Positioner for sleeping

At future mothers, who are actively preparing for the appearance of the baby and study a variety of information, sometimes the head goes around from the abundance of goods offered and various adaptations. And this is not surprising: the store shelves are full of packages with bright, but completely mysterious items: bathing stools, pillows for feeding, positioners for sleeping. How to figure out whether all this is for you and your baby, because many generations of children, including ours, have grown beautifully without these things - new-fangled, but, by the way, expensive.

A positioner for sleeping a newborn - what is it?

The cushion-positioner for newborns is a kind of mattress with rollers and bumps that fix the position of the baby in a dream. Depending on the manufacturer, variations in the number of rollers are possible. As a rule, they are intended for use from birth to 6 months.

Why do we need a positioner for sleep and do we need anything at all?

The experience of using positioners by young parents makes it possible to single out the obvious functional advantages of these devices:

• reduces the risk of a "flat" head;
• prevents the child from turning over on his stomach in a dream;
• the possibility of fixing a child by a positioner for sleep on his side, which is advisable if a child belches in the first months of life - so he definitely will not be able to choke;
• significantly reduces the risk of slipping the baby down the crib and falling out of it;
• It is especially convenient if the child sleeps with parents or on a bed without sides;
• the cushions of the pillow-positioner for sleep create the impression of being in the mother's womb, which is extremely important for the peace and psychological comfort of the baby.

Are the positioners dangerous for sleep?

In recent years, commissions created in the US call for manufacturers to stop sales of positioners, arguing that they increase the risk of suffocation in sleep and the occurrence of the syndrome of sudden death of babies . They explain this by the fact that a child can accidentally turn into an uncomfortable and potentially dangerous situation, which can be altered by the edges and cushions.

There is a rational grain in this, and danger could be taken seriously, if not statistics. It says that in 13 years of monitoring mothers using sleep positioners, 13 child deaths associated with these devices were noted. At the same time, the total number of women monitored has not been indicated, and statistics of injuries and deaths due to, for example, falling out of the crib without a positioner have not been provided.