subject: New Criteria of Baby Dressing [print this page] Parents often tell their children to wear more clothes to keep warm, or they will get cold easily. However, it is strange that among the babies seeing a doctor in the hospital, most of them are those who wear warm enough.
Babies have weak ability to produce heat to keep warm. It is OK to have him wear more clothes. But it is unreasonable to be too exaggerated and no otherjewelries will be better. If babies wear too much, it is inconvenient for them to move, which will easily cause illness. Contrarily, wearing just warm clothes helps babies to increase their amount of activities and thus enhance their immune ability. There is a principle to add clothes for babies. You can do this according to weather forecast, temperature variation as well as your sensation. The criterion is that the baby does not sweat nor feel cold in his hands or feet.
When you get up in the morning, check the weather first and compare it with yesterday's weather. If no big change, you should better not to add clothes to your baby. Once you have added clothes and belts to your baby, do not take it off for good. Since it gets colder from autumn to winter day by day, it is the right thing to add more clothes till the cold season comes. The best choice is to make sure that the baby wears as much as the parents do. If parents do not feel cold when they sit, then the baby will not get cold in that he is in the state of movement all the time.
If the baby does some exercises, he should wear less. When he sweats, it is better not to take off his clothes immediately. Instead, you should wait till he does not sweat naturally. You should also bear in mind that babies should not be taken to a shower until he cools down after exercises.
