Adequate sleep is good for your child’s growth and development, and the right sleeping posture is good for your child’s sleep quality. Babies can sleep in a variety of strange positions, it is unbearable. But some of the wrong sleeping posture may affect the health of the baby. What is the best sleeping position for your baby? On the choice of what sleeping position, in fact, can not be generalized, supine, side, lying on their own advantages and disadvantages, the best according to the baby’s own situation to. 1, supine This is the safest sleeping position in general. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all healthy infants should sleep in the supine position, whether during naps or at night. Sleeping on the back is especially important for infants under half a year old. There are some claims floating around that infants are more likely to suffocate when lying on their backs than in other positions. In fact there is no evidence to support this view, nor is there any evidence that the supine position is harmful to the health of infants. Infants with GERD should also be placed in the supine position. In special cases, certain infants should still be in a prone position, such as those who have just had back surgery. 2, side lying can give babies a sense of security, because side lying is very much like the position in the mother’s womb; easy to spill milk, vomiting baby recommended to choose the right side of the bed, can prevent choking and accidental sucking; side lying can also reduce the retention of secretions in the throat, so that the baby’s whistling tract is more open. Babies have a higher chance of lying on their side after they learn to turn over on their own. 3, prone In the baby’s awake state, practice prone helps infants shoulder muscles and head control development; lying on the abdomen has some pressure, for the relief of infant colic will have an unexpected effect. But this position is the most dangerous, easy to cause suffocation (especially not suitable for babies under 3 months). Months old baby if always like prone, that may suggest that the baby has indigestion, parents are advised to solve the baby’s indigestion problem. Babies naturally do not always take the prone position to sleep. These sleeping positions make the baby sleep more ugly 1, pillow hand sleep There are many children will like to pillow their small hands to sleep. Sleeping with the hand under the head, or feel more secure, but this sleeping position not only affects blood circulation, but also leads to arm numbness and soreness. Getting up will make your child feel tired and so on, and sometimes it will also make the pressure inside the abdomen rise, which over time will also cause gastroesophageal reflux and harm the esophagus. So when you find your baby sleeping on his own little hand, you should help him pull out his little hand and put it away, with a small pillow for the child to cushion, to help your child change this wrong sleeping position. 2, open mouth to sleep Some mothers will find that children like to sleep with their mouths open whistling, that look especially cute, drooling, but also show a seemingly hungry expression. In fact, sleep open mouth with mouth whistling, not only easy to inhale dust, but also very easy to make the trachea, lungs by the stimulation of cold air, affecting the quality of sleep. Long-term whistling with the mouth, but also damage to the body, and will become ugly! When you find that your child has the bad habit of sleeping with his mouth open to take to the hospital in time to check what the cause is, because of a cold and fever caused by nasal blockage, or rhinitis, tonsillitis or tonsillar hypertrophy caused by the right medicine. 3, sleep with the head covered Some babies like to “sleep with the head covered”, covering the quilt feels safer, in fact, this is not scientific and unhealthy. Sleeping with the quilt covering the head, with the quilt in the carbon dioxide concentration increases, oxygen concentration will continue to decline, over time, it will lead to lack of oxygen, resulting in poor sleep quality, easy to have nightmares, wake up feeling dizzy, weak, lack of energy. When the mother finds the child sleeping with the quilt covering the head, to promptly expose the child’s head, so that the child can whistle to fresh air, do not smothered. 4, blowing the wind to sleep in the summer because of the hot weather, the family like to open the air conditioning, if often blowing the wind to sleep, the neck, back cold susceptible to disease, so sleep should avoid the wind, the bed to maintain a certain distance from the window, door. Warm tip: it is not recommended to take a long-term sleeping position, baby will raise his head and free to turn over after, you can consider allowing the baby to choose a free and comfortable sleeping position. Please remember: lying down to sleep, lying down to play.