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Baby’s nails surely grow fast. Although it is smoother and thinner than adult’s nails, but it is sharp enough to make a scratch on baby’s face or on yours while she is breastfeeding. Therefore, parents must trim baby’s nails routinely, at least once in a week. For new parents, to trim baby’s nails can be dilemma, they will think that if it is not trim it surely can hurt their baby’s face, but if it is trim parents will feel worried that they can hurt baby’s fingers.
So, how to successfully trim baby’s nails without make any harm to their fingers? Maybe these things can be considered:

When?

• After bathing, why should after taking a bath? It is known that right after baby taking bath, their nails are still softer than usual. Cheer your baby out while you trim their nails, or you can ask your husband to do that. Try to shift their attention so that your baby will not pull their hands out.
• While baby’s sleeping. Of course, you can success trim their nails if only they are slept tight. If they are not, they might will be awaken or spontaneously pull their hands out.

Here are some tips to successfully trim baby’s nails:

• Use special baby nail-nippers, usually it is signed by circular tip and also not too sharp to be potentiated harm baby’s fingers.
• Push their meal under the nails, so it won’t be also trim, you should extra careful.
• Talk to your baby while you trim their nails, it makes both of you to not feel intense.
• If you hurt baby’s fingers, don’t be panic. Sometimes people feel nervous, so do you. To stop their bleeding, push the bleed-side by using cotton. In about one or two minutes, bleeding will stop. It doesn’t need to put in cast since it could postpone the healing process.

It is important to always pay attention to your baby’s nails,trim it if you find the nails have grown longer. Do not let your baby harm themselves by scratching their face using their nails. Hopefully these tips on trimming baby’s nails could be useful for you.