Than the sleep of a babe on a stomach is dangerous
The main danger for a newborn sleeping onbelly, is the high risk of suffocating in this position. Among infants up to a year though and is not widespread, but nevertheless there is a SIDS - a syndrome of sudden children's death. The reason for the sudden stopping of breathing in outwardly healthy children is still unknown, but doctors have noticed that death often occurs in a dream.
A child who likes to sleep on his stomach is disciplinedand predictable Photo: Getty According to statistics, from SIDS dies from 20 to 30% of children who died in the first year of life. The main factor that increases the probability of "death in the cradle" is the position on the abdomen. So, in the 90s, when pediatricians began recommending mothers to lay babies on their backs, mortality from SIDS in Western Europe and the United States decreased threefold.
The child is sleeping on his stomach: the pluses of the situation
At the same time, pediatricians note that children who are asleepon the abdomen, they quickly start to hold the head. They have less deformed thin bones of the skull and hip joints. In the process of sleep on the abdomen is self-massage, so the baby is easier to escape the gases. As a result, children cry less often from intestinal colic.
A child of up to a year can only sleep on his stomach under the close supervision of mom. Photo: Getty There are other advantages of sleep on the stomach:
- the crumb less waving his hands in a dream, and therefore resting calmer;
- the blood goes to the brain;
- the probability of drowning from regurgitation in a child is minimal.
Knowing all the pros and cons, parents shoulddecide how to sleep a baby. SIDS can be prevented by regularly cleaning the nasal passages from crusts and mucus. The baby should sleep on a hard mattress and without a pillow. Before you put the fed baby in the crib, be sure to hold it upright. So he will spew the air and excess milk. Definitely it is possible for a child to sleep on his stomach after a year. Until this time, it is desirable to put the baby in bed on his side or back. Read further:
