4hw.com.cn: I believe that many parents with babies will be curious about their babies' sleeping posture. Want to know when the baby is small sleeping posture is all strange, what kind of have. Good and high-quality sleep can greatly promote the healthy growth and development of babies, especially for babies just born, we should pay attention to sleep. We should not only give babies a comfortable sleeping environment, but also a comfortable sleeping posture is very important. With a healthy sleeping posture can promote the baby's sleep health, let them grow faster. So which sleeping positions are right for your baby's health? Let's take a look at it with Xiaobian~
Three most common sleeping positions for babies
Sleeping on your back means lying on your back and sleeping on your back, which is the biggest sleeping phase of me.
This sleep posture can relax the muscles of the whole body, which is the least likely to cause pressure on the heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, bladder and other organs of the whole body, but it may also make the relaxed tongue root fall back, so there are doubts about blocking the respiratory tract.
Advantage:
(1) The body has no sense of oppression, natural and healthy.
(2) It is less likely to be covered by quilts and other foreign things to cause suffocation: high safety.
(3) Parents can see at a glance the sleeping state of their baby.
Disadvantages:
(1) For newborns, if there is a snoring phenomenon, breathing will feel more laborious.
(2) When the newborn overflows, it is easy to flow back and block the mouth and nose, and the serious cases lead to aspiration pneumonia.
(3) Head shape is easy to sleep flat, may also affect the face shape.
(4) Because there is no restraint, the baby is less secure.
Exhort:
(1) After feeding, do not immediately let the baby (especially the newborn) lie down to sleep, but first sleep on the right side.
(2) It is suggested to tie up the baby's hands to make him feel safer. (do not bind after full moon to avoid affecting hand development)
(3) It is recommended to use 'supine pillow' (middle sink) to support the baby's undeveloped neck.
Expert lecture
You must listen to the generation that is too long saying: 'sleep well, eat well, the child naturally grows well. "For babies before one year old, eating and sleeping can be said to be the majority of their lives, because they may sleep for 12 to 15 hours a day. After all, how much effect does sleep have on babies? Three yuan experts said: 'sleep well, the child wakes up to greet you with a smile; sleep badly, usually cry to hug. '
So, what kind of sleeping posture should be adopted to make children sleep sweet, healthy and safe? Sanyuan expert can say: 'if the parents don't give a special explanation, I usually sleep on the side of the child. In addition to safety, I will use a pillow to fix the front and back of the child, plus two feet to let him hold a small pillow, so that they can sleep more stably and for a long time. Children who can't turn over, I always use him to move, gently change the other side for him to continue sleeping. '
As for the problem that sleeping on the stomach can shape a better head shape, the experts of Sanyuan can say: 'sleeping on the back is not good-looking, but I think children who have been sleeping on the stomach are too thin on their cheeks and protruding on their forehead, which is not suitable for the beauty of Oriental people. '
As for many mothers, drinking milk is the key to their children's growth. No matter how sweet their children sleep, they wake them up to drink milk. Ternary experts think: 'if it's night, don't wake up the child and let him sleep; if it's day, it depends on whether the child's growth meets the standard. Some premature or obviously skinny children can consider asking him to eat up. Sleep on
To lie on your stomach is to lie on your stomach. It's like a reptile's sleeping position in which the forelegs (hands) are raised and the head is on one side.
This kind of sleep posture has a heavy pressure on the heart, lung, gastrointestinal and bladder organs. If the heart and lung function is not good, such as congenital heart disease, congenital wheezing, or pneumonia, cold, cough, phlegm, and tonsils are particularly swollen, inflamed baby, not suitable for sleeping.
Secondly, some distended babies should not sleep on their stomach, such as congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, duodenal obstruction, congenital megacolon, fetal obstruction, necrotizing enteritis, intussusception or other diseases such as ascites, blood tumor, kidney disease and abdominal mass.
In addition, there are also babies who must sleep on their stomach, such as Robin's syndrome, which is characterized by small chin, large tongue, swallowing and dyspnea, etc. it is uncomfortable to sleep on your back, so you must sleep on your stomach.
Advantage:
(1) It is not easy to overflow milk, which helps to exhaust the baby with flatulence.
(2) Chest close to the bedquilt, the baby has a sense of security, not scared easy to sleep.
(3) The head shape and face shape are slender.
Disadvantages:
(1) For smaller babies (especially newborns), if there is a foreign body blocking the nose and mouth, they may not be able to struggle.
(2) There are many cases of sudden infant death.
(3) It is not easy for parents to observe whether the baby is abnormal.
Exhort:
(1) Don't lie on your stomach until the umbilical cord is dropped.
(2) The baby before the full moon is not recommended to take this sleeping position because he cannot turn his head to the other side.
(3) The bed or pillow should not be too soft. The baby's nose and mouth may fall into it and affect breathing.
(4) Don't let your baby sleep in clothes with protruding buttons.
(5) Just finished drinking milk can first pick the right side to lie down for a while, and then let the baby lie down.
(6) Pillows are recommended to choose those that can really breathe.
(7) It's best not to let your baby sleep when you have a cold or illness.
(8) If it is found that the baby often sleeps on the same side, the parents should help to change the side, otherwise there is the same problem of head shape deviation.
It's easy to die suddenly when you lie down?
The World Health Organization of the United Nations has strongly advocated that newborns should sleep on their stomach. The reason is that taking this posture can increase the activity of the newborn's head, neck and limbs; slight internal pressure can also increase the activity of organs such as heart and lung.
However, the news of sudden death of baby due to lying on the stomach and letting the bedding cover his mouth and nose is heard from time to time.
In fact, the existing data still can not be sure that sleeping on the stomach will cause sudden infant death. However, the incidence of sudden infant death has decreased significantly since the foreign society of Pediatrics suggested that parents should change sleeping on the stomach to sleeping on the back or sleeping on the side. There have been many people in China who advocate sleeping on the stomach, because it can prevent the pneumonia caused by vomiting and choking, and even cause suffocation, and it can eliminate flatulence, and the baby is less likely to be frightened, have a sense of security, and have a more round and convex head shape.
Side sleep, divided into left sleep and right sleep, is the most recommended sleep position for the baby.
This kind of sleeping posture has no excessive pressure on the important organs of the baby, and is also conducive to muscle relaxation. If the newborn has a situation of overflowing milk which does not cause choking into the trachea, so the baby who has just eaten milk and has fallen asleep, it is better to let him sleep on his side.
In addition, babies with respiratory and heart problems, or especially enlarged and inflamed tonsils can sleep on their sides, which helps to discharge phlegm.
Advantage:
(1) Sleeping on the right helps digestion.
(2) Baby's breathing is smooth.
(3) It can reduce choking when spilling or vomiting.
Disadvantages:
(1) It is not easy to maintain this posture for a long time.
(2) For babies who can't turn over, parents should often help to change their posture.
Exhort:
(1) You can make use of large and small pillows or roll large towels into an axial shape, and plug them into the back of your baby and the gap between your body and the mattress to fix your sleeping posture.
(2) Sleeping on the same side for a long time will also make the child's head askew. It's better to turn over every 3-4 hours.
(3) When lying on the left and right sides, be careful not to press the child's ear wheel forward, or the ear wheel will often be folded, which may also cause deformation.
Sleeping position vs head shape
1. Why can the head shape be shaped
Even if the fetus is in the right position, the head position will give birth naturally. Because of the extrusion of the birth canal, the head shape of the newborn will be more or less deformed, usually sharp. The new pediatrician said: 'this may also be a gift from the creator. The baby's skull is composed of multiple skulls. The bone seam of the newborn is not closed yet, so when it passes through the birth canal, it will deform due to pressure, which also means it can recover or be shaped after birth. '
2. The best way to shape your head
Doctors think: 'sleeping posture is the best correction method, usually not by external force correction, because the baby has the instinct of naturally recovering the head shape, parents can only often help to change various sleeping posture. '
It is understood that long-term sleep on the back of the head will lead to flat, long-term sleep on the face will lead to long forehead convex; long-term sleep on the same side will lead to head deflection. Therefore, the beauty of the baby's head depends on the sleeping habits of the baby and whether the parents pay attention to it or not.
3. Master the golden period
4-6 months old is the golden period of baby's head shape. The doctor said: 'usually after 10-12 months old, the head shape will be completely fixed. Parents should master the first 4 months, and transform the baby's head shape with the sleep method of frequently changing posture. If it still cannot be improved after that, they can take the baby to the hospital for consultation with doctors, and consider using the "head shape correction hat / helmet correction" to assist in correction. '
4. Correction of severe head deformation
The doctor explained: 'if the baby produces in the way of vacuum suction or forceps, the following two conditions must be paid special attention to: one is "edema under the scalp", the rate of detumescence is fast, about 1-2 days can subside; Another is "hematoma under the scalp", that is, there is an obvious "long bract angle", the degree of deformation may be more serious, it will take a week or two to three months to recover slowly. '
Through the above introduction, we should now clearly understand that the sleeping posture of the baby is divided into three kinds of side lying, supine and prone sleeping. These three different sleeping postures have their own advantages and disadvantages. In life, it is not that it is good to use a certain kind of sleeping postures for babies. Mothers should adjust their children's correct sleeping postures in time according to the changes of baby's growth, so as to better ensure their sleep health.