How to change a baby diaper

 How to change a baby diaper

Along with caring for and bathing your infant, changing their diapers is a task you'll encounter as quickly and often  as any other parent. Although it may seem a bit overwhelming from the start, figuring out how to change a diaper will become natural with training.

Newborns typically go through 8 to 10 diapers per day(depends on feeding), which is more than 3,500 diaper changes until they are latrine trained. Here are some tips to make it easier for you and your little one.

Steps to change a diaper

Before diapering you must have the following things in hand.

• 1.      New diper
• 2.      Cotton rolls or wipes
• 3.      Oil or ointments
• 4.      Clean cloths

okOkey! lets start to learn the process step-by-step

Clean hands: you must wash your hands to maintain hygiene to both of you and your baby

Lay your baby on a comfy place: it is very important, if your baby is comfy it will be too much easy to change his diaper. keep playing, loving your baby during diaper change to avoid any irritation to your baby.

Take off the dirty diaper: Gently place your baby on his back. remove the diaper pins from each side. Gently lift your baby up by the legs and remove the stool and soiled diaper from underneath.

Clean washcloths or wipes: wash your baby's genital area with lume warm and clean water and clean washcloths or cotton rolls to remove all dirtiness,  then wipe whole area to avoid any infection.

Clean diapers: place a clean diaper under your baby in a correct way, poop and pee make make baby’s skin irritating or rash for that you can use oil or you can apply a good ointments or cream thourly on baby front and back genital's,  most of the diaper companies have different markings indicating that which part of diper is front, back, top or bottom, tie the diaper properly and remember if your baby is male, place his front genital  downside to avoid pee leakage.

Clean cloths: after all that change your baby cloth with neat and clean ones.

Final Step: dispose of the used diaper, put dirty cloths of baby for washing, and again clean your hands with good soap.

You are done !