Should parents correct their baby's "surrender" sleeping position?

Parents love their children deeply and take care of them in life. Once their children have any abnormal phenomena, parents will panic and ask for help.

In fact, a large part of it is a normal phenomenon of baby development. Just because parents haven't done enough homework, there will naturally be all kinds of questions.

As we all know, when we sleep, we usually have many postures, such as sleeping on our side, lying on our back, lying flat and so on. When we lie flat, our hands are often placed in the quilt, or our palms are facing our feet and placed on both sides of the quilt.

However, parents with children may find a strange phenomenon, that is, children sleep differently from normal adults when they are young.

When children were young, many of them slept on their backs, with their hands on both sides of their heads and holding two fists, much like a gesture of surrender. Many parents are worried about their children's sleeping posture, fearing that their children will have problems.

There are also parents who worry that their children will catch cold when they sleep like this, because in this sleeping position, their hands are raised above their heads, and the quilt will definitely not be covered. In order to solve parents' worries, today I will tell you about children's "surrender" sleeping position.

Why do children have a "surrendering" sleeping position?

1. Instinctive reaction

We know that when a child is in his mother's body, there are various postures. Sometimes the child is in this posture in his mother's body, which may make the child instinctively pose this posture after unconsciously falling asleep.

There is also the child's self-protection instinct. When a child is born, it is the most vulnerable time. At this time, the child can't bear some excessive blows. Although parents will take care of their children carefully, children may not be aware of external protection, so the body will form the instinct of self-protection.

This kind of sleeping position will play a protective role when the child is young, just like something accidentally covers the child's nose and mouth when the child sleeps, and it is easy for the child to push away those foreign objects to protect himself.

2. Enhance heat dissipation

When the temperature of the human body is too high, the pores of the human body will expand, so that the temperature of the body will be emitted into the air with the expanded pores. This phenomenon often happens after strenuous exercise.

This sleeping position of children is also related to heat dissipation. When children are young, their body temperature will be higher than that of adults, and they are more prone to body heat accumulation than adults. At this time, you need to dissipate heat, especially when you sleep. The temperature of human body will become very low.

Because the human body does less exercise when sleeping, at this time, the body will automatically reduce the loss of energy and lower the body temperature. At this time, in order to keep warm, the quilt will be covered.

However, we know that when we sleep, our body temperature sometimes rises suddenly. In this case, adults will instinctively open the quilt to dissipate heat, while newborn children don't have that much strength, so they will keep this sleeping position to increase the heat dissipation area of the body and enhance heat dissipation.

It can be seen that the child's "surrender" sleeping position is actually not too harmful, so many times parents do not need to correct the child's sleeping position, and the sleeping position will gradually change with the child's age. However, there are a few points that parents should remember.

Several points for attention about children's sleeping posture

1. Don't break the child's hand by force.

Some parents worry that their children will catch a cold with their hands exposed. At this time, some parents may forcibly break their children's arms back into the quilt, which is not desirable. The child's sleeping position is an instinctive sleeping position. The child's body may have become accustomed to this sleeping position, and the muscles instinctively maintain this sleeping position.

At this time, parents may forcibly break the child's arm, which may cause the child's muscle strain. If parents are really worried about their children catching cold, they can wear long-sleeved clothes for their children to sleep.

2. Affect children's sleep quality

As we said above, the child's sleeping position is to enhance heat dissipation. At this time, you break the child's arm back into the quilt, not to mention the muscle strain of the child. After the arm is retracted from the quilt, the child's body temperature may rise, making the child feel uncomfortable, affecting the child's sleep quality, and the sleep quality will also affect the child's growth.

3. Abnormal "surrender" sleeping position

In addition to the normal "surrender" sleeping position, there is also a pathological "surrender" sleeping position with similar posture. This sleeping position is largely due to the increased muscle tension of children. Children in this pathological sleeping position will also behave abnormally at ordinary times, and children will not respond to external stimuli.

Just like a child may show unnatural indifference. At this time, parents should take their children to the hospital for treatment in time to prevent the condition from getting worse.