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Why do some old people like to tie their children's hands and feet?

Especially many small children sleep with their two legs bent, which is harmful to the child's normal body shape, and many children's rotund legs are developed this way. Fix your child's legs a bit, this will help make them grow straighter. Newborns are extremely soft, and with the soft necks and skulls of newborns, I think it makes sense to wrap them appropriately for safety and cuddling.

Tightly wrapped and tied as usual for three days and three nights, the midwife came back to the baby unwrapped and untied, casually give the baby a bath, in the baby's navel coated with a little bit of red potion, and after that continue to wrap the baby, the baby cried after three days, crying some of the reasons for the cry still do not understand. The baby will be tied again and again for about half a month before being untied and put on a "sweater". Regarding the binding of newborn babies. In fact, my child was born, two legs are not straight, the old man was afraid of her legs, they used a long cloth to the two legs of the layers of the package, said the package for a period of time after the legs will become straight.

The old belief that we need movable door sill when we are young, for fear that our legs will grow crooked, has not yet been confirmed. That's what the older generation thought. That's the way they were. Believe me, the old generation will not harm you. Depending on the season, a child of the month should wear a small garment on the upper body and be naked on the lower body. Upper body two arms should be tied with a pinch, the purpose is, when the child sleeps, in case of a shock arm does not shake, sleep peacefully. Also guard against the baby's fingers scratching the face.

We have a tradition of tying up the child for at least three days after birth, the first is to correct the child does not appear to have a roped leg, the second is to say that the child is not tied up for a few days, will grow up to be very uncontrollable, that is to say, moving around or extra naughty play. Our dialect is called ″make very" kind of naughty children. But the child to increase the sense of security is not the same as binding the legs. To go to the hospital medical examination, the doctor specifically instructed to hold the child when the hand from the middle of the leg to reach through to hold, do not hold on one side, the child is a little bit bigger can be held vertically, so that the child's legs are separated around the waist of the adult.