Touching your baby is a very important thing and is a scientific method of health care. What are its benefits? Let's take a look:
Touch can stimulate the baby's lymphatic system, can improve the baby's immunity, so that the ta is less sick.
Tactile stimulation can promote the development of the baby's nervous system, but also cultivate cognitive skills, making the baby smarter.
Touch can protect your baby's skin, make it healthier, and reduce the occurrence of some skin diseases.
Touch can improve the digestive system, increase the baby's appetite, and can relieve flatulence and promote bowel movements. In the same case of breastfeeding, children who do caressing have better weight gain.
The mother's gentle touch can relax the baby's body and mind, calm the baby's emotions, and promote the communication between mother and baby, so that the baby can feel the love of the mother and make the mother-child relationship more intimate.
Touch can stimulate the secretion of "melatonin", help the baby adjust the biological clock, and improve the quality of the baby's sleep.
Touching is conducive to the development of your baby's personality. Babies who have more physical contact with their parents from an early age are more secure and easier to establish a "sense of trust" with others, forming a good personality, such as being more loving and cheerful.
Since the benefits are so many, it is important to learn to touch the baby, and mothers can do it according to the following methods:
Preparation before touching
Start by creating a warm and comfortable environment. When touching, the baby is not wearing clothes, to avoid cold, the general room temperature is controlled at about 28-30 degrees.
Items to prepare are: clean and fluffy towel, baby change of clothes, diaper pad, baby massage oil.
The touch time is generally selected between meals to avoid the baby being too hungry or too full.
First bathe the baby and then touch it, and adults should also wash their hands and do not leave long nails to avoid scratching the baby.
Play some cheerful and soft music, while the mother can talk softly to the baby, paying attention to the surrounding environment and not making a big noise.
Touch phase
Start with your baby's face
Starting from between the eyebrows, the fingers of the two thumbs touch alternately (like walking), and then gently stroke the eyebrows from the center of the eyebrows to the temples, which can stay for a while. The forehead is also caressed from the center to the temple.
chin
With two thumbs, Glide from the center of the chin down the cheek to the base of the ear, like a smiley face, so that the baby's mouth shape is smiling.
head
First, hold your baby's head with your left hand, raise it slightly, and slowly slide your right hand from your forehead to behind your ear and gently press behind your ear. Then change the right hand to hold the head, and the left hand to gently stroke, or the same steps.
chest
The chest should be crossed, with the left hand gently pushing from the left abdomen up to the right shoulder, and the right hand gently pushing from the right abdomen up to the left shoulder, using the index and middle fingers of the finger abdomen in the process, while avoiding the nipple. Then the middle of the sternum is also touched, by two thumbs side by side from top to bottom.
abdomen
Alternate hands and make clockwise rotations around your baby's abdomen. The trajectory of the circle is a circle with an opening downwards.
limbs
Gently pinch your baby's arm from top to bottom, or gently rub it, you can also twist your arm, that is, hold your baby's arm slowly with both hands. Then gently massage the palm of your baby's hand with your thumb, massage the back of your hand with the other four fingers, and gently pinch each finger from the base to the fingertip. The lower limbs are similar to the touch of the upper limbs, gently pinching the legs, massaging the center of the feet, and pinching the fingers of the feet.
back
Turn your baby over, hold one hand on the neck, and press the other hand on the chest, and gently lay down. With the spine as the center, the hands are touched from top to bottom at the same time, using the middle three fingers of the hands to massage, and the downward process is also outward, ensuring that the entire back can be touched. Then gently stroke down the sides of the spine from the top of the head down to the buttocks.
buttocks
Use your fingertips to do a circular slide on your baby's ass, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise.
Precautions
Be sure to touch the baby gently, see how the baby reacts, and stop if you are not happy or crying.
Each stroke should not be repeated too many times, it can start with 5 minutes and then slowly increase to 15-20 minutes.
If your baby's navel has not grown well, you can do no abdominal touch first.