The adults who are not conceiving of a dream without soft and convenient pillow often ask a question after the child's birth – and whether the pillow is necessary to the baby? And if it is necessary, then from what age it can be used?
"Dangerous" pillow
Pediatricians warn that the pillow not only is not required to the children who did not reach two-year age, but also can be extremely dangerous. The main danger is the inability of the kid to turn over correctly in a dream that can lead even to a lethal outcome – lying on a pillow facedown, the child can choke. Therefore small children cannot enclose pillows under the head at all, around – they have to have a free space for turning during sleep.
Also use of pillows from early age can lead to a curvature of a children's backbone as at the small child it is still weak and fragile.
The head of the kid in relation to a body is much bigger, than at the adult therefore at turns in a dream it will and lie without pillow absolutely exactly as it is required for a healthy full-fledged sleep. The same touches also a neck of the baby – it does not need in any extras for imaginary comfort of the child. Except smooth and rather soft surface of a bed, small children need no orthopedic head restraints.
Anatomic pillows
Some pediatricians recommend to parents of small children to get for them an anatomic pillow which tilt angle makes about thirty degrees. The main destination of such pillow is contribution to reduction of number of vomiting of the child in the course of a dream as the head of the baby with its help will be located slightly higher than the level of a tummy. The anatomic pillow needs to be enclosed not only under the head of the kid, but also under all his body.
However, instead of such pillow it is possible to raise slightly edges of a children's matrasik who at the same time will not cave in – the effect will be similar to action of "dissecting room".
Whether so there is an advantage of anatomic pillows? In world practice it is called in question, and the evidence of this advantage it is not obtained yet. Use of these devices is possible only on medical indications and only appointed by the local pediatrician knowing all features of the baby. It is expedient to apply a children's pillow since two years. At the same time it has to be executed in a flat form and have the sufficient width that the sleeping child did not slide from it in a dream. Choosing from a good selection of modern pillows, it is necessary to remember that the main objective of a pillow is support of cervical department of a backbone, but not softness under a nape.