Wen 丨 Forest Mommy
I saw a post shared by a mother on the Internet, her baby was born when the head was particularly pointed, the back of the head is relatively flat, the whole head shape is like the shape of a boat, she affectionately called it "boat-shaped diamond head"...
After 8 months of hard work by this mother, the child finally turned into a beautiful little round head!
It also attaches a whole process plan for her to correct the baby's head shape, a total of three stages, targeted sleeping position adjustment, many mothers give her praise.
Before watching Aya's variety show, she also heard her mention this topic, she also often helped the child turn over when the baby was a child, to prevent the baby from sleeping flat, and the guest next to her looked envious, saying that it was good to have such a careful mother.
In the past, everyone was a popular flat head, and it was necessary to give the child the back of the head to sleep flat, and one of my classmates often joked about the back of his head, tied up the ponytail like a faucet on the wall, and laughed me to death.
The older generation thinks that the flat head is a good-looking head shape, because sleeping the child into a flat head shape can lengthen the child's face shape and become a square Chinese character face, making people feel spiritual, intelligent, and upright, and this "deformed" aesthetic is still left to the present...
Whenever I talk about this topic, I always feel a little sad, because there are still some mothers around me who deliberately sleep flat heads for their babies.
This old era aesthetic is very profound, but modern people no longer need to shave their heads and keep long braids, so this head shape has become obsolete, the flat head shape has not met the contemporary aesthetic, and the flat head type of people will have no three-dimensional sense of hair, especially not good-looking!
Moreover, modern medical research shows that deliberately giving children a flat head to sleep is harmful and unhelpful, because:
The normal shape of the human head is spherical, the baby's head is not fully developed, if you sleep flat head, it will lead to compression of the back part of the skull, hinder the child's mental development, may cause the child's inattention, weak curiosity, slow response, dullness and other symptoms.
If the skull is seriously deformed, it will destroy the brain volume structure and directly affect the intellectual development!
In addition, it will also affect the appearance of the baby, flat head is really not good-looking, flat head type children usually appear to be broader on the front of the head when they grow up, the slope from the top of the head to the forehead is larger, the cheekbones are more prominent, and the mouth will be convex. The entire craniofacial surface protrudes with the degree of flattened head ...
In layman's terms, it is a wide forehead and a big pie face.
In addition to changing the shape of the child's head, the flat head will also bring a series of irreversible effects on the child's nerves, muscles and brains, such as unbalanced development of muscle tissue on both sides of the child's head, mental retardation, damage to the structure of the brain cavity and so on. In addition, the baby's optic nerve is damaged, causing the nerves to be compressed or deformed, resulting in decreased vision, developmental delay, and easier myopia, amblyopia and other eye diseases.
So parents don't think it doesn't matter if the child has a flat head, and must seize the opportunity from an early age to give the baby a good head shape.
So how do you avoid your baby sleeping on a flat head? Or is it to save your baby's flattened head shape after birth?
First of all, the most important point is not to deliberately let the baby sleep into a flat head, and secondly, to give the baby enough sleeping space, to avoid the baby to stay in only one position for a long time, let the baby change the position to sleep, sleep on the left side, sleep on the right side, sleep on the lying down, sleep on the stomach... Adjust the sleeping position more, the baby will not have the phenomenon of sleeping flat head.
Every day, let the baby lie on his stomach, you can lie on the legs of the baby, on the bed, on the carpeted floor, and so on.
Lying down for a while every day not only helps to shape the perfect head shape, but also exercises the baby's ability to look up, crawl, turn over and so on. But pay attention to the need to have adults always accompany the baby, always keep the child safe.
Also, there is the need to use pillows wisely.
Many parents think that the child's flat head is because of the pillow, so they are very resistant to the baby pillow, but in fact, the parents' idea is not right. In fact, the rational use of baby pillows will not only not make the child's head flat, but also help the child's physical development.
However, the child is not suitable for using the baby pillow until three months, because at this stage, the baby's spine has not yet developed curvature, and basically does not need a pillow.
After three months, parents can prepare a baby pillow for their children, starting with a very short height, and then gradually increasing as the child grows. At the same time, to avoid the baby sitting in the baby chair for a long time, the baby's head is leaning in the same place for a long time can easily lead to flat head.
The plasticity of the human head is only about 18 months after birth, and you hot moms especially grasp the golden shaping period of the baby in 1 to 3 months.
In short, there is no need for us to deliberately sleep with a flat head for our children, which is unhealthy and contrary to the current aesthetic. However, if the baby's natural sleeping head shape is difficult to change, the mothers do not have to care too much about the baby's appearance, genes have basically determined the appearance of the child after growing up, what we have to do is to ensure that the child is safe and healthy, and finally wish all the babies can grow up healthy and happy!