Six sleeping positions are harmful to your baby's health. Is your baby sleeping in the correct position?

The first three months after a baby is born are usually spent in sleep. Old people always say that babies who sleep well will grow better. However, many new parents like to hold, hug, or rock their children to sleep. This wrong sleeping position is actually very bad for the baby's health. So what is the correct sleeping position for a newborn?

1. Rocking to sleep

When the baby cries or has trouble sleeping, some young mothers will hold the baby in their arms or rock the baby in a cradle. The harder the baby cries, the harder the mother will rock the baby until the baby falls asleep.

Health hazards: The shaking action will cause the baby's brain to swing constantly in the skull cavity. The immature brain will collide with the harder skull, causing small blood vessels in the brain to rupture, causing "minor concussion syndrome", concussion, and intracranial hemorrhage.

Experts remind: It is worth noting that this method is especially not suitable for babies under 10 months old.

2. Sleeping with others

From the moment your baby is born, you should actively encourage him to fall asleep alone and develop a habit. Even newborns should not sleep in the same bed with their mothers.

Health hazards: If the mother is not careful when sleeping, she may fall on the baby and cause suffocation and death. This is confirmed by a survey data from the United States, that is, letting babies sleep alone can reduce the sudden death rate by 60%.

Experts remind: If the mother sleeps with the baby for a long time, the baby will develop a "mother complex" and it will be difficult for the baby to be separated from the mother when the baby reaches kindergarten or even elementary school age. This will also cause the baby to suffer from school phobia and test anxiety in the future, which will be detrimental to the baby's physical and mental development.

3. Sleeping on your stomach

Experts have found that sudden infant death syndrome is related to sleeping posture, especially sleeping face down, which is the most dangerous.

Health hazards: Infants generally cannot turn over by themselves, and cannot actively avoid obstacles in front of their mouths and noses. Therefore, when their respiratory tract is blocked, they can only absorb very little air and suffer from oxygen deprivation. In addition, their digestive organs are not fully developed. When the stomach moves and the intragastric pressure increases, food will reflux, blocking the already very narrow respiratory tract and causing sudden death of the infant.

Expert advice: According to expert research, the safest sleeping position for babies is sleeping on their backs. This sleeping position can keep the baby's airway unobstructed, thus preventing sudden infant death to a certain extent.

According to statistics, since the supine sleeping method was promoted in the United States, the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome, which was once high, has dropped significantly, from about 5,000 deaths per year to less than 3,000. This is worth learning for mothers.

4. Hug and sleep

Many mothers worry that their babies may have accidents while sleeping, so they often hold their babies in their arms while they sleep. In fact, doing so actually increases the chances of accidents.

This approach has four major hazards:

1. Holding the baby while sleeping makes it difficult for the baby to breathe fresh air, and most of the air he breathes in is the dirty air in the quilt.

2. It is easy for the baby to develop a bad habit of feeding as soon as he wakes up, which will hinder the baby's appetite and digestive function.

3. It limits the baby's freedom of movement during sleep, making it difficult for him to stretch his body and affecting normal blood circulation.

4. If the mother sleeps too deeply, the nipple may accidentally block the baby's nostrils, which may even cause serious consequences such as suffocation.

5. Sleep with the lights on

In order to facilitate nighttime feeding and diaper changing, some young mothers often keep the lights in their baby's bedroom on all night, which has an adverse effect on the baby.

Health hazards: Medical research shows that if babies sleep in an environment with the lights on all night, they may suffer from poor sleep, shortened sleep time, and thus slow down their development. Because the baby's nervous system is still in the development stage and its ability to adapt to environmental changes is poor, keeping the lights on in the bedroom all night will inevitably change the natural law of day light and night darkness that the human body adapts to, thereby affecting the baby's normal metabolism and endangering growth and development.

Experts remind: According to a report by British scholars, 30% of children who turn on a small light in their room when sleeping become myopic, while the incidence of myopia among children whose rooms are brightly lit is as high as 55%.

6. Sleeping naked

When the temperature is high in summer, some mothers let their babies lie naked in bed to keep cool.

Health hazards: Babies have poor temperature regulation function and are prone to catching cold, especially the abdomen. Once the cold is caught, the intestinal motility may be enhanced, leading to diarrhea.

Experts remind: Even in the hot summer, babies should not be allowed to sleep naked. It is best to cover the baby's chest and abdomen with a thin layer of clothing or wear a small belly band to sleep.