Clipping Your Baby’s Fingernails
August 6th, 2010, Posted in Product DescriptionWhen my son was a newborn, there were several points that frightened me. Even though I’d been taking care of other people’s babies for a long time, you will find so numerous new experiences when a baby is all yours and with you 24 / 7. I’m pretty calm in a crisis, though, so it wasn’t some of the huge stuff that I worried about like what would I do if he stopped breathing or how would I handle a choking situation. I’d trained for all that. But the nail clippers? I was petrified of those items. I’d sooner have left the small mitts from the hospital on his hands for the rest of his life than risk cutting his tender little fingers.
Obviously I got over myself eventually and started clipping more than just barely visible little slivers. I think this happened around the time he started scratching me while he was nursing and my boobs looked like I’d been breast-feeding a litter of kittens! Some tips I have that saved me a lot of times:
Wait until your baby is asleep to start clipping nails
Constantly use baby nail clippers — they genuinely are just the proper size and also the blade part of regular clippers goes in way too far
Most days, it’s safer and simpler to just use an emery board and file the nails down rather than clipping them
Clip or file proper after a bath when the nails are softer