Leaving a cozy and warm maternal womb, the newborn first perceives the world around him as an alien, aggressive environment. Of course, mother's love and care and interesting adaptations can help him to adapt - cocoons for newborns that will allow the crumb to feel safe.
Envelope-cocoon for newborns
Recently, more and more is said about the dangers of tight swaddling, which our generation was mercilessly subjected to. The children were carefully wrapped up, ostensibly in order not to "wake themselves up" and "level the legs," firmly binding the slightest movements and making them look like soldiers. This simplified the life of parents, but significantly limited the child, making it difficult to learn the world.
Today, if experts recommend swaddling, then only a free, and a wonderful alternative to uncomfortable diapers was a cocoon envelope. Outwardly it looks like a bag made of soft and pleasant to the touch fabric. The baby is warm and comfortable in it, the enveloping sensation of light closeness is similar to that which he remembers from fetal life.
Mom-needlewomen in anticipation of the baby can make knitted cocoons for newborns. It's a great way to express your love and care for a new family member. In addition, this is an unlimited field for creativity, you can experiment endlessly with yarn, patterns and patterns.
In the warm season, instead of a warm cocoon, you can use a diaper for newborns, which can also be sewn by yourself or purchased already ready.
Mattress-cocoon for newborns
The ergonomic cocoon mattress is a wonderful invention of French neonatolons. It is used in the first 3-4 months of a baby's life in order to create conditions for him as close as possible to intrauterine and thereby facilitate the process of adaptation to new conditions of life. A soft and pleasant to the touch mattress takes the form of the body of the child, the pose of the baby becomes grouped during sleep, as the spine is slightly rounded. Thus, the crumb can easily observe what is happening around, touch the face, but at the same time it feels calm and safe.
A mattress-cocoon for children has a number of undeniable advantages:
- the curved position of the body, partially repeating the intrauterine position, reduces the likelihood of intestinal colic;
- reduces the likelihood of muscle tone, which adversely affects the development of the baby;
- significantly reduces the risk of plagiocephaly - a phenomenon where the child's skull from constantly lying in one position becomes flat behind or completely asymmetric. Plagiocephaly is often found in children sleeping on traditional flat mattresses. In the mattress-cocoon, the head of the crumb is slightly elevated and at the same time it can calmly rotate it at its discretion;
- reduces the sense of fear of falling into the void and the frequency of the manifestations of Moro's reflex - the wincing that wakes the child;
- thanks to increased comfort, the baby sleeps calmer and longer.
The mattress of the cocoon should be placed in the crib, the bottom of which is in the lowest position. A child can be in it at any time of the day up to the age when learning how to turn over independently. When used properly
There are three variants of the size of a mattress-cocoon for a newborn:
- 1 size - used in a maternity hospital or hospital and is intended for premature babies;
- 2 size is designed for crumbs weighing up to 2.7 kg. In it, premature babies can be in the neonatology department and full-term babies in the hospital;
- 3 size - the largest, intended for use at home for approximately 4 first months of a child's life.