Is it harmful for a baby to sleep with his head tilted? How to correct a baby's tilted head?

Babies have all kinds of strange sleeping positions. Many careful mothers have found that their babies always sleep with their heads tilted. After helping them adjust, they keep tilting their heads back. Will this sleeping position have any impact on me?

It is harmful for babies to sleep with their heads tilted, which may cause their necks to be crooked. If your baby always sleeps with his head tilted to one side, you should pay attention and correct the child's sleeping position as soon as possible. Because this will make the child's head tilted to one side, it will be difficult to recover when he grows up. It can be recovered if it is corrected in time now, and it must be treated actively. Usually, you should pay more attention to the child's sleeping position and correct it in time. Don't always sleep on one side when sleeping. If it still doesn't work, let the child use a shaping pillow, and it will slowly change.

Local massage can relieve the baby's torticollis. The mother can massage the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the relatively hard side of the baby. First, straighten the baby's head, and use the middle fingers of both hands to touch the muscles behind the earlobe line on both sides at the same time, that is, the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and use the middle fingers to continuously rub the harder muscles. It should be noted that whether you rub clockwise or counterclockwise, try to keep one direction and do not change back and forth; without affecting the baby's eating and sleeping, the mother should rub the baby at least 3 times a day, each time for at least 15 minutes, and it will generally be rubbed away in about a month.

Hot towel compress: When the baby is asleep, soak a small square towel in 50℃ water, wring out the water, and apply it to the protruding muscles of the neck. Do this twice a day, 10 minutes each time. You can also use a hot water bottle, but be sure to put a dry towel on the skin. The temperature of the hot water bottle should be around 50℃, and it should feel slightly higher than the skin temperature.

If the baby's head always leans to the left, you can let the baby face the wall on the left side when the baby is lying down. The baby may feel novel about the movement from the right side, which will encourage the baby to turn his head to the right. When playing with the baby, attract the baby's attention by making interesting sounds and various toys that the baby is interested in, and guide the baby to turn his head to the other side.

After the baby can lie prone, let him lie prone on a bed or crawling mat that is not too soft. In addition, when the baby is feeding, use the side that the baby does not like more, and use food to force the baby to turn his head.

1. Some babies will feel a small olive-shaped bag on their neck.

2. Because the head has been tilted to one side for a long time, the head will be slightly asymmetrical, with one side being flatter.

3. When the mother attracts him on one side, he likes to turn his head to look at the baby instead of rolling his eyeballs; and when stimulated on the other side, he will be distressed or act very irritable because he cannot turn his head.

4. When feeding on breast milk, the baby always prefers to feed on one side and resists the other side. 5. The baby always tilts his head to the same side and resists when the head is turned to the other side.

1. The baby is chasing the light

Because the baby's eyesight is not fully developed, it usually feels dim, so the head will consciously turn towards the brighter direction. In this case, mothers will find that their babies always sleep with their faces facing the window, no matter what position they are in before going to bed.

In this case, mothers just need to make sure that their babies sleep in alternating directions, with the head or foot of the bed. In this way, the babies' heads will still face the light, naturally developing their vision, and they will not have only one side of their heads against the window, affecting the development of their skull.

2. The baby's neck is not exercised enough

Generally, after three months, babies can lift their heads. The muscle and bone strength of the neck is already supported. As long as mothers let their babies do appropriate neck exercises, the babies will have a good sleeping posture. If the exercises are not enough, the babies will still sleep crookedly.

3. The baby is used to leaning on the mother's side

Breastfeeding mothers will have this feeling: the baby in their arms seems to sleep more peacefully when it is leaning against the heart. This is because the baby is used to hearing the mother's heartbeat before birth. When the baby can't hear the mother's heartbeat, he will feel uneasy. At this time, if the mother's breath is stronger on one side, the baby will naturally lean against that side and follow the mother's breath. Therefore, in this case, mothers have to work harder and have to sleep on the baby's left side and then switch to the right side from time to time.