20/06/2022
You can start hardening at any age. But the sooner, the healthier and more stable the child will be. Hardened children look great, they have a good appetite, good sleep, they grow quickly and rarely get sick. Hardening can begin even in the first days after birth. True, after consulting with a doctor. If the baby is healthy, you can carry out various air or water procedures with the help of a shower and rubdowns. The main rule of hardening is the constancy of procedures and a gradual increase in their intensity. If you stop at the same level of load - for example, pour water on the child constantly with water of the same temperature without lowering it, or douse it rarely, for example, several times a month, then there will be no effect from such hardening. The next important point is that hardening is only effective when cold water is poured over a warm, heated child. After all, if the baby freezes and his hands and feet become cold, the water that is poured over him will seem almost warm, and the result of such “hardening” may be just the opposite. The most difficult task is to establish the first load for the baby. It should not be weak, because then it is not effective, and it should not be excessively strong, stressful, since it is known that stress suppresses the immune system, and we are faced with the opposite task - to strengthen it. You can temper the baby right in the bath. Let him first warm up in warm water, and then you should invite him to play: for example, turn on cold water, and he will substitute his heels and palms. And so at least 3 times. After the last exposure to cold, it is necessary to wrap the child in a sheet and a blanket, hold him, not wiping, but blotting the water, then dress him in night clothes and put him to bed. For a better hardening effect, the procedure should be gradually changed by increasing the time of cold procedures. Subsequently, the child himself begins to demand more cold douches, and often refuses hot water altogether.