Why this traditional way of caring for a baby, which has been criticized in recent decades, is returning to our everyday life?

Agree, we, mothers, are so pleased when a 5-day-old baby is dressed in a tailcoat or jeans with a shirt, or maybe even in the uniform of dad's favorite football team.! So many possibilities now, how can you remember about diapers? Are we poor? Yes, in no country in the world do they swaddle children anymore! They don’t even sell diapers there... Many modern mothers think so. But where is the truth?

Does the baby need such freedom?

Fewer voices are heard in defense of tight swaddling. And not only tight, but also free, for which Professor I. Arshavsky. And who knows, if he had so many opportunities to beautifully dress a child and “pack” it in a diaper, maybe he would refuse the word “swaddling”? Nevertheless, the topic of swaddling is rising again against the backdrop of global oblivion and an abundance of outfits for newborns.. Maybe we haven't gotten results yet with the refusal to restrict infant freedom.? Or maybe they have not yet received sufficient arguments to completely discard the centuries-old tradition? Rather, both, according to the online edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Do you think the baby is free in the womb in the last month of pregnancy? Not at all free. It is folded there literally in half and tightly embraced by the tissues of the uterus. But not free does not mean bad at all. For the baby, this is a comfortable and safe state.. He is there, in his mother's tummy, acquiring skills for the future life: he learns to breathe, swallow, push with his feet, etc.. And when he is born, the most incomprehensible thing he can feel is the feeling of no boundaries, boundless freedom.. That's when peace leaves him. An open belly will in any case become a danger signal.

Therefore, the newborn will feel good on his mother's chest if you put him on his tummy, or swaddled (of course, also with his mother next to him). He does not yet control the movements of his arms and legs, they " It often happens that the baby wakes himself up or even scares. He lies on his tummy in a frog pose, so his arms and legs do not fly unnecessarily. The same with the hands and feet pressed by the diaper. Baby, swaddled or lying in a frog position, sleeps better. Here we can say that the diaper and the position on the tummy compensate for each other.. It remains to ensure that when the baby grows up and can easily rise from the “lying on the tummy” position, he will understand that he was placed on the stomach just to fall asleep. The diaper is easier - wrapped up and already limited freedom of movement. And if the baby is used to swaddling, then by the end of the procedure, his eyes close by themselves. Therefore, you can swaddle a child only for sleep, if you really do not want to restrict his movements..

When Resistance Is Good But where exactly there is no equal offer to swaddling is in diaper resistance.. Trying to free himself from the diaper, the baby strains his muscles so evenly, so symmetrically that he builds his body, as if he were his own chiropractor. Moreover, static muscle tension works out the baby's body much more than those weak dangling arms and legs that he randomly performs without a diaper.. It is the static tension of a person that reaches the deep muscles, for example, the muscles lining the peritoneum.. And since they are connected with all the ligaments that hold the internal organs, the organs will work more actively.. What does it mean for the baby to have an easier discharge of gases, the outflow of bile, the passage of food through the intestines, etc..

There is another interesting argument: the more the child's body is limited, the more he feels it.. After all, for him, during the neonatal period, this border does not exist: where his body ends, and where the rest of the world begins, he does not understand and does not feel. And to the fact that it has its ending, you still have to come. And when you are constantly in contact with something and trying to escape, this understanding comes much faster..

Such important borders. Now it is important that we, as parents, can correctly build the boundaries of our child's behavior.. After all, I want him to listen to us from the first time, and not after angry shouts; so that he does not cross the line in communicating with adults; so that understanding his place in life gives him the potential to be a good person.

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