Every time you go out to wrap your baby, it's like a big battle, you have to be not too tight and uncomfortable, you have to be not too loose and not too often to keep warm.

What is the correct way to swaddle your baby?

Facing a newborn so small and soft, how to hold, how to put, how to keep them safe in their sleep. These questions can make first-time mothers a little overwhelmed.

Probably because there isn't much room for movement when the fetus is in the mother's womb, wrapping it up, especially for the first six months or so. Swaddling will make many babies feel safe, can help them quiet down, reduce crying, as well as ensure that they sleep with their back down and lying down, reducing neonatal sleep accidents (including sudden neonatal death).

Note: Always put the baby down in the supine position and let it sleep. Sleeping on your back is the only safe sleeping position, no sleeping on your side, prone (until the baby will roll over on his own and roll over at night without intervention).

Recommendations for the prevention of sudden neonatal death and sleep accidents.

1. The infant should be allowed to sleep on his or her back from birth, without lying on his or her side and without lying down. This is very important.

2. the baby's head and face must not be covered by anything.

3. a smoke-free environment that includes no exposure to second-hand, third-hand, or fourth-hand smoke.

4. provide a safe sleeping environment, free from all kinds of safety hazards. (Search my Weibo posts with keywords like "safe sleep", "safe", etc.)

5. Let the baby sleep on a separate surface (such as its own cot), in the same room as the parents, until 6 or 12 months later.

6. Breastfeeding the baby.

What are the benefits of wrapping up a baby and what do you need to be aware of?

- Swaddling a baby is a great strategy for quieting him or her down to sleep and lying down, especially during the first six months

- Wrapping it up and placing it on the bed with the back facing down (lying down, on your back) will keep your baby sleeping in a stable lying down position (recommended sleeping position).

- Swaddle babies does not interfere with the digestion and absorption of breast milk and the frequency of breastfeeding, it also effectively decreases their response to pain, and it also facilitates the development of neuromuscular development in premature babies.

- When wrapping the baby, be careful to allow the baby to move freely in the legs and breathe freely in the chest, and make sure that the baby is not wearing too thick, does not cover the head, and does not have an infection or fever before wrapping.

- If the baby is sleeping with an adult, whether in a bed or somewhere else, the baby must not be swaddled. Sleeping together is already unsafe; wrapping up and sleeping together is even more so.

- When you find out that the baby is ready to roll over, especially to sleep on his or her back, there is no need to wrap the baby.

The principle of safe baby swaddling

1. make sure the baby is lying on his or her back with his or her feet at one end of the crib, not the head.

2. ensure that the baby's wrap is below the neck to avoid covering the baby's face.

3. keep baby's face uncovered while sleeping (no pillows in bed, no covers, no bedding, no wool pads, plush toys, etc.)

4. Swaddle the baby only in a light wrap. The wrap can be cotton or good swaddle blankets, without other thick, soft alternatives, as these can easily overheat when wrapped.

5. The wrap must not be too tight and must ensure free movement of the hips, legs and chest (free movement of the chest means normal breathing movements).

6. Ensure that the baby in the wrap is not wearing too much. Wear only diapers in hot weather (pee-insensitive) and sleeping bags in cold weather.

7. Provide a safe sleeping environment (safe crib, mattress, reasonable bed, no mess on the bed, only wrapped babies.

8. The baby must not be wrapped if it is sleeping with an adult, whether in bed or somewhere else. Sleeping together is already unsafe; wrapping up and sleeping together is even more so.

9. Adjust the wrap so that once the baby's "shock reflex" (hugging reflex) disappears (the newborn instinctively opens its arms and hugs when startled), adjust the wrap so that the baby's hands are exposed. The "shock reflex" ("hug reflex") usually disappears around 3 months.

10. When you find that your baby is free to roll over while playing, from supine to prone (usually at 4-6 months), it is possible to no longer wrap the baby to let it sleep.

Preventing hip dysplasia in infants, the focus of hip dislocation is that when wrapping the baby, the hip and leg should not be wrapped too tightly, to ensure that the hip and leg have some space for movement