With the changes of the times, the public has a more scientific understanding of the care of newborn babies, but the relatively traditional older generation will still have some of their own insistence on parenting experience, which may mislead new mothers, come and see which customs are wrong.
1. Milking the baby's nipple: Because some women will have sunken nipples in adulthood, some parents will milk the nipple for the baby girl, in fact, this is not right, because the baby's skin is delicate, squeezing the nipple will cause nipple inflammation, bring discomfort to the baby, and will also affect the normal parent-child contact between parents and the baby.
2. Candle bags are safer: The older generation often puts the baby's arms close to the torso, straightens the lower limbs together, tightly wraps them in the swaddling, only exposes the head outside, and also binds the swaddling with cloth strips to form a candle shape, that is, a candle bag. This can easily compress the baby's chest and abdomen, affect the baby's breathing and appetite, and also bind the baby's hands and feet, affecting the baby's motor ability development.
3. Newborn babies can not see light: the cell state with visual function on the retina of the newborn baby's eyes is not stable, the tear glands have not yet developed, the cornea is relatively dry, lack of a series of functions to block strong light and protect the retina, so avoid the direct light of strong light, but if the baby is placed in a dark environment for a long time, it is also detrimental to the baby's vision development. Therefore, during confinement, the room should have soft natural light during the day, and the lighting at night should be not dazzling and avoid direct exposure to your baby's eyes.
4. Let the baby sleep on a hard pillow: In order to make the baby's head look better, many elders will let the newborn baby start to sleep on a hard pillow during confinement, which may deform the baby's skull and compress the scalp blood vessels, causing blood circulation disorders. In fact, parents now no longer care about the aesthetic of "flat head", but are more concerned about whether the baby can be healthy.
5. Be light to avoid frightening the baby: Babies in confinement seem to be sensitive to sounds, so novice parents will consciously lower the volume and tiptoe around when taking care of the baby, for fear of making loud noises to scare the baby. In fact, the baby's appearance of being frightened is a very normal reaction, because the baby's nerve myelin sheath is not perfect, and the response to external stimuli is often manifested as a generalized response, so when taking the baby in the confinement, it is completely no problem to make a normal sound, and too much attention to reducing the sound is not conducive to the perfection of the baby's nervous system.