The hospital will thoughtfully send you and baby home with several different diaper samples — all of them disposable, and all of them “newborn” size. The design and construction of newborn diapers differs more than a little from nappies for bigger babies. Because of these distinctive differences, packages of newborn diapers ought to feature “newborn” all over the label; double check that the label adds “babies up to ten pounds” just for reassurance.
Manufacturers size diapers according to babies’ weights. The designation “newborn” typically serves as a synonym for “babies weighing up to ten pounds.” The designation soon may become obsolete, because the average boy bay currently weighs-in at between eight and nine pounds, at least a full pound more than his brothers and sisters born more than ten years ago. One in ten newborn boys already weighs ten pounds.
If your newborn baby and the newborn diapers’ dimensions do not match, ask a nurse; they diaper more infants in a day than you will in seven lifetimes. No one can offer better-informed diaper advice than a labor-delivery-recovery nurse.
Disposable newborn baby diapers do have some custom features built-in at the factory: Manufacturers mill and refine the paper linings to make them extra soft and extra absorbent. Naturally, a newborn baby’s skin is extra-sensitive to textures, because she has remained blissfully naked her whole life. Also naturally, a newborn baby goes through approximately a dozen diapers each day, and some extra absorbency provides at least a modicum of relief for exhausted parents.
Best of all, new born diapers feature an ingenious U-shaped opening, allowing plenty of room for the still-healing umbilical cord. Old-fashioned diapers often irritated delicate umbilici, contributing to serious crying, the infant equivalent of “Ouch, Mom, that really hurts!” In many cases, irritated umbilici developed serious infections.
Manufacturers also have improved newborn diapers’ designs, changing nappies’ proportions to fit fresh-from-the-womb bodies. They have elasticized the waistbands-not a standard feature on previous generations’ disposables. And the best brands have added extra flex and give in elastic leg bands, because brand new babies squirm, stretch, and flex a lot.
It takes newborn muscles a little while to acclimate in this strange new environment, where gravity gives them weight. The elastic’s extra flex prevents chafing while allowing baby’s freedom of movement without risk of leaks.
Ashley J Michaels is an home economist. For more great tips on choosing Newborn Diapers for your baby please visit http://bestdiaper.net/. Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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