In recent decades, this type of swaddling of the child, as a wide swaddling, has been recognized and widely spread. Do not confuse it with a loose swaddling (when just enough space is left inside the diaper for free movement of the baby's legs and hands). Wide swaddling is the swaddling of the lower part of the child's body, in which the legs are fixed in a widely diluted state. This method reduces to the laying of a diaper or a special cushion between the legs of the child to ensure their physiologically correct position: in such a swaddling, the legs are bent at the knees and divorced by 60-80 degrees, which corresponds to the natural posture of a stripped, not swaddled child.
You can call a wide swaddling treatment procedure, tk. he is prescribed for dysplasia of the hip joints (congenital pathology of the development of the musculoskeletal system, which occurs in 3% of children). For treatment and prevention in cases of suspected hip dysplasia, a wide swaddling is used from the first days of a child's life and up to 6 months (in some cases up to a year). Wide swaddling as one of the most physiological methods of swaddling can be used in healthy children, without special purpose. Especially convenient is a wide swaddling for moms, who often use slinging.
How to do a wide swaddling?
Currently, there are many devices for wide swaddling. You can use ready-made appliances, sew them yourself or do a wide swaddling with the help of ordinary diapers. The choice of auxiliary materials and proper technique of wide swaddling is left for the young mother. We are here only to make a brief overview of the basic means and methods of wide swaddling so that it is easier for parents to decide on this issue.
- Panties for wide swaddling . Perhaps, the most convenient and beshlopotny method of wide swaddling - with the help of special panties (panties), reminiscent of a normal diaper. They greatly simplify the swaddling procedure, but are inexpensive.
- Pillow of the Dragon . Often in the articles on wide swaddling, one can meet the advice to apply instead of the actual swaddling the so-called Freik pillow - a device that is a rigid bandage, which is laid between the legs of the child and fixed with straps on the shoulders and waist. Different Internet resources will vying to offer you patterns of such a cushion for self-production. However, with this device you need to be extremely cautious: it can only be used for the doctor's prescription and only for mild degree of joint dysplasia. The doctor will determine the allowable time of wearing a pillow, teach the technique of dressing her. In addition, the choice of a pillow of Freik needs to be strictly in size. If the medical recommendations for wearing it are not observed, serious complications are possible: dystrophic processes in the head of the thigh.
- Cover for wide swaddling . To simplify the process of wide swaddling, you can sew a special latching cover made of soft cloth. In the most simplified form, it is a long rectangle (equal in length to two distances from the shoulder to the baby's crotch) with strings (velcro or buttons) on the corners (shoulders) and long sides (at the sides at the waist). If you have a certain skill and desire, you can cut out the neck and side parts, as shown in the figure. Such a cover can be worn over a diaper and sliders, padding between the legs of the child folded in several layers (to make a rectangle 15-20 cm wide) diaper.
- Wide swaddling with 3 diapers . If you decide to master the technique of wide swaddling with ordinary diapers, read a brief description of one of the methods of such swaddling.
Technics of wide swaddling
- prepare and place three diapers on the table, one on top of the other: the first, usual diaper (about 80x120 cm in size), placed vertically, you can bend the top edge by 10 cm; second diaper for wide swaddling -
square (with the side 80-90 cm), it must be folded in a triangle and put it on the first diaper with a right angle down; the third diaper folds several times to form an elongated rectangle 20 cm wide; - put the baby in a disposable diaper on diapers, folded several times a diaper lay between the legs of the child;
- the lateral ends of a triangular folded diaper wrap around the baby's thighs (right - around the right, left - around the left), lower corner throw up, to the level of the navel;
- the remaining diaper tightly, but not tightly, wrap the baby's belly to securely fix the diapers laid between the legs; The lower free edge of this diaper spread, bend upward and fasten the ends, bending behind the upper edge.
