Swaddling of the kid – one of the most important procedures for care for it of those which each mom has to be able to do. At first sight, in swaddling of the baby there is nothing difficult. Actually, not to do much harm to recently born little man, it is necessary to do it correctly. Hard swaddling with the straightened legs and the handles extended "on seams" complicates digestion and breath of the baby and also quite often leads to an underdevelopment of his coxofemoral joints. For this reason most of children's doctors advises mothers to do broad swaddling at which the child keeps a pose, natural to it.
Instruction
1. Before starting broad swaddling of the child, find for this purpose the convenient location. It is the simplest to use a special changing table. If that is not available, settle down on a usual table, a wide bed or the mattress covered with a clean diaper.
2. Lay the naked kid on the changing place and put on him in advance prepared baby's undershirt or a jacket. Then take the baby on hands and lay a diaper on a table.
3. The top part of a diaper densely, but not hardly, wrap up around a thorax of the tot at the level of his axillary hollows. Handles of the child have to remain free.
4. Bend one bottom edge of a diaper so that it wrapped one leg baby. By the same principle bend the second bottom edge of a film. It becomes in order that naked legs of the kid did not rub one about another.
5. Wrap up a bottom of a diaper around both legs of the baby so that nothing prevented them to move freely.
6. Wrap one top corner of a diaper under a back of the kid, and thrust other corner into the formed pocket that the diaper did not fly from the tot.
7. There is one more way of broad swaddling – with use of a diaper. Fold the prepared diaper on diagonal in half and place it on a surface for swaddling. The right angle of a diaper has to be sent down, and acute angles – to the parties.
8. Wrap up in the left end of a diaper the left hip of the kid, and the right end – right. Do it, without changing position of stretched legs of the baby. Throw a bottom corner of a diaper up, to the level of a navel of the kid. Such self-made diaper will not allow rubbing of legs of the baby.
9. Further lower bend edge of a big diaper upward to armpits of the child and do broad swaddling in the usual way.