When the nurse sent the newborn baby to your arms, the young mum with great joy, watching this round and soft flesh soft flesh, and does not know how to "hold" the baby.
There are two correct postures to hold newborns: hand lift and wrist hold
Hand lift: Using To jack up the baby's back, neck, head with left hand, to jack up his small buttocks and waist with right hand. This method is more used to pick up the baby from the bed and lay down.
Wrist hold: put the baby's head on the left crook of the arm, the elbow protects baby's head, left wrist and left hand protect back and waist, right arm over the baby's legs, right hand care the baby's buttocks and waist. This approach is more commonly used.
1. Communicate with baby
When parents hold baby, they should interact with baby such as talk, sing, watch your baby with your eyes gently, gently touching, physical contact with your baby. It can stimulate your baby’s brain development. This is the first step to establish emotional, physical and mental development. It is very important for your baby.
Generally, you should hold your baby when she is weak up, and put her on the bed when she is sleeping. Newborns sleep about 20 ~ 22 hours a day. Holding at sleep can interrupt baby’s sleep.
2. Should be close to their parents left chest
Parents hold baby should put baby’s head to close to left chest to allow baby hear the parents heartbeat, which baby has been familiar with. It can make baby easy to calm down.
3. Not vertical hold
When you pick up the baby upright, you will find your baby's neck is weak, head bowed, not vertical. Because the newborn's head takes ¼ of entire length. Vertical holding baby, the baby's head weight gives pressure in the cervical spine. The baby in the ~ 2 months, cervical muscle has not been fully developed, neck muscle weakness, should be prevented the embrace of the incorrect posture of the spinal cord damage. These injuries were not easy to find, but may affect the child's future growth and development.
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