How to carry your newborn? If he prefers the vertical position to look at what’s going on around him, he does not hate being placed on his stomach! Here are the different positions and some advice from Aurélia Dubuc, perinatal accompanying person, to adopt them with ease.
There is Different ways of carrying your baby. Some are sometimes more suitable depending on the situations: lengthened in your arms To rock him, help him fall asleep, vertically to allow him to see what’s going on around him, against you to cuddle it or help him make his rot … our advice, in pictures, to Wear your baby in your arms.
Before the age of about 3 months, your baby’s neck muscles are not developed enough to allow him to keep one’s head on your own. At this age, his head weighs heavily in proportion to the rest of his body. “”This is the reason why it is always necessary Hold your head by placing a hand behind your neckwhen we lift it and when we wear it“explains Aurélia Dubuc, perinatal accompanying person and author of the book Girls, I’m pregnant! (Ed. Leduc).
Especially not! Raised thus, a newborn has no control over the rest of his body hanging in the void and it is an unpleasant and uncomfortable feeling for him. When you take a baby in his bed, on her changing table or on his awakening carpet, try to promote the Semi-Arrondie position of his back. While you hold your neck with one hand, your other hand supports its buttocks.
It’s once again A position to be avoided. “”His neck is not yet muscular enough to prevent his head from suddenly going back. Furthermore, this can greatly stretch the ligaments of the elbow and cause subluxation, that is to say a dislocation of the joint“Explains Aurélia Dubuc.
You can Install Baby with Califourchon on your forearm. Place his head in the hollow of your elbow with one hand under his belly and the other which gently massages his back. You can also place his head in one of your hands, the other firmly holding the upper body. “”This position can be very soothing if baby has colic. But as always with children, the best is to test and observe their reactions. Some love it, others do not appreciate at all. And a baby who liked to be in this position may no longer feel comfortable a few days later “advises Aurélia Dubuc.
This is a position most often appreciated by babies. It allows them to see and observe what surrounds them. So hold it against you, on your shoulder. Remember to support the neck and neck with one hand.
You can also Place baby on one of your hips But he must have to have more than three months, Be tonic and know how to hold your head alone. This position has the advantage of allowing you to see in front of you and not solicit your back too much. Just be sure not to place a baby always on the same hip and change aside regularly.
This is about Take the baby in your arms in the elongated position, As if you were going to rock it. Its head must be as always maintained. So wedge his neck in the hollow of your arm, while supporting her back with the other.
For this position, Hold baby sitting on your forearm. Wrap your second arm around his belly and chest or the bottom of his back if he is larger. If you are sitting yourself, put your baby on your thigh. “”In any case, when you move with baby, always be careful not to risk sliding in socks on the stairs, not to take your feet in threads, not to trip on the elder toys and beware of the dark …“, advises Aurélia Dubuc.
