text: Sensen Mom
I heard from my colleague that she had just given birth to a baby, and saw her mother-in-law coming with a large bag of luggage. She thought her mother-in-law was very thoughtful, but she saw her mother-in-law bring a cloth slip to tie the baby, saying that it was the custom of leggings, and it was all for the baby's good. After she was born without leggings, she would become a "frog legs"!
In fact, under normal circumstances, the baby's bones will generally not have leg shape problems. As the baby grows up and learns to walk, pay attention to correcting the walking posture problem. Generally, leg shapes are straighter and natural. Without problems, parents do not need to undergo acquired intervention.
1. Is it necessary for newborn babies to gait their legs?
According to research support, swaddling is beneficial to newborn babies. The nerve development of all organs of newborns has not yet been perfected and is sensitive to external sounds. Small decibel sounds can stimulate the baby's hearing. If it is a sleeping baby, it is easy to be stimulated and frightened, causing the baby to cry and feel uneasy.
Secondly, swaddling clothes also protects children's "stretching their arms and legs". At the same time, children wrapped can have a full sense of security. In order to prevent the child's physiological reflex (shock reflex) from causing the quilt to catch a cold, so swaddling clothes are still necessary.
In some areas, there is also the custom of "legging" for confinement babies. It is to tie the baby's legs together with a cloth strip or a blanket, just like artificially straightening and fixing it. It is believed that the baby tied his legs will not have XO legs in the future.
2. Why are babies curled up in a "frog-style" sleeping position?
Regarding the sleeping position of a baby after birth, the biggest influencing factor is that the long-term state of maintaining in the uterus during the pregnancy period is closely related. During the entire pregnancy, the fetus is in the process of growth, and the size of the environment in which the fetus will grow is certain. The limitation of the breeding environment space causes the fetus in the late pregnancy to be in a curled state, with hands wrapped around and legs against the chest curled up, just like a frog.
So after just born, the baby has not been able to "relieve" it, and is still used to curl up. After a while, he has adapted to the restrictions of the outside world, and his limbs are naturally stretched out, and parents do not need to intervene early, correct it, and let it go.
and still accustomed to "curling" babies, if they want to "be tied straight", they will limit the mobility and coordination of both lower limbs, and even affect the blood circulation of both lower limbs .
3. Swabbing is good for children, but refusing to "candle-style" wrap
is also like a "frog-style" baby. Using too tight candle-style wrap can easily cause dislocation of the baby's large joints, hindering the free movement of the limbs, and affecting the development process. It may even involve restriction of chest movement and cause respiratory abnormalities. Some also have abdominal compression, resulting in slowing gastrointestinal peristalsis and reducing digestive function.
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