How to hold the child

How to hold the child

In your house there was a miracle – the kid was born! However together with joy also confusion comes, on you a huge number of cares and obligations and also responsibility for health of your treasure lays down. And health, as we know, begins with the correct formation of a backbone, coxofemoral joints.

Therefore, from the first days of appearance of the kid on light you have to take care of the correct arrangement and carrying the child on hands. There are many such ways, but what of them you would not use, it is necessary to remember that the newborn child is not able to do to hold a head yet and therefore it is necessary to take and hold the child so that not to allow a zaprokidyvaniye of his head back, and completely to support a neck and the head. So it is necessary to hold the child the first 2-3 months of life of the kid, not to get stronger cervical muscles yet and he will independently hold a head. Also to you it is not necessary to lift and lower too sharply and quickly the kid, to take the baby one hand or to bring up him for hands as the newborn's joints still too fragile. The correct arrangement and carrying the child on hands consists in safety and comfort of the kid. It is possible to choose such situation which will be pleasant to you and yours the baby. So, eight ways of the correct carrying child.

  • The first way - "column". The child is smoothly lifted on a shoulder in vertical position, holding with one hand a neck and the head, and the second a little body on all backbone and buttocks.
  • The second – on a hip: the kid is seated to themselves on a hip, at the same time inclining its little body forward and holding it under a breast. As the weight of the kid is distributed on your hand, there is no support on a backbone.
  • The third – a face before a breast. The back of the kid nestles on mother's breast, and legs at the same time are bent. In this position the kid can watch surely the events around.
  • Classical way a face to. A head of the baby have on an elbow bend of a hand, and the little body is completely on a hand. This way is good about the first days.
  • The fifth way - a face down. Also as well as in the fourth, the head is on an elbow bend, only a face down, and mother's hand between legs of the kid, supporting a tummy.
  • The sixth – in a pose of Buddha. Legs of the kid take a hand in the field of feet and lead both piles to a tummy. This position is useful to removal of tension in legs and development of coxofemoral joints.
  • The seventh position "from an armpit". This pose forces the kid to lift a head and to consider everything around. The baby is taken a hand under a breast and have at themselves on one side. At the same time a part of weight of the child is the share of mother's hip that does not give an inconvenience it long to carry.
  • And the last pose – on one side "like a Gypsy".

After three months mother can carry the kid in a frog pose a face to herself on the hip. The only condition – carrying needs to be alternated on the left side on right identical quantity.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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