The emergence of a new family member - even if it is always nice, but all the same stress. Young parents will learn a lot: how to feed the baby and put him to sleep, how to bathe the baby, how to care for them, how to deal with a newborn, how to swaddle the baby, and up to what age do it. Initially swaddling may seem very difficult, but the skill comes with experience.

Why swaddle baby

Swaddling very ancient tradition. In the old days, mothers are usually not able to give the baby as much time as now they often had to get to work the next day after delivery. The child is placed in the cradle, where he spent almost all the time it was taken out only at feeding time. Swaddling a baby is significantly limited mobility, and thus saves him from injury: swaddled baby could fall out of the cradle.

Special clothes for babies did not exist before. Children of all ages have grown very rapidly, and the purchase of a large "dowry" for the kid could not afford not every family. The problem is easily solved by using the cradle. The diaper can be wrapped like a newborn, and a much larger year-old kid. In addition, easy to wash diapers. And perepelenat baby is much easier than to change his pants and blouses.

The welfare and well-being of children before anybody especially did not care: in the first place was for the convenience of parents, which was much easier to cope with swaddled babies. In the twentieth century, everything changed: the mother began to think about the comfort of the little ones. Accordingly, there are new arguments in favor of changing mat. Advocates claim that children are accustomed to cramped in the womb, and they like to be swaddled in the first months after birth. What about this thought the children themselves, of course, no one knows, but many parents have noticed that swaddled babies sleep calmly.

But the opinion that due to the taut swaddling the baby will be flat straight legs, absolutely wrong. The reason for the curvature of the legs - rickets, and for the prevention of rickets is absolutely necessary physical activity. Swaddling also reduces the activity, and as a result chances of getting rickets, which causes curvature of the leg raise. And unfounded allegations that the absence of swaddling can lead to curvature of the spine. It is also not confirmed the idea that makes swaddling baby disciplined: at such a tender age about any subject is not out of the question.

It should be noted that to date the traditional tight swaddling declined almost everywhere. If we are children swaddled, then freely without straightening his legs, leaving the handles at least a little freedom of movement.

Swaddling step by step

Traditionally swaddling a baby puts the ass in the diaper folded in several layers of cheesecloth or a thin diaper. Today, opponents of disposable diapers also use this method. Others have parents swaddled baby, pre-wearing disposable diaper on the child.

Swaddle baby with handles should be as follows:

• On the covered thin blanket to put a diaper changing table;
• On top of the diaper put the baby to him reached the edge of the diaper to about the level of the ears;
• If the disposable diaper is not used, then the ass baby is enclosed gauze folded triangle. Its wide end is held between the legs of the child, and the sharp ends of the wrap around the waist;
• The right edge of the diaper wrap the child under the left hand and pull back under the crumbs;
• Similarly proceed with the left edge of the diaper, but it is wrapped over the right handle is already swaddled baby;
• Next step: gently lift the lower edge of the diaper and cover them on top of crumbs;
• Now we just tuck the edges of the diaper under the baby's back.

It is obvious that this method of changing your diapers should be large enough. As a rule, only completely swaddled newborn, after a month of preference more apt way swaddling "with handles":

• Wrap the baby diaper so that it remained free to handle (the edge of the diaper goes under the armpits);
• The lower end of the diaper below baby twist heels once;
• The lower edge of the diaper cover baby on top and secure the ends at the level of the child's armpits.

Free diapering can be applied to three or four months, and it is better to swaddle the child only at night and during the day to give the child more freedom. After three months, it is desirable to gradually abandon swaddling: At this age, children usually begin themselves to protest against such "packaging."

Refusal of swaddling

In some cultures, children never swaddled. For example, the need for swaddling not historically occurred in countries with hot climates, where there was no danger to chill baby. In countries where most of the year is pretty cool, renouncing swaddling began to think that clothing for infants became available. A particularly persistent refusal to swaddling spoke after the appearance of disposable diapers.

The main argument of opponents of changing mat: this procedure is contrary to nature. No animal shroud children. In addition, due to lack of activity of the baby develops a delay (lag, however, fully compensated for two years). Too tight swaddling may impair blood circulation. Finally, many children do not like the swaddling strongly and loudly protest when trying to limit their mobility.

Maria Bykov

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