It's not easy to have children, and it's even harder to raise them. After all the hardships of pregnancy, childbirth and confinement in October, all the mothers thought they would be liberated from all kinds of anxiety, but the baby's head shape pulled them back into anxiety.
The traditional flat head is not good-looking, so is the big head good-looking?
What is a "sleeping head type"? "Sleeping flat head" is not good-looking, so how to sleep is good-looking?
Should newborns sleep on their side, back or back?
Today, Bian Xiao will take you novice mothers to learn some little knowledge about "newborn sleep" ...
0 1 The reason why the baby has a flat head is not just sleeping outside.
The traditional' sleeping head type' refers to giving the baby a flat head type through human intervention after birth. The custom of "sleeping with a flat head" is still widely spread among the people, especially in some northern areas. Today, some elders still use dictionaries, thick books, hard pillows and other objects to help their babies sleep on their backs.
The' sleeping head type' of scientific parenting thinks that the traditional' sleeping flat head' is a developmental deformity, which is called' flat head syndrome'. The' sleeping head type' of scientific parenting is to prevent the occurrence of' flat head syndrome'.
According to the survey data, about one-fifth of newborns in life have the phenomenon of' flat head syndrome', and this proportion is gradually rising, which means that 20 out of 100 babies have flat heads. Then why is the proportion of flat-headed babies so high?
There are probably three reasons:
Do this on purpose:
First, because the Chinese character face was popular in the previous generation, they thought that the flat head looked good and that the flat head was more prosperous, so they deliberately gave the baby a flat head after birth.
Prevent sudden infant death syndrome?
In order to prevent the baby from sleeping on his stomach or sleeping on his side, causing suffocation and sudden death, parents can let the newborn baby sleep on his back, resulting in flat head.
Caused by pregnancy
If the position of the fetus in the uterus during pregnancy is always a posture, and the head leans against the uterine wall, this is why some mothers say that their babies are born with a flat head.
How to prevent and correct' flat head syndrome'?
If your baby has a flat head, you don't have to worry too much, because' flat head syndrome' will not only affect the baby's brain development, but also have no physiological harm to the baby (don't believe the rumor that some unscrupulous businessmen say that' flat head syndrome' will affect the child's brain development, and their purpose is to promote their own products), and' flat head syndrome' will also change with the baby's age.
Although "flat head syndrome" will gradually improve with the increase of months, in this age of attaching importance to five senses, mothers still hope that their babies can have a good-looking head shape, so preventing "flat head syndrome" has become an anxious problem for many mothers.
What should I do if my baby has slept flat? Can it be corrected?
My baby hasn't slept in a crew cut yet. How to prevent sleeping flat head?
If the baby has passed 18 months, then parents should not be too entangled, because the baby's skull has developed and formed, so be it, except for a little impact on the face value, the others are nothing.
If the baby is still under 18 months, then don't panic, because there is still a chance to correct it.
Mothers can correct themselves by guiding their babies to play on their stomachs, and most babies can correct themselves by playing on their stomachs. However, if the baby's flat head is very serious and less than 4 months old, Ma Bao should not be confused at home. She can take the baby to the hospital for a skull scan and cooperate with the treatment according to the doctor's advice.
Of course, correcting flat head syndrome is not as good as preventing it. According to foreign research, the core of preventing flat head syndrome is' lying time', especially in the first three months after the baby is born.
Which is the best sleeping position for newborns?
Babies before the age of one occupy almost half or even two-thirds of their lives, so how to sleep has become a headache for all mothers. Sleeping on your back is easy to sleep with a flat head, and sleeping on your stomach is afraid that your baby will suffocate. Which is the best sleeping position for newborns?
In fact, regarding this issue, the Master of Education of the University of Pennsylvania, who works for Bright Horizon (one of the largest early education institutions in the United States), has trained on safe sleep for babies. What is the safest sleeping position for a baby? ''
The safest sleeping position provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In this class on "Infant Sleep Safety Training", it is clearly pointed out that the sleeping position shown in the above picture is the "safest" sleeping position provided by the American Pediatric Association. If you have a chance to visit a child care institution in the United States, you will find that this picture has a high appearance rate.
Seeing this, many mothers say that this sleeping position will not cause a flat head? Of course, the answer is yes, so the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies aged 0-3 months should have at least 1 hour of' stomach time' every day.
In fact, the' belly time' mentioned by the American Academy of Pediatrics is the time I mentioned above. Mothers should encourage newborns of 0-3 months to lie on their stomachs and have at least 1 hour of' belly time' every day. Playing on your stomach can not only reduce the flat head caused by sleeping on your stomach, but also be more beneficial to your baby.