At that time, happy dad was depressed, with a round head and a prominent 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 one sleeping position is not good. 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 this at this time. The happy back of his head was already asleep with the help of two old people.
Is it advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs?
Happy dad thinks it's not advisable.
Happy dad thinks that the old people's concept of flat head should be traced back a long time ago. For example, at that time, we said that the sky was round, and the ancients often said that "the sky is full of Fiona Fang" is a good look. Men look good with Chinese characters, and women's big round faces look good. If the face is big, you can only sleep on your back when the size of your face is fixed, and then the meat on your face will spread out relatively, and your face will be big.
There is also a saying called "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 the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been rejected by Zhuge Liang because of this.
However, these reasons are all in the past, and now it is 20 18, and scientific parenting has dominated. For the baby, it is best to have a round head, and some studies have said that sleeping with the back of the head flat will affect the baby's IQ. 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 crew cut?
In some parts of our country, the saying that "newborns sleep in a flat head" 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 into a flat head. Just keep the headrest flat, not only flat, but also directly flat at the back. If it falls off, it will be bad. Often, new mothers go out to bask in the sun with their full-moon baby, and some people will boast: "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 a flat head brings to children.
(flat ct)
These two pictures are the comparison between the appearance of a flat-headed child and ct photos. From the side, it is what we often call a beautiful head shape. The back of the head was artificially "flattened". Compared with what we saw through CT scanning, the skull was deformed into a plane. On the surface, there seems to be no problem.
On the other hand, when viewed from the top of the head, there is nothing wrong with the 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 the tendency of skew can be seen.
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 head tilt. Even if he wears it, it is not easy to find the right one. When you are old, you will be asked by your classmates and even laughed at. Imagine? How annoying?
In retrospect, what I imagined about "a flat head looks good" didn't tell us why a flat head looks good, whether it will have other health costs, and even more ridiculous, to what extent is a flat head the best? In addition, the statement that "a flat head looks good" does not provide measures to ensure that it is normal and safe for children to become flat heads. People need to take cruel measures 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 with flat head
First of all, the newborn has a back of the head in the process of gestation, which is the basic feature of every new life endowed by nature. However, it is unnatural for newborns to be subjectively transformed by their relatives at birth.
Secondly, the process of "flat head sleep" 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 only uses crying to express dissatisfaction, any coercive measures are unnatural and may be counterproductive;
Third, compulsory measures make newborns fidgety. In addition to crying, newborns will struggle to change their posture, which does not guarantee that they can sleep directly in the back flat head ... Observing the instinctive posture of a new mother holding her child can explain what posture the newborn is most comfortable: 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, 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 newborns pillows 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 your face smaller by sleeping, and make your brain as big as possible, because circular objects are the largest. Westerners are used to letting babies sleep on their side, their cheeks are oppressed for a long time, and their faces become sharp. 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 with a big face, which was called the face of the Chinese character. If you put it on girls, it would be a tragedy, so there is mandibular surgery. Interestingly, this kind of surgery is basically common in East Asia.
A mother's baby in America just slept flat and spent a lot of money on a helmet correction. Doctors there attach great importance to this because they are worried that irregular head shapes 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 children in the north mostly sleep on their backs. 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 in a rocking car as a child-rearing tool. Manchu "gave birth to a full moon and got off the cart." . . Made of sieve plate, surrounded by two ends, each with two holes, wearing a long belt, coated with external use, 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 to make it unable to move. When you cry, feed. If you don't stop, you'll shake it, and you'll miss Babri. "This sleeping board is made of pine, with a width of 60cm and a width of 25. 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 for the arm, once for the knee and once for 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 figure. When they grow up, they are conducive to archery and archery, and have 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. There are millet, sorghum, mung beans, soybeans and sand in the pillow. The pillow is hard and does not move for a long time, which causes the occipital bone to flatten.
With the development of history, it has become a symbol of sleeping in a flat head, taking a flat head as beauty and not being flat as ugliness.
During the formation of sleeping flat head, temples on both sides of the head gradually protrude and eyebrows protrude, which makes the baby's face bigger and full of denominations. Manchu people think that the heaven is perfect, and the Fiona Fang-style face of the pavilion is a lucky face and an official face. It 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, his occipital bone will be flattened 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 position and tilt alternately in a few days or so, 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 occipital bone of the cerebellum to deform, causing damage to the development of the cerebellum and inhibiting the pituitary gland at the lower end of the cerebellum from secreting growth hormone. The round skull can better protect the brain tissue when it is hit hard. Round things, beans, table tennis, will certainly bounce off the ground with a buffer, while boxes, bricks, tofu and the like will only absorb the impact internally.
I remember when I was confined, one of my aunts came to see me. She saw that I used my clothes as a pillow for my daughter and told me not to sleep for the baby 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 she used a book cushion when she gave birth to her cousin. 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. So 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 try to sleep comfortably.
Therefore, it is not advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs. Just for the sake of beauty, adults can't help the baby's development, but 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 with a flat head or a round head. 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 with a flat head has always been a custom handed down from the older generation, but this custom is really terrible. You can easily find that most of our generation, especially those in rural areas, have flat heads and are infants. The mother gives the baby a fixed supine sleeping position, so as to 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 stand out, and the eyebrows stand out, 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 to the human body and a bad habit.
This so-called flat head is actually a "deformity".
This flat-headed sleeping process is often accompanied by head tilt and asymmetric deformity. It may also affect your baby's facial features when you grow up. It may also affect the development of the baby's brain. Because the area of the brain responsible for vision is in the back of the head, flat head may also oppress 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 back and block the respiratory tract. Adults snore after sleeping, that is, the sound made by the airflow breaking through the blocked respiratory tract and vibrating. Lying on one's back may also cause the baby to have difficulty breathing and often spill milk. Overflow of milk in supine position may cause milk to be sucked into organs, leading to asphyxiation 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 that the two sides of the bedroom be turned upside down to let the baby sleep. Of course, when the baby grows up, the phenomenon of spitting milk decreases, and the baby can also lie on his back when he has certain self-coordination function.
Is it advisable for newborns to sleep on their backs?
Old people often say: "Give your child a flat head, so that the child's head shape will look much better in the future." So, what exactly 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 go out with their full-moon babies, and someone comes to say that the baby's head sleeps well, how flat and beautiful it is! If your baby doesn't sleep flat-headed, others will say, how did you do your baby's hair? Is it ugly?
In fact, sleeping in a flat head is a misunderstanding. If the child plays roller skates when he is four or five years old, it is not easy for the baby with his head tilted to wear a helmet. Even if he wears it, he can't find the right one, which may lead to ridicule from his classmates. In fact, mothers can take a closer look, and the flat head is actually not good-looking. The skull at the back was stiff. In addition, the baby must be forced to sleep on his back, which makes the baby uncomfortable, makes the newborn restless and increases the degree of crying. Westerners believe 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 shape is asymmetrical after 2 months, it is still too late to adjust, 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 sleep freely.
Within 2 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 front fontanel of the baby 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 for girls, who have beautiful hair. When Dabao was born, my mother asked me to pad him with books to adjust his head shape, and said that it was made in my hometown.
Why can't you give the child a flat head?
Sleeping on your back 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, forming a head deviation, which is not worth the candle. Moreover, the newborn's skull is soft, the fontanel has not been completely closed, and the back of the head has been flattened for a long time and looks flat. In fact, the diameter of his head is wider from left to right, which makes his face big and wide, forming a pie face.
Related research shows that a flat head will lead to a decrease in brain volume and affect children's intellectual development. In this way, sleeping with a flat head really doesn't do any good.
How should I give my child a haircut?
The correct way is to sleep alternately from left to right, and pay attention to alternation every time you feed your baby. After the baby falls asleep, he can adjust his sleeping position. At ordinary times, 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 part can be adjusted by massage, so as not to be biased.
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, which 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. In appearance, eldest brother is with his father, and second brother is with 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. Only a few dicks are habitually left-leaning, 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, and he is still influenced by the outside world after three or four months, so he really feels that the flat head is not good-looking, and must be corrected quickly. However, both of you can't make a head start, so it's estimated that your's efforts have been in vain. Genes are very important.
1. thinks that "Fiona Fang is everywhere" is a good omen, and Chinese characters are more in line with this good omen.
2. Before the Republic of China, both men and women wore braids, but their heads were flat and their hair looked good. And this aesthetic has also influenced the older generation.
3. An old man said that girls have flat heads and beautiful braids.
In short, some older people just think it's good to sleep flat.
Some mothers worry that sleeping on your back will affect your baby's brain development and your baby's intelligence. In fact, sleeping with a flat head will not affect the baby's intelligence, but it will really affect the baby's appearance. Our faces were flat. If you sleep with a flat head again, there is 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 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 child sleep by himself. The back of their heads is just a little convex, but it's natural. Facts have proved that I did the right thing, because I later found that many children slept on their backs, 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. It used to be said that girls tied their braids horizontally behind their heads, but now little girls don't like 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 is sleeping, and don't sleep crooked, which is also ugly.
I don't think this is desirable. Generally, it is auspicious for the old people in the family to have a flat head and a big face. In the future, they will live as officials (as my mother-in-law said) and deliberately let the baby sleep flat. Actually, this is very bad.
The baby is not feeling well. I have seen someone put a thick book on the baby's pillow in order to give him a flat head. It looks uncomfortable, cold and hard. I don't know what it is, but I still think it's 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 picture.
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 on his back, and the space has shrunk. Can it still develop well? It affects the baby's brain development and is not good for the body.
You can tell the old people the pros and cons, stand firm and let the children make their own decisions.