How high a pillow is suitable for a one-year-old baby

When the baby is still one year old, some of the daily necessities he needs to use need to be carefully selected. For example, parents should pay attention to the pillows he often uses. Because for a one-year-old baby, if the pillow is not suitable, it may have some impact on his head shape and development. So here I will introduce to you how high the pillow is suitable for a one-year-old baby.

When the baby is 3 to 4 months old, the cervical spine begins to bend forward, and the baby can sleep with a one-centimeter high pillow. When the baby starts to learn to sit at seven to eight months old, the baby's chest spine begins to bend backwards and the shoulders also grow and widen. At this time, the child should use a pillow about 3 cm high when sleeping. A pillow that is too high or too low is not conducive to sleep and normal body development. Often using a high pillow can easily lead to a hunchback.

In folk culture, newborns are given hard and high pillows (usually made of sorghum rice), which affects the development of the newborn's spine. For the normal development of children, according to the physiological and developmental characteristics of newborns, do not use pillows for newborns.

If the baby's pillow is too high or too low, it will affect breathing and blood circulation in the neck, affecting the quality of sleep and mental state during the day.

So how high is the right pillow for your baby?

This depends on the baby's age and physiological characteristics. For babies in the confinement period, the spine is basically straight and the head is relatively large, almost as wide as the shoulders. When lying flat, the back of the head and the back are in the same plane, so there is no need to use a pillow. You can also fold an adult face washing towel into four and use it as a pillow.

When the baby can lift his head at 3 months old, a protruding cervical curve will appear in the cervical spine. As the body develops, the shoulders gradually become wider. At this time, in order to ensure a proper sleeping position, you should start using a pillow.

The height of a baby's pillow is about 3-4 cm, while that of a child is 6-9 cm.

The baby's pillow should also be of appropriate softness and hardness. A pillow that is too hard can easily cause deformities such as a flat head and a lopsided face, and can also wear off a circle of hair on the back of the head, causing baldness on the back of the head. Parents often mistakenly believe that their baby has rickets; a pillow that is too soft and large can put young babies and newborns at risk of suffocation.

Perhaps many parents may not pay too much attention to the selection of pillows for their babies in life, but if they want their babies to grow up healthily and avoid harm caused by wrong pillows as much as possible, they need to pay attention to the common sense and content introduced above and choose the right pillow for them.