"Norbit Baby" teaches you that the bones of newborns are soft and tender. What kind of sleeping position is suitable?

Newborns sleep almost all the time. What kind of sleeping position is good? Mom may hear someone say: sleeping on your back is not good-looking! Spitting milk is easy to choke; Sleeping on your side can easily make your face bigger! The baby is too young to sleep on its side; Sleeping on your stomach can easily suffocate your baby ... which makes your mother very confused. What is the best sleeping position for newborns? Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of various sleeping positions.

Analysis of several common sleeping positions of infants

1. Sleep on your back

Advantages: Usually when the mother sleeps, she is used to letting the baby lie on her back. Because it is convenient to observe the baby's facial expression, it is difficult for the baby to be blocked by foreign objects to avoid suffocation. In addition, this sleeping position can also reduce the pressure on the baby's internal organs and relax the baby's muscles, so it is safer.

Disadvantages: the baby is easy to spit milk, and the spilled milk will accumulate in the throat, which is difficult to spit out from the mouth, and it is easy to choke into the trachea and lungs, causing danger. In addition, because the baby's head has not been shaped, if you always sleep in one direction when lying on your back, it is easy to form a flat head, which will affect the beauty of the head shape.

lie prostrate

Advantages: this sleeping position is most like the baby's state when it is in the mother's body. For babies under the full moon, prone sleeping position is beneficial to the growth and development of chest and lungs, which can improve the baby's vital capacity and promote the development and maturity of respiratory system. Moreover, when you lie prone, your face will face down and your head will not be deformed.

Disadvantages: the baby's chest is close to the bed surface, which is not conducive to heat dissipation. Chest and abdomen are prone to sweating and eczema. This sleeping position is not convenient for limbs to move, and because the face is close to the bedding, it is in danger of suffocation.

lie on one's side

Advantages: this posture helps digestion, keeps the baby breathing smoothly, and can effectively reduce the chance of choking milk when spilling milk or vomiting. Sleeping on the right side can also prevent the heart from being squeezed.

Disadvantages: Because it is difficult for the baby to stay aside for a long time, parents need to help the baby turn over frequently. If you sleep on your side for a long time, it is easy to have asymmetrical development on both sides of your face and oversleep.

How do newborns choose the best sleeping position?

In the theory and practice of neonatal nursing in China, it is generally believed that supine position is the most suitable for neonatal sleep. However, in foreign countries, the lateral position is often used to arrange the newborn's sleep to prevent the newborn from spilling milk, vomiting or aspiration. Babies born within one month are not recommended to lie down.

Babies' heads usually deform when they sleep.

When the newborn is born, keep the posture of the fetus, and the limbs are still bent. In order to make the amniotic fluid and mucus that have been swallowed into the birth canal flow out, you can adopt the right side lying position with your head down, put a small towel on your neck, and change the other side lying position regularly within 24 hours after birth. Otherwise, because the skull seam of the newborn is not completely closed, sleeping on the side for a long time may deform the skull, thus affecting the baby's appearance and appearance.

If the baby often spits milk after eating, take the right side lying position just after feeding to reduce the overflow of milk. Generally, every 4 hours or so, change the newborn's lying position, and be careful not to press the helix forward.

Tips: No matter which sleeping position has advantages and disadvantages, Bao Ma remembers to choose according to their own situation. The best way is to cross several positions and pay attention to being accompanied by parents.