Baby's nails grow very fast, and the baby often likes to scratch with his little hands. If he is not careful, he will scratch his little face, which makes the mother feel very distressed. However, cutting your baby's nails is not an easy task. If you are not careful, you may hurt your baby. Is there any way to make it easier for mothers to cut their baby's nails?
How to cut baby’s nails
① Prepare a baby-specific nail clipper.
② When the baby is still young, the mother can wait for the baby to lie on the bed and fall asleep to cut the baby's nails; when the baby grows to a few months old, the baby can be allowed to sit on the mother's lap facing outward, and then the mother can cut the baby's nails. nail.
③ The mother holds the baby's hand with her hand, separates the baby's fingers as much as possible, and uses a baby-specific nail clipper to cut the nails into arc shapes one by one.
④After cutting, the mother should use the belly of her thumb to touch the nail sections one by one to see if there are any rough parts on the baby's nails. If so, continue to cut until they are smooth.
⑤After cutting the fingernails, let the baby lie on his back, and the mother uses the same method to cut the baby's toenails.
Precautions for cutting baby's nails
Use baby-specific nail clippers
Be sure to use baby-specific nail clippers. Such nail clippers are very safe in design and limit the length of the nails. They can only cut to the edge of the baby's nails at the longest. Without cutting the meat. Furthermore, the opening of this kind of nail clipper is smaller and the blade is buckled inward, so it will not hurt the baby's fingers. Never just use adult nail clippers instead. Also, don’t cut your baby’s hair too short to avoid pain.
It is best to cut the baby's nails when he is asleep
Try to avoid cutting the baby's nails when the baby is awake, especially when he is having fun. This is because the baby's body and limbs will shake when he is happy and cannot calm down. If the baby's nails are cut at this time, the baby may be injured. Therefore, it is best to trim your baby's nails while he is sleeping.
Avoid wearing gloves instead of cutting nails
Some mothers are afraid to cut their baby's nails, but they are worried that the baby will scratch themselves, so they put on a pair of small gloves for the baby, thinking that this will be foolproof. In fact, wearing gloves is very harmful to babies. This is because the baby's fingers are not flexible enough, and wearing gloves further limits the movement of the baby's hands. If the hands lack activity, it is not only detrimental to the baby's brain development, but not trimming the nails in time will also make the baby's little hands and nails extremely unhygienic.
