Bad Nursing Habits Will Hurt Baby Easily

On daily life, parents might get used to adopting their own nursing ways to care baby. But in fact, there are some bad nursing habits they never notice. These bad nursing habits will hurt baby easily. Here we will mention some bad habits as below.

The first bad habit is to shake baby when he is crying.

It is always the first choice for fresh mother to hold her baby in the arm or put in the cradle to shake when the baby cries heavily or cannot sleep well. The more heavily baby cries, the more violently mother shakes the cradle.

So what would be the health risks? As we know, the brain of human is an airtight space which is surrounded with the encephalon fluid around, so that even if the brain suffered external impact, the encephalon fluid may also act as buffer. Appropriate shaking can stimulate the link of cranial nerve and make baby quiet down, but that must be done under the affordable range of the encephalon fluid.

If you over shake baby in long time, especially for baby within 10 months old, it is likely to result in cerebral concussion, cerebral edema, even bleeding in the head skull since the brain will be constantly sloshing in the skull cavity and the immature brain tissue will hit the hard skull directly.

The advice from doctor is that do not coax baby by shaking him. Just hold baby in the arm and let him feel safe when he is crying. Also avoid long term using of the swing bed which is sold on the market.

The second bad habit is to embrace baby when parents are sleeping.

Many mothers often embrace their cute little babies to sleep, in order to avoid an accident during baby sleep or a sense of helplessness when he wakes up at night.

In face, baby will suffer health risks under this circumstance. If the parents are infected with the disease, when they hug their babies to sleep, the mouth-to-mouth breathing would easily bring the bacteria to children. Moreover, hug children to sleep will make them inhale dirty air from the quilt. It is difficult for them to breathe the fresh air and will become ill easily. If mother falls into sleep deeply and presses her child under her body, or blocks the nostrils of child accidently, it is more likely to cause suffocation or other serious consequences.

The advice from doctor is that if parents are really worried about the child, they can sleep with him, but they must remember to keep a distance from him. Do not hug the child tightly. If possible, it is preferred to sleep separately from child. In fact, as long as you take safety measures, the child will not fall from bed or bump. If you worry about that children will feel fear because of darkness, you can install a gentle bed lamp and give children a little light.

The third bad habit is to feed baby right before his bedtime.

Some mothers worry that their children are not full. In order to let the children sleep a little faster; they feed babies milk right before the bedtime.

So what would be the health risks? Breastfeed baby before he is going to sleep will cause decayed milk tooth of baby. The reason is that the secreted amount and the cleansing function of saliva to mouth will reduce during sleep, combined with the long time milk fermentation in the mouth, which will damage the structure of baby teeth easily. In addition, feeding baby before he is going to bed may cause baby choking and cough. Because baby is drinking milk when he is unconscious, the assistance of swallow muscle of mouth is insufficient and cannot protect the trachea mouth effectively.

The advice from doctor is that to avoid the consequences of decayed tooth, parents can give baby some warm boiled water to suck to clean out the remained milk on mouth after breastfeeding. And to avoid the risk of choking and cough, the speed of feeding milk should be controlled appropriately and parents should be patient. Moreover, baby will easily to get choked when he is crying, breathing rapidly or wheezing. Therefore, parents should avoid feeding child while he is crying.

The fourth bad habit is to kiss child or let child kiss you randomly.

Seeing the ruddy and tender little cheek of baby, parents always cannot help to kiss the child, or let child to kiss them. Parents might not believe that this will cause health risks to baby. But it does.

The immunity of baby is low, if parents contact intimately with baby, it will possibly cause baby to infect the disease which parents are suffering from. Flu, mumps, tonsillitis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis and so on will possibly infect children through a kiss. And let children kiss the face of parents will also bring danger to children. Beautiful young mothers are inevitable to prink and when children kiss them, lead, estrogen and spice which contained in the skin care products on mother face will enter into baby body, and cause chronic lead poisoning or sex premature etc.

The advice from the doctor is that it is better not to kiss children when parents cannot grasp the severity of illness. And mothers who are using cosmetic had better not to let children to kiss their face.