Nowadays you can often hear that someone does not swaddle a child, arguing that it is not necessary to injure a child by swaddling. Shops selling clothes for children are full of different sliders, ryazhonkami, diapers and socks. The invention of disposable diapers - diapers has further exacerbated this issue. Why swaddle a baby, if you can put on a diaper and a beautiful, bright suit?
Consider all the pros and cons of the diapers.
"Behind". In favor of swaddling are advocates of conservative views. They believe that the swaddled child is as close to the conditions in the womb as possible. In the last months of pregnancy within the mother to the future, the little man becomes cramped, he constantly stumbles on the walls of the uterus. Swaddling supports it in the usual conditions and thereby smoothes the transition to our world.
Another argument for "swaddling" helps to reduce the reflex motor activity a little, during which the newborn continually beats itself by the rivers in the face, and if at night it starts to turn violently, it may wake up.
"Against". The opposite side encourages the use of diapers as bed sheets, and does not limit the motor activity necessary for the development of the baby, although his psyche and motor skills develop smoothly without artificial inhibition. In the absence of sufficient muscle activity, the body slows down all processes, the restructuring of internal systems, digestion, and the stability of nerve connections.
With the slogan "movement is life," young parents dress their baby in loose clothes and let him move as they please.
Some doctors also oppose swaddling. Sometimes a baby has a congenital pathology of the hip (dysplasia or subluxation), in this case, a tight swaddling can aggravate this problem, in these cases, a free swaddling is often shown.
Unfortunately, you can not yet see the unity in the ranks of mothers in relation to swaddling, and the children themselves do not ask what they like best. Therefore, each parent decides this question for himself.
Also, many young mothers are simply afraid to damage their baby, because a newborn child seems so fragile. And when swaddling it you need a lot of twisting, and do not squeeze it with a diaper. For them, of course, it is much more convenient to put two or three clothes on it and put it in a crib without shoveling it in a diaper. In addition, the swaddling skill is not developed immediately, but at first, the handle pops up, then the leg, and the child also jerks everything that he can and does not want to lie down quietly.
How correctly to swaddle the baby?
This can be done in two ways: tight and free.
At tight swaddling, two diapers are needed - one thin cotton, and the second is warm, flannel. A warm diaper is put on the table, on it a thin, upper edge of both diapers should be bent by fifteen to twenty centimeters. In the center of the diapers is put your child, so that there would be twenty to thirty centimeters of the diaper from below. The left handle of the baby should lie along the body, and the right side of the diaper covers the baby and is passed between the legs of the baby. The left edge of the diaper is also covered with the baby and taken to the side. The lower edge is taken up and once again wraps the child.
Free swaddling allows the baby to move more, only restrains the turbulence of his movements. In children's clothing stores, you can easily find special "envelopes" that allow you to quickly swaddle a child.
When the coordination of the child's movements becomes more clear from the diapers for the day, you can refuse, wrapping it only for the night, so that the child does not wake up himself.