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- Fill up the crib with soft toys
- Leave him to sleep in the car in the infant car seat
- They buy toys not for their age
- Leave the baby alone in the room “for a minute”
- Give him solid food too early
- Warm the bottle in the microwave
- Rocking the baby on the arms
- They drink tea with a baby in their arms
- Ignore postpartum depression
Not all, of course. And not at all out of a desire to harm the baby. Sometimes because of fatigue, sometimes on the machine, sometimes – after listening to “good” advice.
Many mothers-to-be are afraid of harming their newborn baby. “What if I do something wrong, and he suffers,” they think and study textbooks on motherhood, go to courses, read forums. Ideally, the maternal instinct, which normally wakes up in a woman almost immediately after the birth of a baby, should tell her: this is not worth doing. But sometimes moms unknowingly put the baby and even themselves in danger.
Fill up the crib with soft toys
And they immediately put several blankets there – suddenly the baby will freeze. And be sure to have a soft pillow, as without it. And hang a canopy over the bed – so it’s beautiful.
Of course, there is some benefit from a canopy. For example, in the summer, he protects the baby from mosquitoes, hides him from the sun and unnecessary movements of other people in the room. But at the same time, so much dust is hiding in its folds! Of course, you can take it off and wash it every week, but this week the baby will still have time to breathe dust. In addition, there were cases when an unreliable mount broke and fell along with the canopy onto the crib.
Now the pillow. Even the one that is supposedly for babies still raises the baby’s head. This can lead to deformity of the spine. Yes, there are a number of situations where pediatricians insist on a pillow, but this is exactly the case when there are medical indications: for example, constant regurgitation, hyper or decreased tone, orthopedic problems, or abnormal skull formation. But this is rather an exception to the rule.
And pillows, like blankets, stuffed toys and other unnecessary things in the crib, can lead to tragedy. The newborn, entangled in them, suffocates.
Leave him to sleep in the car in the infant car seat
Exceptionally well-meaning. He sleeps so sweetly, and there are so many people in the store and so noisy. Let’s go quickly for groceries, nothing will happen in half an hour.
Will happen! American doctors have calculated that 3 percent of deaths of children from SDA (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) occur in car seats. Weak neck muscles are unable to support the baby’s head in the desired position, and the baby dies from suffocation.
In addition, children die in locked cars every year. Do you know how a car gets hot from the inside? There is simply nothing to breathe – if you leave the car in the sun at a street temperature of 21 degrees, in just 10 minutes the cabin will be 31 degrees. In half an hour – 40 degrees. Such a hot tin can. And the thermoregulation of an infant is not at all the same as that of an adult. It overheats much faster. It will take him five minutes to get heatstroke.
Anything can happen to a car: it is evacuated, stolen, another car can crash into it. And you will not be there at this moment, and you will not be able to protect the child.
They buy toys not for their age
Yes, the long-awaited child wants to buy everything and more. Let it develop. But if the packaging says not to give babies up to three years old, then the manufacturer did not warn in vain. As a rule, toys with such markings have small parts. And where will the baby pull them? That’s right, in your mouth! The risk of choking and suffocation in such cases is very high. Therefore, any toy must be checked for strength, nothing can come off, unhook, prick the child, and so on.
Leave the baby alone in the room “for a minute”
No, if in the crib, where – we emphasize – there is nothing superfluous, it is still not so scary. But it is also undesirable. And if on the sofa or, God forbid, the changing table …
A child can fall from a height of one and a half meters and get a concussion, a fracture of the base of the skull. So it is extremely rash to think that a “little bag” who still does not know how to crawl will not be able to fall out.
Give him solid food too early
Neither the chewing apparatus nor the digestive system of babies until about 4-6 months is ready for the food we are used to. The crumbs do not have a swallowing reflex, only a sucking reflex. Therefore, giving him food in pieces at this age is a very strange thing. At best, he will push her out with his tongue – this is another reflex, a protective one. At worst, it will try to swallow, but since all movements in the mouth are not yet coordinated, it will choke. If you really want to let your baby try a real apple or pear (although we would not recommend doing this until 4-5 months), buy a nibbler – this is a mesh or silicone feeding container through which the baby can suck on the fruit, but at the same time it will not bite off his. Yes, our grandmothers knew this method, only instead of a fashionable nibbler they had ordinary gauze.
Warm the bottle in the microwave
And at night, asleep, they also forget to check the temperature of the mixture. A burn of the mouth and esophagus is, you know, very painful. It is best to warm up baby food by placing the bottle in a bowl of hot water. And always, remember, ALWAYS check if the mixture is hot. To do this, you just need to drip from the bottle to the back of your wrist.
Fertile ground for discussion, but we will not argue. A measles epidemic was raging in Europe. Can you imagine: measles in the hospital? And there is only one reason for this – a decrease in herd immunity due to a massive refusal to vaccinate. What’s next? Rubella, which we have officially defeated so far? Tuberculosis? Poliomyelitis? .. “What will you say to your pregnant daughter when she gets rubella? That you don’t believe in vaccinations? ” – a children’s doctor once asked a reasonable question. I don’t even want to imagine such a situation.
Rocking the baby on the arms
No, we are not opposed to you taking the child in your arms. It’s about motion sickness. Sometimes, in an attempt at any cost to calm down a crying baby, parents begin to shake him too intensely. It is not uncommon for children to go to the hospital with injuries after such “motion sickness” – damage the baby’s vertebrae or give him a concussion easier than the lungs. There is even such a term – concussion syndrome.
This method was also used by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Instead of a nipple, the baby was allowed to suck lard or a piece of crumb wrapped in rags. But, excuse me, then the baby was already fed with borscht at 3 months, and they were allowed to scratch the gums with a chicken bone.
It turns out that many mothers do this even now. And without any rags. They say it even relieves unpleasant sensations when a child’s teeth are teething. We will not explain to you now about the immature digestive system, about enzymes, absolute fat and so on. Just listen for yourself. Salo. Instead of. Nipples. Baby. Aren’t you scared?
They drink tea with a baby in their arms
No, mom can be understood, especially if the child is restless. She screams all the time, all the time in her arms. There is no opportunity to eat or wash. You even have to drink tea on the go, with a crumb together. But imagine for a second that the child jerked violently and suddenly burst into tears. And you absolutely accidentally knocked over a mug of hot drink on yourself and on him. The burns will be very severe.
A strange trend came to us from Western stars. Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and even Tom Cruise all took dried placenta in capsules. They say that the placenta contains many biologically active substances, amino acids and enzymes that are not in the body of an adult. It is not for nothing that in mammals the female always eats the afterbirth.
But! In 2015, scientists first denied the placenta’s ability to relieve women of postpartum depression, and then completely proved its harm. And not for mommy, but for her baby, whom she breastfeeds. After all, the placenta is, in fact, waste.
“Putative nutrients such as iron, selenium and zinc are not present in the placenta in sufficient quantities, but heavy metals accumulate in it,” says Alex Farr, gynecologist at the Medical University of Vienna. – Arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, copper and so on. In this case, the placenta is genetically part of the newborn. Eating the placenta borders on cannibalism. “
And the afterbirth animals eat, as it turned out, to cover their tracks and not to attract predators.
In addition, in 2017, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that due to capsules with placenta, babies were regularly infected from mothers with streptococcus agalactia. This was due to the fact that the capsule production technology was violated.
Ignore postpartum depression
It is not very customary for us to talk about this condition. Like, it’s all a whim. Foolishness from doing nothing. Therefore, many mothers are embarrassed to complain and insist that they need help. And regular lack of sleep, hormonal imbalance and accumulating fatigue are doing their job: in a state of postpartum depression, a woman is capable of terrible deeds. And there is no need to talk about the joys of motherhood at all.