Well, there you are! Hardly recovering from the happiness of the birth of a long-awaited baby, a young mother immediately gets into the whirlpool of trouble about her child and she is covered with doubts - but can she take care of the baby as needed? And the very first question that arises: how to swaddle a newborn? And do you even need to swaddle newborns?
At present, the very concept of tight swaddling, which our mothers and grandmothers have become accustomed to, has long outlived itself. The disadvantages of this immobilized state of the child have long been known - when a child has the ability to move, he develops faster, better adapts to a new world for him and the perception of his body. In addition, with a tight swaddling associated increased risk of hip dysplasia, muscle dystonia and other possible unpleasant moments in the development of the child. And why follow the obsolete methods and tightly swaddle the newborn, if there is no obvious advantage, but you can exacerbate pathologies that require long and careful treatment, and sometimes even surgery? In such cases, if diapering is necessary according to the indications, the doctors will give exact recommendations on how to swaddle the newborn.
It is up to you to decide whether to swaddle a newborn baby. At present, disposable diapers are available to everyone, so if your baby sleeps quietly, you can do without diapers. To date, there is a huge selection of comfortable and practical clothes for babies, who restrain too active movements. And whether you still need to swaddle your newborn baby or you can do without swaddling - only the baby can help answer this question. Every child from birth is an individual! Everyone reacts differently to the transition from a cozy, but close mother's tummy to a huge world. If the newborn sleeps restlessly, excites itself with sharp movements, then in this case recommend a free swaddling that will help the child to settle in the new space in the first months of life.
How exactly can you swaddle a newborn baby? If the baby throws up the handles in his sleep and wakes them up himself, then we need to find a way in which the handles are swaddled. To do this, for example, put the baby in the middle of the diaper on the wide edge, press the handles against the body and alternately roll the baby with the upper corners of the diaper. Then free the bottom edge wrap up, covering the legs of the child, and angle around the baby around, fixing them to the bottom edge of the diaper. When the child becomes calmer, you can try to leave the handles unenclosed. To understand how to properly swaddle a newborn with free handles, just look at the picture and mentally move the diaper under the armpits. All other actions are similar.
Now consider how to swaddle the newborn into a blanket. Perhaps this is not the easiest way to prepare a child for a walk, but still not completely forgotten and superseded by modern and convenient envelopes.
A dressed or swaddled child is put on a pre-prepared blanket with a corner of natural fabric. Now, thanks to disposable diapers, there is no need to lay an oilcloth between the diaper and the blanket. The head of the child is located below the upper corner of the blanket so that the corner of the blanket can cover the head and face. Then the bottom corner of the blanket is wrapped up, wraps the kid with lateral corners and fixes the swaddling band. Try to keep the child's face open.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in how to swaddle a newborn baby, even if at first glance it seems that this is so. Today it is even easier than in the days of our mothers and grandmothers.
And remember: you can always get detailed and visual explanations of how to swaddle the newborn baby correctly, both in specialists in the hospital and in the children's polyclinic.