The baby downstairs far away from home is almost two months old, before because the weather is unstable, has not been out much, today the weather is warm again, so far away to hold the baby out to play. There is an open space downstairs, everyone will sometimes play below, chat about something, see a new person everyone is more enthusiastic, anxious to teach far away parenting experience.
Maybe everyone was too noisy, and the little baby was woken up, crying, and struggling with her mother's hands. A mother-in-law said: The children are so old, you don't like to hold him like this, just hold them vertically.
Far from being a novice mother, there is no old man at home, listening to this mother-in-law's words, I tried to hold the baby up, but I didn't expect that the baby really didn't cry. The mother-in-law also smiled triumphantly and said: Our twin brothers also hugged each other just after they were born, and you see that they are looking good now.
The lazy mother suddenly remembered that it was indeed Oh, if her baby cried badly when she was a child, as long as she held the baby vertically, and then gently patted the baby's back, the baby would stop crying.
Why do young babies like to hug so much?
In fact, this really has a lot to do with the baby's development.
The baby likes to hold vertically, on the one hand, because the vertical hug can relieve the baby's flatulence, on the other hand, it can open the baby's vision, and the vertical hug can also ease the baby's emotions.
★ Holding it vertically is conducive to the discharge of gastrointestinal gas from the baby, preventing spitting up and relieving the baby's intestinal colic.
We know that because of the development characteristics of the stomach and intestines, the stomach is relatively flat, the baby will easily inhale excess air when feeding or crying, and it is easy to spit up milk, flatulence, intestinal colic, etc. If the baby is serious, the baby will cry more and more.
When holding vertically, the baby's abdomen is pressed on the body of the parents and mothers, which can alleviate the baby's flatulence or abdominal pain to a certain extent, and also prevent the baby from spitting up.
When the baby is very uncomfortable and crying, if you hold the baby upright, the baby will feel very comfortable, so it will not cry.
★ Holding it upright allows the baby to discover a different world, and it is no longer just a large mouth and two nostrils facing a blood basin.
I have read an article before, the content is quite funny, one of the sentences is like this: When the baby is breastfeeding, do you think he likes to play with you? In the baby's eyes, all he saw were two large, coarsely hairy nostrils.
The lazy mother laughed at that time, and said that it was indeed true, when holding the baby horizontally, the baby could only see our blood basin mouth and the two nostrils that had no beauty, and they had to look at it every day.
The point is that we still think that the baby likes it, while feeding the baby while telling jokes, it turns out that the clown is himself. [Cover your face] [Cover your face] [Cover your face]
Vertical hugging is different, although the baby's vision is not good, when it is just born, it can only see 20 ~ 25cm, when it is two months, it can only see 50 ~ 60cm, and when it is three months, it can see about 3 ~ 4m.
But in fact, the baby's sense of light and color is very strong, when holding, although the things to see are not very clear, but the baby can see a lot of things outside the nostrils, as if we found a paradise, it is a different world, the baby's senses have a strong stimulation.
★ Holding it vertically can increase your baby's sense of security and ease your baby's anxiety.
The baby needs a sense of security, although there are many ways to increase the sense of security, vertical hugging is also one of the methods, because when we hold the baby up, the baby's entire body and the parents are tightly together, and the head is also lying on the shoulders of the parents and mothers, warm and safe, which can best alleviate the baby's emotions.
Therefore, proper vertical hugging still has many benefits, no wonder the baby likes to hold vertically so much.
But some people have said that the baby is so small, holding it vertically is easy to hurt the baby's spine, and it is necessary to wait for the baby to be older before it can be held vertically.
How big can the baby hold upright?
Many mothers will say that we have already hugged the baby in the month, and we should hold it vertically when we burp.
Yes, but 1-2 months old baby spine is very soft, muscles do not have strength, if the vertical hug, or the method is not right, the posture is not correct, the time is not good grasp can lead to the baby's muscle strain and spine injury.
So when we burp the baby, although it is also vertically hugged, it attaches great importance to the safety of the baby, and will protect the baby's hips, waist, neck and head at any time.
What's more, when we burp the baby, the vertical hug is temporary, generally not more than 10 minutes, which is to better protect the baby's spine and avoid injury or deformation.
As for when the baby can hold it upright, we can look at these 2 points:
★ Make sure your baby looks up.
If the baby can look up, the baby must be able to support and control his head.
During the month, the baby can look up for a short time, but it is generally only a few seconds, and it can only leave the bed surface about 30 to 45 degrees.
The 2-month-old baby can look up for a longer time, about 30 to 50 seconds, and can also leave the bed surface about 45 to 90 degrees, which means that the baby cannot control his head.
The 3-month-old baby will be able to look up for a while, although it may only be 3 minutes, it may be 10 minutes, but we can also start trying to hold the baby vertically.
But because the baby often looks up in the prone position, which also leads to the development of the baby's hind neck muscles better and faster than the anterior cervical muscles, so even if the three-month-old baby can raise his head normally, if he holds it vertically, the baby will still lean back. At this time, if you hold it vertically, parents still have to be very careful to protect the baby's body.
Wait until the baby is 4 months later, the muscle strength on the neck is better, the head is already very stable, and can control their head to rotate left and right, very free, at this time the baby's head, neck, and torso can also be connected into a straight line, providing a good condition for vertical hugging. However, the baby's back muscle strength is not enough, and parents must support the baby's lower back when holding the baby upright.
After 6 months, the baby is well developed in all aspects and can sit normally, and vertical hugging is not a problem.
However, we usually have more vertical hugs when the baby is three months old, because many babies are already uneasy about the status quo after 3 months, and often struggle to hold it up, and they can't think of it.
Lazy Mom Advice:
When the baby can not fully support his head, we must pay attention to the time not to exceed 10 minutes when holding the baby vertically, and protect the baby's waist, neck and head to avoid injury to the baby.
★ The physiologically curved neck curve of the baby's spine has been formed
When the baby can hold upright, in addition to the baby can look up, the other is that the baby's spine physiologically curved neck curve has been formed, which will provide better conditions for the baby to hold upright.
This is because the spine is not curved when the baby is born, until about 3 months, the baby's frequent head-raising action prompts the cervical vertebrae to convex, forming a physiological curvature of the cervical spine.
Neck bends maintain the muscle balance of the neck, and your baby will support the head better, thus better protecting the head from damage to the skull and brain.
In this way, the baby has quite an extra layer of protection when holding it upright.
However, at any time, we should maintain the correct posture when holding the baby vertically, make sure that the baby's head, neck and spine are on the same level, and also ensure the safety of the baby.
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