What are the sleeping positions for newborns?

The sleeping posture of a newborn is a particularly important aspect, because the correct sleeping posture is not only beneficial to the healthy growth of your child, but also can avoid the occurrence of head tilt, crooked neck, etc. Therefore, many parents are particularly concerned about what are the methods for the sleeping posture of newborns? The following content gives a detailed introduction, which can be fully understood by many parents.

If a newborn baby is often placed on his back to sleep within the first three months after birth, his occipital bone will be flattened like a board, as if the back of his head had been cut off. If a baby is allowed to lie on his side alternately, or vertically, for a long time, his head will become long and narrow. Therefore, there is no profound knowledge in protecting the normal development of the baby's head shape. As long as parents pay attention to the baby's sleeping position, and alternate between left and right sides within three or two days, the baby's head shape will develop normally.

Europeans and Americans often let their babies sleep on their stomachs.

The brain weight of a newborn is about 350 grams, which increases to 600 grams at six months and 900 grams at one year old. It is ossified by six months. The anterior fontanelle closes at 12-16 months, and the posterior fontanelle closes at 2-4 months at the latest. At 3-4 months of fetal development, the brain's sulci have already formed in appearance. At 6-7 months, the superior sulci and convolutions of the brain are already obvious, but are still very simple. An adult human brain has approximately 14 billion cells, and differentiation of these cortical cells has reached its climax. After a child is born, the number of cortical cells no longer increases, and subsequent changes are mainly the gradual maturation and complexity of cell functions. The shape of a baby's head may be long, short, or flat due to sleeping on one side. Defects in human organs will inevitably affect their functions. For example, in the past, women bound their feet, which caused defects in their feet, and their ability to run was subsequently weakened or eliminated. After birth, the growth and development level of newborns in my country generally lags behind that of developed countries because their head bones are not fully developed, their skulls are soft and underdeveloped, and their head care is improper or they are influenced by traditional parenting. The most obvious is the backward newborn care methods, which to a great extent inhibit the child's development.

A large part of a newborn's cerebellum is "lost" during the traditional supine sleeping process. The changes in the appearance of the cerebellum directly affect the development of the entire cerebellum. Some children are short and weak, with a tilted head and a wide forehead, giving them an unhealthy and listless look. Many children cannot walk until they are one year old and have poor balance, which can easily lead to timidity, fear of heights, motion sickness and other problems in the future. This is because long-term supine sleeping and improper use of pillows forcefully compress the cerebellum, causing the occipital bone to deform, resulting in damage to the development of the cerebellum and inhibiting the pituitary gland at the lower end of the cerebellum from secreting growth hormone. Therefore, the head care of newborns should completely change the traditional parenting habits, take our newborn head care as the starting point of baby care, and carry out standardized and scientific care.

Nursing a baby to have a full head shape and allowing it to fully develop according to its appearance at birth is an everlasting value and the most expensive souvenir that parents can give to their children at the beginning of their lives. Because from now on you will always face this head, and its perfect appearance will give you untold amounts of confidence and satisfaction. This is the first good deed a new mother can do for her newborn baby. It takes about 180 days.

The above content has introduced the sleeping position of newborns in detail to many parents. Therefore, for parents, in order to avoid the child’s incorrect sleeping position causing tilted head and crooked neck, which affects the child’s normal growth, after fully understanding the above introduction, you can let your child choose the correct sleeping position when sleeping based on the above introduction.