02/12/2020
📍Benefits of swaddling القماط لحديثي الولادة :
1. Swaddling may lead to longer, sounder sleep. While a newborn sleeps about 16 hours per day, that sleep is in 3- to 4-hour intervals. Swaddling appears to increase the amount of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep that newborns get. This deeper sleep state may make it less likely for a baby to fully awaken when roused -
2. Swaddling may soothe a crying baby.
3. Swaddling may reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Babies who sleep on their stomachs are at higher risk of SIDS.
📍Risks and drawbacks of swaddling:
1. Swaddling may interfere with beginning breast-feeding. In the precious moments after a baby is born, newborns are often examined, swaddled for warmth, and handed back to Mom so she can work on beginning to breast-feed. But in a small study, researchers noted that babies who got more skin-to-skin contact with Mom within the first 2 hours after birth took to the breast earlier and suckled better at their first feeding when compared to the swaddled newborns.
2. Swaddling may affect a newborn's healthy weight. A delay in breast-feeding may be one reason a swaddled newborn does not put on adequate weight. Another theory is that touch has been shown to stimulate growth, so babies being swaddled may not get the touch they might need for growth.
3. Swaddling may increase risk of hip dysplasiaDDH .