Should newborns sleep with pillows?

Pillows are very important sleeping tools in people's lives. Pillows can make people sleep in the healthiest and most comfortable posture and help them fall asleep the fastest. Although pillows are good, they are not suitable for everyone. For example, should newborns sleep on pillows? This is an issue that many parents are concerned about. Let’s take a look at the explanation below. I hope everyone can understand it and create a good sleeping environment for newborns.

Under normal circumstances, newborn babies do not need to use pillows because the spine of a newborn is straight and does not have the physiological curvature unique to the adult spine. When a newborn baby lies flat, his back and the back of his head are naturally in the same plane. Therefore, if the newborn does not use a pillow to sleep, he will not suffer from a stiff neck due to tight neck muscles. Moreover, the baby's head is larger and almost the same width as the shoulders, so it is natural and comfortable for the baby to lie on his side. On the contrary, if the head is raised, it will easily cause the head and neck to bend, affecting the breathing and bone growth of the newborn, and may even cause accidents.

Generally, newborn babies are prone to spitting up milk. At this time, you can choose to raise his entire upper body appropriately, or let him sleep on his side.

When the baby is 3 to 5 months old, the cervical spine begins to show forward physiological curvature. In order to maintain the physiological curvature and keep the body comfortable, the height of the baby pillow should be designed to be 1 to 2 cm. At this time, you can fold the towel in half and use it as a pillow for the baby.

When a child is 6 to 8 months old and begins to learn to crawl and sit, his thoracic spine begins to show a physiological curvature backwards, and his shoulders gradually widen. At this time, the child should sleep with a pillow that is 3 to 4 cm thick.

A pillow that is too high or too low is not conducive to its growth and development. Newborns who often sleep with high pillows are prone to hunchbacks. The baby shaping pillows currently on the market are not suitable either, because the skull of a baby is relatively soft, and the fontanelles and skull sutures have not yet completely closed. Long-term use of shaping pillows can easily cause skull deformation, making the head flat, or one side of the face larger and the other smaller, affecting the appearance and even affecting brain development. From this, it can be seen that according to the physiological characteristics and growth and development characteristics of newborns, there is no need to give newborns pillows to sleep, which is in line with the requirements of eugenics.

From the introduction in this article, we can know that newborns cannot use pillows right after birth. There are many harms if babies use pillows at this time, so as a mother, you must know this. Newborns need to use pillows after they are three months old. After that, new mothers must prepare suitable pillows for their babies.