Keeping nails short is important to your baby's safety. Because infants can easily scratch and cut their own delicate skin while happily waving their hands and feet.
It's also important to keep babies' nails trimmed once they start interacting and playing with other kids who could be scratched. you can,
1- Find a good position that allows you easy access to your baby's hands. This may mean placing your baby in your lap or even waiting until your baby's asleep.
2- Make sure you are in an area with good lighting so that you can see what you're doing.
3- Hold your baby's palm and finger steady with one hand and cut with the other.
4- Cut your baby's nails with baby nail scissors, which have rounded tips for safety, or baby clippers.
make sure to keep the nail edges rounded instead of jagged with nail files or emery boards
5- If you accidentally draw blood don't worry. Using a sterile gauze pad, gently apply pressure to stop the bleeding.
*Because babies' nails tend to grow quickly from infancy to toddler hood, they may need to be trimmed as often as once or twice a week. Some newborns need their nails to be trimmed even more often than that during the first few weeks of life.
By kidshealth.org
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