Is it okay for a baby to sleep on his left side?

Generally speaking, babies have different sleeping positions at different stages. Some careful parents have found that sometimes babies like to sleep on their stomachs, sometimes they sleep on their sides, and sometimes they like to sleep lying on their backs. In fact, the baby's sleeping position is very important. If the sleeping position is unreasonable, it will affect the baby's physical health, and in severe cases it may even affect the baby's life safety.

Is it okay for babies to sleep on their left side?

If you sleep on your left side for a long time, your physical development will be affected. For example, the left side of your head and face will be smaller than the right side, affecting the regularity of your facial features. The younger you are and the longer you sleep, the more obvious this situation will be. For normal sleeping positions, proper care should be taken for sleeping on the left side, sleeping on the right side, and sleeping on the back, so as to promote the healthy growth of the baby.

The advantage of letting the baby sleep on his side is that it can relax the muscles, and if vomiting occurs, it can flow out from the corners of the mouth. The best thing is that it can reduce snoring during sleep.

Disadvantages of baby sleeping on his side:

Babies tend to get tired easily if they keep one position lying on their side. If they always sleep on one side, their face will be squeezed and their growth will be uneven. If you sleep with your earlobe pressed down on one side for a long time, the earlobe may become deformed.

Correct sleeping position for baby:

In fact, there are many sleeping positions for babies, such as sleeping on their backs, sleeping on their sides, and sleeping on their stomachs, each of which has its own disadvantages. What we can do is to play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, and avoid sleeping in one position (before the baby can turn over, it is not recommended to sleep on his stomach, as it is easy to suffocate). When the baby cannot turn over, the mother should pay attention to the baby's sleeping position and adjust it every 40 minutes. If the baby is sleeping on his side, the mother should pay attention to switching sides to avoid the harm of head tilt.

Within one year old, parents should help their babies adjust their sleeping positions so that they can develop a sleeping position that suits them. They must pay more attention to it. This way the baby can have a good sleep and a perfect head shape.

What sleeping position is safer for newborns?

Before babies are 15 months old, their head shape is plastic. At this time, parents who care about their baby's head shape must adopt a safe and appropriate sleeping position for their baby.

Sleeping on your back and sleeping on your side are both sleeping positions with higher safety factors, but sleeping on your side is more conducive to the baby's shaping of a good-looking head than sleeping on your back. Sleeping on your back or on your side can effectively prevent your baby from choking on milk, and it also puts less pressure on your baby's body organs. Sleeping on your stomach is the least recommended sleeping position, even if your baby likes it and feels safer doing so. The chance of sudden death of a baby when sleeping on his stomach is much higher than when sleeping on his back or side, and the pressure on the internal organs is also relatively large, so it is not recommended for babies to adopt this sleeping position without supervision.

How to adjust the sleeping position of a newborn

For babies, do not maintain the same sleeping position all the time, as this is not good for their physical development and the shaping of their head and face. Parents can use two towels to adjust their baby's sleeping position without waking them up.

1.Roll one of the two towels into a tube.

2. Roll the other towel into two tubes from both sides, but don't roll them up completely, leave some space in the middle.

3. You can put the baby in the space between the towels in step 2 and fix it with the tubes on both sides.

4. Finally, place the towel in step 1 on the baby’s back to assist in fixation.