Yesterday we started a topic in which we explained that catch the children in arms, take them close to us (above us, basically), is positive for them and recommendable also for us.
After explaining yesterday that taking children in their arms calms them, gives them security, helps them have less colic and less air and helps them adapt to the world they have reached today, we tell you five more reasons to complete the Ten most important advantages of taking children in their arms.
6. They develop seeing the world that dad and mom see
When a child is lying down he only sees the roof (or the sky, if he is in the street). Then, as time goes by, he reclines a little and they can start seeing something. When they go in their arms they see the world of those who carry them, they see what they do, they hear what they say and, in a way, dad and mom become the baby's legs, transporting them everywhere and teaching them to live indirectly, while watching everything the adult does.
I do not know how you have done it with your babies, but taking the child in one arm and doing things with the right (pick up dishes, make food, put washers and dryers, type, talk on the phone, ...) is common in my House.
7. Plagiocephaly is avoided
Plagiocephaly is an alteration in the formation of babies' skulls that makes them literally "chamfered" behind, because of spending too much time lying on their backs. Cases have been increasing since 1992, when all pediatric societies announced that the best position to avoid sudden death was that, face up. When they are little, there is no problem, because the head falls on either side, but when they have a few months they can sleep perfectly looking at the ceiling.
If they are also going too much in the stroller, or if the parents are picking them up little in the stroller, even when they cry (and in the end they just shut up and stay there), They can spend many hours lying down, favoring the appearance of plagiocephaly.
8. They are happier, gain more weight
A few years ago several orphanages were discovered in Romania in which the treatment of children was so bad, so bad, that all they did was give them food. Nobody talked to the children, nobody stimulated them, they did not touch them just, but more or less they did eat. The most logical thing would be to think that, with food, these children would be fairly well in terms of weight and height. If you hurry me, they could even have a good state of health (relatively speaking, of course). The case is that it was observed that even when they ate, they were fatal. They didn't get fat enough, they got much more sick than children who have the warmth of a home and many eventually died.
By this I mean that it has been possible to show that Children who are more touched, caressed and loved are happier, calmer, more stable and gain more weight (There are not too many nerves or too much stress and consequently children do not spend energy on being alert).
9. It helps them sleep
Plan A: Night comes and you get into bed, you are tired of the whole day, with several things in your head and you have trouble falling asleep. You go around, turn on the TV, read a chapter of a book, make yourself a lime and try again until at the end, a while later you get to sleep.
Plan B: Night comes and you get into bed, you are tired of the whole day, with several things in your head and you have trouble falling asleep. Your partner gets on top of you (badly thought) and makes you a relaxing back massage, then caresses your hair and head until you finally fall asleep.
Which one sleeps before? Which one sleeps more calm and relaxed? The truth is that I do not know which one falls asleep before, but if it were me, I would surely fall asleep earlier and more relaxed with plan B.
Babies have plan B, which is to sleep in their arms, near dad or mom, being rocked to sleep, or plan A, which consists of sleeping without anyone's arms, in the crib, bassinet or in the bed.
From what is known about babies and children, who are beings who fight for their survival and who, if they are alone, demand company, it is logical to state that those who are part of plan B, those who are cradled by their parents, will sleep before those who have to fall asleep without the human warmth of their parents.
10. Help mothers and fathers to bond with their children
The touch makes love and, the more you rub, the more love. I do not say with this that the parents who take their children more in their arms love them more than the other parents ... the love of a father is not measured. It is simply that the closer they are to each other the better the relationship, the greater the understanding, the more they know each other and the more kisses they fall.
In the stroller a child hardly receives contact and kisses. In the arms or in a backpack, the caresses are the order of the day, the kisses on the head often fall and, from time to time, when they sleep above all, we can bring our nose to their head to inspire that unmistakable and unrepeatable smell of baby they have
In conclusion
Hold a child in arms It is good, it is beneficial for its development and for its growth, it is logical, because the human being is an animal species that complains if it feels lonely and that it is social by nature (the normal thing is that we live in society, together ... the abnormality is loneliness) and it is not that they get used to arms if you take them a lot, is that if you take them when they ask you, in the end they get used to it, because they want arms and want to be with their parents are already born.
In my house we have it clear (no, not the tuna, the matter of the arms), and Guim spends the day in arms or in foulard. He loves it: he puts some soladas in the foulard that even I would love, and we love it too. The back? On top of the ass and sore, of course, but as the saying goes, "scabies with taste does not itch" and this gives much, much taste of father and mother.
