How to hold a newborn baby, teach you the correct holding posture

When a child is just born, parents definitely want to hug their child, but when holding the child, they must pay attention to the correct holding posture, which is beneficial to the baby's health. At the same time, they also need to pay attention to not holding the baby for too long every day.

The first way to hold

1. Lift the baby's head directly and place it in the elbow.

2. Hold the outer side of the baby's butt with one palm and the inner side with the other palm. Just pick up the baby. This method is most commonly used by mothers.

The second way to hold

1. The mother holds the baby's head with one hand.

2. Use your other hand to support the baby's calf.

3. Place the baby's bottom on the mother's legs

4. Make him face to face with the mother, with his upper body at a certain angle to the mother's legs, but not too upright.

The third way to hold

1. Support the baby's head with one hand and the baby's legs with the other hand.

2. Hold the baby under the mother's armpit.

3. The elbow of the hand that supports the head can support the baby's buttocks (with the help of the strength of the joint).

4. Use your other hand to wash your baby’s hair or provide other care.

Precautions for holding your baby

Newborn babies need 20 hours of sleep a day; babies around 6 months old need about 16 hours of sleep. Therefore, except for special circumstances such as feeding and changing diapers, do not hold the baby too much.

Due to physiological characteristics, the stomach and cardia muscles of infants are relatively relaxed, but the pyloric muscles are very tight. In this case, if the baby is held in the arms and played with after breastfeeding or feeding, food will easily overflow from the cardia and cause vomiting.

Babies' bones grow quickly. If they are held in the arms for a long time, it will be extremely detrimental to the normal growth of their bones. It is necessary to take your baby out to bask in the sun from time to time to enhance his immunity, but the time should not be too long.

Don't hold your baby upright: a newborn's head accounts for 1/4 of its total body length. When holding the baby upright, the weight of the baby's head is entirely on the cervical spine. When the baby is 1-2 months old, the neck muscles are not fully developed and are weak. This incorrect holding posture should be used to prevent damage to the baby's spine. These injuries are not easy to detect at the time, but may affect the child's future growth and development. Therefore, it is not advisable to hold the baby in a straight vertical position.

Don’t hold the child for too long: People’s love for their children reaches an unparalleled level. They don’t kiss or love their children enough, so they start holding the child within a few days of birth. Little do people know that this practice violates the natural laws of infant growth and development and is harmful rather than beneficial to the child.