First-time and overprotective mothers and fathers with their babies

Did you wash your baby's clothing two or three times before putting it on for the first time? Do you sterilize anything that is in contact with your son or daughter? Do you peek into the crib every second and third to make sure the baby is still breathing? You do not have any illness ... you're just

Did you wash your baby's clothing two or three times before putting it on for the first time? Do you sterilize anything that is in contact with your son or daughter? Do you peek into the crib every second and third to make sure the baby is still breathing?

You do not have any illness ... you're just a first-time mother or father with a lot of fear that something could happen to the baby. You are not alone, thousands of parents live this experience although, in general, time, relaxes the most extreme customs.

When parents overprotect the baby

It is normal to wash the baby's clothes before putting it on for the first time, the delicate skin of the baby requires it, so is sterilizing bottles or pacifiers with each feeding during the first weeks. However, there are fathers and mothers who, in their eagerness to protect the baby, take extreme precautions to an exaggerated extent and continue with these customs when the baby is older.

The baby, after four or five months, puts everything he has in his mouth, is his way of discovering the world. It is true that you have to take care that you do not carry dangerous objects or that they are dirty, but you do not need to sterilize everything that is within reach of your hand. Cleaning is important, but being in the world also means being in contact with germs and bacteria.

The baby's immune system must be prepared to act and to be in contact with the germs it helps him to train. It is important to know that if we constantly use cleaners or sterilizers that perform the work that our immune system should do, it relaxes and does not do its job as it should.

The same happens when the baby starts to crawl, fear prevents many parents from enjoying the first steps of the baby. Taking care that the home is safe with the baby is important, if we have already covered the corners of the furniture and removed from our space the most dangerous for the baby, we must understand that it will fall and that it will cry, that is when we should be there to reassure and support him

In short: take care and protect the baby yes, overprotect not.