the child are different in height, depth and quantity, and whether the feet are equal in length, so as to judge whether the child's hip joint is at risk of dysplasia.
The baby can hold his feet when he is four months old, and the doctor will observe the strength of his feet.
The sooner the child's hip joint is dysplasia, the better the correction effect, otherwise the child will have leg pain and walk like a duck when he grows up.
12 Aspect: the development of big moves
It depends on whether the child can look up at the full moon, support his chest with his hands at three months, and sit still at six months.
The development of children's big movements indicates the development of children. If the development is too slow, parents may need to take their children for rehabilitation training.
13: feeding consultation
For breast-fed children, doctors should know whether the child is properly connected when breastfeeding and how the child's stool is.
If it is artificially fed, you should also know how much milk the child drinks every day. Give parents correct feeding guidance.
The child grew up very fast six months ago. If there is anything abnormal and it is not corrected in time, it will have a great impact on children's health. Parents need to take their children to a child care doctor for corresponding examination every month or every other month.
Baby complementary food should be supplemented with meat in time. Eating meat makes babies smarter, but parents should avoid the seven misunderstandings of eating meat.