From time immemorial, the nipple was considered a mandatory accessory of newborns and infants.In the first months of life, it not only soothes the crumbs, but also saves you from many troubles.However, in recent decades, doctors have radically changed their attitude toward the nipple.
not need, and that's it!
very first concerned about children's dentists: Durables pacifier leads to malocclusion (experts call it open).The incisors grow forward and not closed, baby face is deformed, acquiring a subtle resemblance to rabbit snout.
Also too hard (without exhaust air valve at the bottom) or too big nipple violates the development of the jaws.Today, pacifiers are available in three sizes - for children up to 4 months to a year and up to 1.5 years.Nevertheless, it is better not to use the latest!Speech therapists also complain because of dental problems provoked by too close friendship with a pacifier, the child's difficulties arise concerning the pronunciation of many sounds.
Neuroscientists are also dissatisfied: they believe Dummy inhibits the mental development of the baby.
specialist in children's infections are joining the chorus: the older the child, the more difficult to keep track of clean nipples.If you already own it moves through the apartment, begins to walk indoors and outdoors, Mommy might not notice that the crumb dropped a pacifier, and then picked up and put it in her mouth.Or just pulled, twisted dirty little hands and sent back.And then parents and doctors are puzzled: where the baby intestinal disorder?
most radical opponents of nipples claim that the baby is quite able to do without it, the adults themselves impose his bad habit of constant sucking, from which then can not wean grown child.Indeed, some of the kids immediately categorically reject the pacifier, the question immediately removed by itself.However, most babies are still clearly given to understand that they need it, and if it does not begin to suck his own fist, tongue, lip, cheek, the tip of the diaper-collar blouse, and do it mainly when they can not afford.
give, but with an eye
modern pediatrics rehabilitated nipple (although with certain reservations and restrictions).This happened for many reasons, the main of which is that eradicating the pacifier as a source of some problems, we unwittingly create another, sometimes even more dangerous and intractable.
from centuries of experience do not go away - Dummy really calms the child.This happens because nature has provided its strong sucking reflex.When the crumb sucks, he is fully focused on this activity, distracted by any external stimuli and discomfort.So indeed - shortcomings pacifier is a continuation of its merits.
It is this focus, literally, on the baby makes sucking less interested in others, reduces the activity, do not wake so productive.It is also a comfortable state wants to play constantly, craving for it all rises, it becomes habitual.
child already sleeps with only an empty shell, and accidentally dropped it in a dream, he begins to worry and cry.Thus, instead of peace we have the opposite - the irritation!
problems bottle-
Noted: The easiest part with pacifier babies who were breastfed up to one year.To get out of her milk, it is necessary to work not less than 15-20 minutes - during which time the crumb is more than meets the need for sucking.
mixture from a bottle baby drinks practically gulp: like already full, but it still does not suck!But sucking reflex - mainly in children during the first months of life, it overrides all others.Not paying him his due, you create the stage for problems, including - irritability and a habit of sucking her finger.Later, it develops into a nibble nails, sucking strands of hair and eating, pathological love of predilection for chewing gum and cigarettes.Assign these bad habits with early weaning from the pacifier person does not occur, but psychologists are convinced that the way it is!
We act on the situation
infants breast-fed, let's pacifier only in special cases (sick, tired, not feeling well, can not sleep).Do not offer a pacifier when without it is possible to do.And most importantly - give crumbs on time to part with it!
suitable moment comes from the 4th to the 6th month: after 3 months of a child cease to torment intestinal colic, it becomes calmer and less attracted to empty.If you manage to give up the pacifier now - just fine - if not, you can still wait.
Not far off time when teeth begin to erupt: at this moment the child has every right to demand a pacifier as an effective sedative.In any case, parting with a pacifier should happen in the first year of life, quietly and kindly agree - without any violence against the crumbs!
kid-bottle-necessarily offer a pacifier after feeding it to satisfy the sucking reflex.When tired, remove it from the mouth.We should not exclude the nipple of the goods too soon - wait at least 6 months, and then begin to slowly wean crumbs, focusing on individual need to suck.Usually this time sucking reflex starts to fade - it's time to turn our attention to the new baby more interesting and useful lesson, rather than plugging his mouth pacifier to 1.5 or even 2 years!
And what's inside?
white Pacifiers are made of silicone, yellow - latex.Last sometimes cause allergy, which can be easily mistaken for thrush.If it does not pass the baby, despite treatment, try to replace the latex nipple silicone!
in scientific centers of health of children and adolescents all dummies are checked for the presence of toxic substances, including and N-nitrozaminovogo element that may be included in the latex.If its content is higher than the permissible limit (10 mg / kg), the party of the nipple immediately destroyed.Among the certified nipple got on drugstore shelves, there is no danger!
Secrets choice
* Ask your pediatrician or pediatric dentist, what fits the nipple crumbs - or a drop of cherry?
* Buy pacifiers in drugstores or department stores, where product quality is guaranteed.
* Examine the information on the packaging: it should be specified age of the child.
* Check for cracks in the nipple, or bubbles, because of which it can not withstand boiling and quickly unusable.
* Estimate, Will not stop ring too cumbersome for baby face: it should not rest on the nose!
* Make sure that the base of the nipple has a valve to release the air.
wean properly
kid for a year, but he will not part with a pacifier?Persuade crumbs to give it a crow or a bunny.When will start to look and say, "Well, you remember yesterday we your nipple mother-hare presented, it just hare was born.ยป
Some moms smeared pacifier mustard rub garlic ... It will not do: pipsqueak can burn the mouth, do notmention psychic trauma!Resort to tricks: every day a little cut off from the tip of pacifiers - when it will be impossible to suck, it will throw the child himself.And if you suddenly try to find a replacement - before bedtime will start sucking her finger or the edge of bed sheet, gently release them from the mouth and distract the little lullaby.
5 arguments in defense of the nipples
1. Dummy child lowers the threshold of excitability and pain sensitivity.If mom is facing a choice: give prihvornuvshemu crumbs nipple or drug dummy still preferable!
2. Protects against sudden infant death syndrome (SAS).Even for this alone would be worth it to declare a general amnesty!Scientists have found that pacifier, firstly, prevents the tongue (it can block breathing neck!), And secondly does not allow infant sleep becomes abnormally deep, unrestrained and helps crumbs just wake up in the sudden cessation of breathing (apnea), in factto save his life.
3. Makes safer sleeping on the back.Doctors do not recommend in the first months of life to lay babies on the back of fears that children may choke or suffocate if regurgitation under the tongue.But if pipsqueak sucking a pacifier, the likelihood of such tragedies is greatly reduced.
4. Helps the formation of emotions.Chief gynecologist of St. Petersburg, MD Yu.A.Gurkin during long-term observations found 12 reasons, because of which a girl who grew up to be a bad mother, unkind with their children.One of them - childhood without pacifiers!
5. Improves bite.We both used to think that it only spoils it, but this is not always the case.Children orthodontists created a special preventive nipple-droplets with a beveled top, prevent underdevelopment of the upper jaw, which is increasingly common in bottle-.To capture such a dummy, the child has to work hard - to push forward the lower jaw.And babies, with whom she is well developed, more suitable for the nipple-shaped cherries.Mom is difficult to determine at a glance whether the procedure jaw her baby: it must decide pediatric dentist!
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