Prepare the space where your child is going to be changed
The place where you change your child must be immediately functional, because you will no longer be able to leave it once they are lying on the changing table. So check that everything is ready and at hand:
- The mattress change, ideally covered with a towel of toilet Clean and dry (it is more convenient to wash a towel regularly than a mattress cover);
- a layer own ;
- several cotton or wipes (prefer Ecological wipes in natural matters);
- Care products ;
- Possibly, a tap or a bottle recovered with a dose cap that you have filled with water.
Wash your hands, then install your child on the changing table. When it is larger and/or you will have more experience, you will very easily reproduce all these gestures in less comfortable places such as a bed, a sofa or even a car seat!
Clean baby
Once your child is well installed, defeats the attachments of the layer. Fold them back to themselves so that they do not hang everywhere.
If your child has made abundant stools, he will be dirty on the pubis, or even on the belly. Remove these dirt with the front of the layer. Then lift the buttocks baby By holding it behind the knees and close the layer leaving the front front on the top. You can now rest your child's buttocks on the layer. This allows you to keep the towel or clean exchange carpet.
Then humb the cotton with liniment, a micellar water adapted or a cleaning milk adapted to this use. Carefully clean the belly and the genitals by checking the folds well. If you have a little girl, proceed from top to bottom to avoid infections (from the cleiest to the dirtiest).
Raise baby, always at the back of the knees, and clean your buttocks. The stools are sometimes so abundant and liquid that they flow in the back. It is therefore necessary to pass the cotton or the wipe on the kidneys. If necessary, lean your child slightly to the side to clean it well.
Protect baby's skin with suitable care
The treatment is specially recommended when babies make liquid stools, as these are more strongly irritating to the skin. Urine is also a source of itching. If your child's buttocks are red, do not hesitate to use a Cream changes. Prefer creams without zinc oxide. You must consult a pediatrician when the epidermis remains inflamed for several days in a row.
Of course, the products must be chosen with care. Carefully check the list of ingredients. At Love and Green, we banish any conservative likely to be carcinogenic or endocrine disruptor. Our products are certified organic by Ecocert and respect the imperatives of the Cosmebio charter, which requires a minimum of 95 % of natural ingredients and banish controversial substances. All certifications of Love & Green products are just accessible here.
Put back a layer
Your child's buttocks are clean and all sweet. It only remains to put a clean layer. Put aside the one you just removed and have a new layer instead. Place it high enough under baby size. The flaps must be at the same level at the front and at the rear and the size well taken in the layer. The thighs must also be wrapped: the flaps must join and cross on the hips. All this without tightening too much, so that your child can fidget at ease! It may seem complicated, but rest assured: you will acquire the helping hand very quickly. Trust yourself.
All you have to do is close the dirty layer. Take your child in your arms and put it safe, then throw the layer and wash your hands. It's over! Until next exchange, Of course.
And to know everything about the liniment, an essential product during the baby exchange, find our article "What is liniment and how to use it?".
