15-20 years ago need to swaddle the newborn did not raise any doubts. Trained in it in maternity hospitals and at special courses, and skilled mothers for certain would be indignant if it was offered to them to refuse diapers. Now the situation changed: old traditions consign to the past and provoke a lot of disputes.
It is required to you
- - kidswear;
- - diapers;
- - envelope cocoon:
- - mittens mittens.
Instruction
1. Estimate all arguments in favor of swaddling. Many of them seem today, without exaggeration, absurd. For example, was considered earlier that hard swaddling promotes straightening of legs. Certainly, the shape of legs has nothing in common with diapers: prevention and timely treatment of rickets, massages, gymnastics and the correct footwear will help your child grow healthy and with equal legs. Besides, the senior generation considered that the child in diapers better sleeps. Actually to sleep in one situation without an opportunity to move - not physiologically even for the newborn. The kid can shout only from the fact that to him it is uncomfortable and painful. Swaddling for a quiet dream is justified only in certain cases, for example, if the child too uneasy or has certain neurologic diseases. But even in such situation you can do without diapers (it is correct to swaddle the baby - not the simplest task for young mom), and to give preference to alternative methods.
2. Pay attention to novelties for newborns who serve as an excellent alternative to swaddling. For example, special envelopes for a dream. In them the kid will feel comfortably and comfortably, having at the same time some possibility of the movement in a thing. Envelopes for a dream can be with the opened and closed top: choose in what to the baby most warmly at present years. in the West elastic envelopes cocoons are very popular. They constrain movements of the kid rather hardly, but is much softer in comparison with usual diapers. In a cocoon of the kid turn together with hands, and already inside he accepts the most convenient for himself position.
3. Try to dress the child in a pajamas or overalls, soft, comfortable for it, in the first days of life. You watch that to the kid did not rub anywhere and did not press. That he did not scratch himself in a dream hands, use special mittens. Put the child sideways, under a back enclose the soft roller and cover with an easy blanket. If to the child it is comfortable, he will sleep in such situation, having put hands ahead of himself. Later, when you will begin to put the baby on a back, he will raise hands up and to scatter legs in the parties. Observe the child several days. If he sleeps rather tight, seldom shudders, changes position of a body a little, so swaddling is not necessary for it in general.