Do you hold your newborn baby? Soft babies also need to protect their spine! From a chiropractic point of view, a child’s spine grows faster than the limbs during the first year of life and, as it grows and develops, the spine gradually develops three physiologic curvatures, namely, cervical lordosis thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis. This process is usually completed within one year of age. Therefore, new mothers must pay attention to the posture when holding the child, otherwise it will affect the normal formation of the child’s three physiological curvature of the spine. Specifically, when holding a 1- to 3-month-old baby horizontally, be sure to hold his or her head. Because the neck and back muscles of infants in this age group are not well developed, they can not support the weight of the head for a long time, and if the head hangs in the air, it is easy to hinder the development of cervical vertebrae of infants. The correct posture for holding a child horizontally should be like this: place the child’s head in the crook of your left arm so that your elbow protects the child’s head, your left wrist and left hand protect the child’s back and waist, and then your right arm extends over the child to protect the child’s legs, while your right hand supports the child’s buttocks and waist so that your hands are intertwined to form an important support point just on the child’s buttocks. When holding the child diagonally, it should be noted that the child should be tilted upward at a slightly greater angle, but it is not recommended to hold the child vertically too early, otherwise it is easy to affect the development of the child’s spine. Of course, this kind of damage to the child’s spine, at the time is not easy to find, but when the child grows up in the future, the problem will come out. Vertical holding the child’s posture is not suitable for newborns, because the newborn’s head is larger and heavier, accounting for almost a quarter of the weight of the whole body, if a long time to hold the child vertically, it is easy to due to the weight of the child’s head all the weight of the cervical vertebrae on the cervical vertebrae and damage to the cervical spine. In fact, there are two positions to choose from when holding a child vertically: one is to let the child’s back toward you, sitting on your left or right forearm, and then you use the other hand to protect the child’s chest, so that the child’s head and back close to your chest; the other is to let the child face you sitting on your arm, and you use the other hand to support the child’s head, neck and back, so that the child’s chest is close to your chest and shoulders.