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The ultrasonic signal is fed through the largest - the anterior fontanelle located at the junction of the frontal and parietal bones and usually overgrowing by the year (others are closed on the 2-3rd month). That's why neurosonography is a study designed for newborns and babies. In the first days and weeks of life, many children pass through it. Ultrasound freely passes through the cerebral cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid (ventricles and cisterns), passes through a white substance, but the gray, in particular, the convolutions of the cerebral cortex, as well as the subcortical nodes and vascular plexuses, delays it. But even more significant obstacle for the ultrasonic beam are places of hemorrhage, bleeding (ischemia) of the brain and damage to its cells due to birth trauma, intrauterine infection or hereditary defects that disrupt the correct formation of the child's brain. The sooner they are found, the sooner one can begin treatment and the more fully the central nervous system can recover. Neurosonography does not require any preparation of the child. It lasts a quarter of an hour (the device emits ultrasound only 5-6 seconds - the rest of the time it hears echoes, turning them into pictures) and does not cause the baby discomfort. Is that the gel layer a little cold head, but after the procedure it is immediately removed!
Why the baby can not sleep ...
- Hungry? Fats contained in the mother's milk, act on the crumb as a sleeping pill. By the evening, their content increases, the milk is digested longer, and the feeling of satiety is enough until almost in the morning. Therefore, babies who are breastfed sleep better.
- Few caresses? If you try not to take a crumb on your hands less often, so as not to grow up a sissy, he will miss your affection, and this is a serious reason for a neurosis in such a crumb!
- Overexcited? To stir up the baby can actively communicate with the father returning from work.
- Drowsiness dragged on? Sleeping consists of three periods - drowsiness (attraction to sleep), drowsiness (immersion in sleep) and actually sleep. To drowsiness does not drag on, exclude anything that can break it.
- Calm sleeplessness - so pediatricians call the night vigils of the baby when he wakes up and quietly babbles, plays with what will fall under his arm: a pacifier, his own hands and feet, in a word, he amuses himself and slowly lulls himself. A little wakeful, he will fall asleep.
- Did you get sick? A restless night precedes a cold, intestinal infection, exacerbation of diathesis, teething. If the child frowns, frowns, cries out in a dream, often wakes up and cries - it means that something is wrong with it. Show it to the doctor!
Babies born in the pelvic presentation or in an oblique and transverse position require observation of a neurologist. So birth is more difficult, because they are more likely to encounter asphyxia, birth trauma and perinatal encephalopathy (PEP). With timely treatment, everything will pass in the first months of life, but if you do not deal with neurological problems at once, they will breed new ones, limiting the motor and intellectual capabilities of the child. By the way, Caesar's constant monitoring in the first year is also necessary!