Massage of a stomach of the newborn – a good and safe way of easing of intestinal gripes. Belly-aches because of intestinal gripes begin to disturb the baby from first weeks of life. Usually, gripes pass by 3 months, but can and will drag on. It is not obligatory to be the professional to carry out massage of a stomach to the baby. It is important to know some principles for its performance. And as a result the intestines vermicular movement amplifies, GAZ cars begin to depart, there passes the lock.
Preliminary preparations for massage
It is necessary to carry out massage of a stomach to the kid on a hungry stomach, before food. Before massage it is better to warm his stomach. It can be done with use of the salt hot-water bottle or a diaper folded in several layers and ironed by the iron. If you use a hot-water bottle, surely wrap up it in a diaper. After that it is possible to start directly massage.
Warm own hands. It is unlikely touches of your cold hands will be pleasant to the kid. In the room it should not be cold too that the kid comfortably felt naked.
Correct technology of massage
Remember that you begin massage always with easy pressings, gradually strengthening them. After each pressing it is necessary to do the calming easy strokings. Thus, you constantly alternate movements to pressing and light touches. It is better to carry out all massage within 5 minutes. Intestines of the kid are located in such a way that all massage movements need to be carried out from left to right or clockwise. You should not press strongly in the field of the right podreberye of the child: there is a liver. This body at newborns very gentle therefore it is not necessary to mass it. And here the area at the left in the bottom of a stomach of the kid can be massed with rather big effort: there is a large intestine, pressings you improve its work. For a start put a hand "lodge" (an internal part of a palm has to look at a navel of the baby) and stroke it clockwise a stomach of the kid. Begin circular motions around area of a navel, gradually increasing a dimeter and covering all surface of a stomach. At first touches have to be lungs, then with the increasing pressing. Carry out easy strokings palm inside, and it is more convenient to do pressings by a palm edge. The stronger pressing is made, the it gives the bigger weakening effect on muscles. You begin and finish circular massage movements with light touches. The following movement – strokings from top to down. Begin them with two hands from edges and conduct hands to inguinal area. Then execute counter strokings: one hand moves down, another – up. P-shaped massage movements are very useful. They are that at first you put a hand on the left side of a stomach of the child and iron from top to down, gradually strengthening pressing. Then you extend the movement, beginning it from the right podreberye on the left, and then down. After that you begin "to draw" the massage movement letter P: you begin in the bottom of a stomach on the right, you conduct a hand up, then to the right and then down.
After massage
After massage, work of intestines amplifies, respectively gases depart easier. To help with it to the child, it is possible to press the child's knees to a stomach and to take them in such state a little. After that execute exercise "bicycle" the newborn's legs, alternately pressing to his stomach that one knee, another. Alternate "bicycle" and exercise to the pressed knees you will not hear yet that gases depart. If the child has gripes, often he inflated a tummy. After massage and bending of legs, swelling considerably decreases, and the kid calms down. Dress the child. You should not "muffle up" strongly him that it did not overheat. Then let's it have a rest a little, having laid out for several minutes on a stomach.