Is it advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs?

I still remember that after Happy was born, Happy Grandma and Happy Grandma began to get busy. One is to look at the happy sleeping position at all times and keep him sleeping at all times; One is rushing to make pillows, saying that the baby pillows we bought are too soft, which is not conducive to the shape of the baby's head. In any case, the opinions of the two old people are unprecedented. They both want to sleep with their heads up happily, and they all think that flat heads look good.

At that time, Happy Dad was very depressed, with round head and protruding back. What's wrong with that? Why must it be flattened? What the hell is this? Moreover, many baby care experts say that children should sleep left and right when they are young, and it is not good to sleep in one position. Happy dad watched it online for a long time, but he still thought the round head looked better, but it was too late to say that. With the help of two old people, the happy back of his head was already asleep.

Is it advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs?

Happy dad thinks this is not desirable.

Happy dad thinks that the old people's concept of flat head should go back a long time. For example, at that time, we said that the sky was round, and the ancients often said that "the sky is full of places" is a good appearance. Men's Chinese characters look good, and women's big round faces look good. If your face is very big, you can only sleep on the back of your head when the size of your face is fixed, and then the meat on your face will spread out relatively, which will make your face bigger.

There is also a saying that "you are unfaithful and unjust", which means that if the back of your head is uneven, then you may rebel! And there really is such a thing in history! For example, Wei Yan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was once rejected by Zhuge Liang because of this.

However, all these reasons have passed, and now it is 20 18, and scientific parenting has occupied a dominant position. For babies, it is better to have a round head. Some studies also show that sleeping with the back of the head flat will affect the IQ of babies. Although there is no scientific basis, it sounds scary.

Many parents who let the elderly take care of their children may have encountered the problem of how to let their children sleep. Old people like to keep their children's heads flat, while young parents may have different ideas.

Did you give the baby a flat head?

In some areas of China, the saying that "newborns sleep flat-headed" is widely circulated among the people, which makes many newborns passively accept the "care" of their families at birth.

The only purpose of the so-called "sleeping flat head" is to make the baby's head shape become flat head. It's okay that the headrest is flat, not only flat, but also flat at the back. It's not good to drop it. New mothers often go out to bask in the sun with their full-moon babies. Some people will praise them: "Look at the baby's head, how flat it is, how beautiful it is!" If it is not a flat head, the new mother will be called a lazy mother by acquaintances and watch the children sleep ... In the face of these comments, let's not discuss the feelings of the new mother first.

It is a big misunderstanding to give the baby a "flat head"

"Flat head looks good" is a big misunderstanding. Let's see what the flat head brings to the child.

(flat ct)

These two pictures are the contrast between the appearance of children with flat heads and ct photos. Viewed from the side, it is a beautiful head shape that we often say. The back of the head was artificially "flattened". Compared with what we see through CT scanning, the skull is deformed into a plane. On the surface, there seems to be no problem.

On the other hand, when I look from the top of my head, there is nothing wrong with my appearance. It's easy to draw such a conclusion, but look at the CT photos again. What do you see from above my head? Yes, the fontanelle is wide and inclined. From the observation of the chin net, it seems that there is no problem of flat head, and you can also see the tendency of skew.

Babies with crooked heads are even more unfortunate. The more obvious skull problem will definitely make the grown-up baby face a series of problems in the future: when he is four or five years old, he needs to wear a helmet and protective gear, so it is difficult to wear the helmet of a baby with a crooked head. Even if he wears it, it is not easy to find the right one. When he is older, he will be asked and even laughed at by his classmates. Imagine? How annoying?

In retrospect, I imagine that the statement about "flat head looks good" doesn't tell us why flat head looks good, whether there are other health costs, and even more ridiculous, to what extent is flat head the best? In addition, the statement that "flat head looks good" does not provide measures to ensure that it is normal and safe for children to become flat heads. It is necessary to take cruel measures artificially to flatten the baby's head. If the operation is improper and careless, it will make the head tilt even more regrettable.

The troubles brought to children by sleeping flat-headed

First of all, the newborn has a back of the head in the process of gestation, which is the basic feature that nature endows every new life. However, it is unnatural for newborns to be subjectively transformed by their relatives at birth.

Secondly, the process of "sleeping flat head" must be mandatory, thus depriving newborns of the experience of comfortable sleep. We should know that every newborn will find its own unique comfortable position about 5~6 days after birth, and the process of "sleeping flat" will inevitably interfere with the newborn's demand for comfortable position. For a new life who can only express dissatisfaction with crying, any coercive measures are unnatural and may be counterproductive;

Third, compulsory measures make newborns fidgety. In addition to crying, newborns will try to change their posture, which cannot guarantee that they can sleep directly behind the flat head ... Observing the instinctive posture of the new mother holding the child can explain the most comfortable posture of the newborn: one arm supports the head and neck, the head leans back slightly, and the other hand protects the back and supports the body weight. In the mother's arms, the newborn can rotate its head freely because the headrest is complete.

When the newborn is placed on the flat bed, every careful new mother will find that when the newborn's head is attached to the bed surface, its neck is folded back. When the newborn's body is all on the bed, the angle of the neck is more forward than when the mother holds it, which shows that the lying bed narrows the newborn's respiratory tract. If you want to put something on the newborn's headrest, it will only increase the stenosis of the respiratory tract. Therefore, it is unnatural to give pillows to newborns in advance, which may increase other risks.

Look at the world: the west thinks that the round brain has the largest capacity and the five senses are more three-dimensional

In the west, it is best to have three-dimensional facial features, make the face smaller by sleeping posture, and make the brain as big as possible, because circular objects have the largest volume. Westerners are used to letting babies sleep on their side, and their cheeks are oppressed for a long time, which leads to their sharp faces. From the side, they are more like one? (question mark). In addition, lateral lying can limit the overdevelopment of mandible and prevent large cheeks from forming a big cheek face. In the past, many parents had to let their babies sleep on the big face, which was euphemistically called "Chinese character face". It would be a tragedy to put it on a girl, so there is mandibular surgery. Interestingly, this kind of surgery is basically more common in East Asia.

An American mother's baby's head just fell asleep, and she spent a lot of money on helmet correction. Doctors there pay great attention to this because they are worried that the irregular head shape will affect the five senses.

Tracing back to the source: It turns out that sleeping flat-headed is a habit of Manchu people.

There is a rule that children in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have prominent heads, while most children in the north have to sleep flat. Why? I looked up some information. Found that this is the custom of Manchu.

Manchu is a warlike nation. When a Manchu girl gets married, her family must accompany her with a rocking car as a tool to raise her children. Manchu "gave birth to a full moon and got off the cart." . . It is made of sieve plate, surrounded by two ends, with two holes at each end, perforated with long strips, coated with external paint, hung with bells and the like, and padded with thin plates. Hanging from the beam, three or four feet from the ground, and tying the child with a belt so that it can't move. If you cry, you will be breast-fed. If you don't stop, you will shake it, and you will miss Babri. "This sleeping board is made of pine, 60 cm wide and 25 cm wide. When in use, put a pillow in a wide place, wrap the child with a clip, put it on the sleeping board, and tie it with a rope three times, once on the arm, once on the knee and once on the ankle. The child was fixed upright on the sleeping board. The purpose is to make the upper and lower limbs grow faster and straighter, with good figure and slender body, which is beneficial to bow and shoot arrows when they grow up and has the physique of a soldier. There will be no bowlegs. At the same time, there is a hole on the sleeping board to facilitate urine collection. The pillow is filled with millet, sorghum, mung beans, soybeans and sand. The pillow is very hard, and if it doesn't move for a long time, it will cause the occipital bone to flatten.

With the development of history, the explanation has become a symbol of sleeping flat head, taking flat head as beauty and not being flat as ugliness.

During the formation of the sleeping flat head, the temples on both sides of the head gradually protrude and the eyebrows protrude, which makes the baby's face bigger and full of denominations. Manchu people think that heaven is full, and the pavilion in Fiona Fang style is a lucky face and an official face. This is also the requirement of a nation that is good at fighting for men.

Modern science believes that a single sleeping position is not conducive to lying on your back or side.

If the newborn baby often sleeps on his back in the first three months, the baby's occipital bone will flatten like a board, just like the back of his head has been cut off. If you let your baby lie on his side vertically for a long time, his head will be long and narrow. Therefore, there is no profound knowledge to protect the normal development of baby's head shape. As long as parents often pay attention to the baby's sleeping posture and tilt the left and right sides alternately within a few days, then the baby's head shape will develop normally.

In addition, we should try to avoid using hard pillows, sleeping on your back for a long time and improper use of pillows, forcing the cerebellum to deform the occipital bone, causing damage to the development of the cerebellum, and inhibiting the secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland at the lower end of the cerebellum. The round skull can better protect the brain tissue when it is violently hit. Round things, such as beans and table tennis, will certainly bounce off the ground and have a cushioning effect, while boxes, bricks and tofu will only absorb the impact internally.

I remember one of my aunts came to see me when I was confinement. When she saw me using clothes as a pillow for my daughter, she told me not to sleep the child like this. In the future, the baby's head shape is not good-looking, so it is best to pad the child with a book. She also said that when she gave birth to her cousin, she used a book pad. Now the back of her head is flat. How beautiful! !

In fact, when the baby is born, the skull is very soft, and the skull has not yet reached the position of interconnection. Therefore, before the baby is one and a half years old, his head shape will change because of his different sleeping positions.

Newborns can't move when they sleep. It is too early to fix the baby's head shape at this time. As the baby grows up, he will sleep as comfortably as possible.

Therefore, it is not advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs. Just for beauty, adults can't help the baby's development, which will only increase the baby's discomfort and affect the baby's brain development.

As long as the baby's head circumference is within the normal development index, the size, round or flat head shape will not affect the baby's beauty and intelligence.

Hello, please look at two pictures first about whether the baby sleeps flat or round. Which head do you think looks better down there?

The answer, of course, is that the back of the head is full and beautiful.

The saying about sleeping flat-headed has always been a custom handed down from the older generation, but this custom is really terrible. You can easily find that most people in our generation, especially in rural areas, have flat heads and baby heads. Mothers give their babies a fixed supine sleeping position, so that they can sleep.

Because in ancient times, people thought that if a person's face was full of the style of heaven and Fiona Fang, it was a natural blessing and official material. Therefore, in infancy, let the baby sleep on his back for a long time. In the process of flattening the baby's head, the temples on both sides of the baby's head gradually protrude and the eyebrows protrude, making his face big and round.

The older generation insisted that this flat head was a kind of beauty. In fact, from a scientific point of view, it is a kind of harm and a bad habit to the human body.

This so-called flat head is actually a kind of "deformity".

This process of sleeping with flat head is often accompanied by head tilt and asymmetric deformity. When you grow up, it may also affect your baby's five senses. It may also affect the development of the baby's brain. Because the area responsible for vision in the brain is in the back of the head, the flat head may also compress the optic nerve, leading to vision problems.

More importantly, it may cause the baby to suffocate.

Lying on your back will make the relaxed base of your tongue lean backwards and block the respiratory tract. Adults snore after sleeping, that is, the sound made by the vibration of airflow breaking through the blocked respiratory tract. The newborn's supine sleeping position may also cause the baby to have difficulty breathing and often overflow milk. Overflowing milk in supine state may cause milk to be sucked into organs and lead to suffocation of infants. Therefore, most doctors recommend that newborns lie on their side.

Sleeping on your side will not oppress your baby's organs, but also help your muscles relax. At the same time, babies who are prone to milk overflow are not easy to inhale organs and cause suffocation, so lying on the side is the best sleeping position for babies.

However, sleeping on the side for a long time may lead to asymmetry of the baby's brain type, and pressing one side of the optic nerve for a long time may lead to strabismus. Therefore, it is recommended to turn the sides of the bedroom upside down and let the baby sleep. Of course, when the baby grows up, the phenomenon of spitting milk is reduced. When the baby has certain self-coordination function, he can also lie on his back.

Is it advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs?

Old people often say: "Leave a flat head for the child, so that the child's head shape will look much better in the future." So, what is a flat head? The so-called flat head is to turn the baby's head into a flat head. In our community, mothers often take their full-moon babies out, and some people come to say that the baby's head sleeps well, how flat and beautiful it is! If your baby doesn't sleep on a flat head, others will say, how do you give your child a head shape? Isn't this ugly?

In fact, sleeping flat-headed is a misunderstanding. If children play roller skates when they are four or five years old, it is not easy for a baby with a lopsided head to wear a helmet. Even if he wears it, he can't find the right one, which may cause ridicule from his classmates. In fact, mothers can take a closer look, and the flat head is actually not beautiful. It turns out that the skull at the back is very stiff. In addition, the baby must be forced to sleep on his back, which makes the baby uncomfortable to sleep, thus making the newborn restless and increasing the degree of crying. It is believed in the west that round heads have larger brain capacity and more three-dimensional facial features.

A timetable for getting a good head shape

The first two months are the most critical period for a baby to sleep with a perfect head shape.

When the baby grows up step by step, the hardness of the skull will also increase, the seams will be tight, and the head shape will not change much. About 2 months old at this time.

It's not too late to adjust your head shape after three months.

If the mother finds that the baby's head is asymmetrical after 2 months, it is too late to adjust at this time, so parents don't have to worry too much. The baby's head shape is basically fixed for more than 3 months, and he can fall asleep freely.

Within two years old

Generally speaking, when the baby is one year old to one and a half years old, the front fontanel will be closed. After the baby's front fontanelle is closed, the head shape is fixed and it is difficult to change.

This method is not desirable, but many people will do it, because they think a flat head looks good, especially girls, whose hair is beautiful. When I first gave birth to Dabao, my mother asked me to pad him with books to adjust his head shape, and said that that's what my hometown did.

Why can't you leave the child with a flat head?

When sleeping, lying flat on your head is bound to lie on your back, but for newborns, turning your head after lying on your back will lead to asymmetry in the back of your head and form a partial head, which is not worth the candle. Moreover, the newborn's skull is soft, the fontanel is not completely closed, and the back of the head is flat for a long time, which looks very flat. In fact, the left and right diameter of his head is wider, which makes his face big and wide, forming a pie face.

Related research shows that flat head will lead to the decrease of brain volume and affect children's intellectual development. In this way, it really doesn't do any good to sleep flat.

How should I give my child a haircut?

The correct way is to sleep alternately left and right, and pay attention to alternation every time you feed your baby. After the baby falls asleep, he can adjust his sleeping position. Usually, parents can also use audio toys to attract their babies to turn their heads during the day, and alternate supine, lateral and prone positions. If you have time, you can also give your baby a head massage. At this time, the skull is soft, and the prominent parts can be adjusted by massage to avoid deviation.

In short, it is a good wish for parents to tilt their baby's head, but they can't force the baby to lie flat, which is easy to spit and spill milk and is not conducive to physical development.

I don't think I can sleep well. I gave birth to two, not on purpose. The boss is flat, and the penis is round. From the outside, the boss follows his father and the second follows me. The two children have nothing in common; they both have the same head. It's impossible to see a mother give birth to them. Just a few dicks habitually lean to the left, and the left head is bigger than the right head, and they are all flat. It took me more than a month to find out. I was scared. I was afraid of forming. After three months, it slowly grew back, and the head became round again, and it was not biased. The child is small, and his bones are soft. After three or four months, he is still influenced by the outside world. He really feels that his flat head is not good-looking, so he must be corrected quickly. However, both of you can't start, so it is estimated that your efforts have been in vain. Genes are very important.

1. People think that "Fiona Fang is full of days" is a kind of good luck, and the Chinese character face is more in line with this kind of luck.

Before the Republic of China, both men and women wore pigtails, but their heads were flat and they looked good with their hair. And this aesthetic has also influenced the older generation.

3. Some old people say that the girl's head is flat and her braids are beautiful.

In short, some old people just think that sleeping flat head is good and beautiful.

Some mothers worry that sleeping flat head will affect the baby's brain development and worry that it will affect the baby's intelligence. In fact, sleeping with a flat head will not affect the baby's intelligence, but it does affect the baby's appearance. Our faces were flat. If we sleep with a flat head again, we will have no three-dimensional sense at all. The only reason not to sleep flat on the baby's head is because it looks ugly.

If there are still old people at home who insist on leaving a flat head for their babies, mothers can insist. Flat head is out of fashion now. Why do you sleep so ugly when you are beautiful?

When my family was just born, the old man at home said that the children should flatten the back of their heads, saying that the back of their heads was flat and beautiful. I ignored it and let the children sleep by themselves. The back of their heads is a little convex, but it's natural. Facts have proved that I did the right thing, because I later found that many children slept with their heads flat, and their faces were particularly large. When they saw that the back of their heads suddenly disappeared, they were flat and ugly from the side. In the past, it was often said that girls wore braids horizontally at the back of their heads, but now little girls don't like their flat-headed spoons. I remember that there is news abroad that the brain spoon is too flat, which is a disease and needs to be corrected. Just remember to change the direction when the child sleeps, and don't sleep off center, which is also ugly.

I don't think this is desirable. Generally, the old people in the family have a flat head and a big face. In the future, they will have the idea of being an official (as my mother-in-law said) and deliberately let the baby sleep flat. In fact, this is very bad.

The baby is not feeling well. I have seen someone put a thick book on a baby's pillow to give him a flat head. It looks uncomfortable, cold and hard. I don't know what it is, but I still think it is quite smart. In fact, newborns don't need pillows, just fold them with soft towels.

A round head looks better than a flat head. Just look at this photo.

Not conducive to the baby's health. Good-looking is the second, and the important thing is that it is not good for brain development. Newborns' brains develop rapidly and need more and more space. Deliberately let the baby sleep flat-headed, and the space has shrunk. Can it still develop? It will affect the baby's brain development, which is not good for health.

You can tell the old people the pros and cons, stand firm and let the children make their own decisions.