The sleeping position of a baby is very interesting. When babies are very young, they prefer to sleep on their stomach. Parents will make babies turn around after they have gone to sleep. However, babies often unintentionally lie prone again. In fact, sleeping on your stomach is okay, and sleeping on your stomach is also good. How many months can a newborn sleep on their stomach?
How many months can a newborn sleep on their stomach
After 2 months, babies can sleep on their stomach without any problems. If a baby falls asleep, they can do the opposite. However, if a baby often sleeps on their stomach, it is normal to see if it is due to indigestion or food accumulation. Sleeping on their stomach is a normal physiological response, and as long as the risk of suffocation is ruled out, the baby can be allowed to sleep on their stomach appropriately.
The benefits of sleeping on your stomach
1. Improving sleep quality: Foreign scientists studied the sleeping posture of 80 healthy infants. Babies sleep better and longer when lying down. This may be related to reducing external stimuli such as sound and light, which the body receives when sleeping on its stomach.
2. Can improve respiratory efficiency: From the perspective of human physiology and anatomy, infants have relatively longer breasts and posterior lungs. When lying prone, lung compression is minimal, and breathing is most in line with natural laws. Some data shows that infants have higher respiratory efficiency when sleeping on their stomach. Compared with supine sleep, the oxygen content of hemoglobin increased by 5%, indicating that supine sleep has its own anatomical and physiological rationality.
3. Can prevent spitting: Infants have a small stomach volume and insufficient curvature, so spitting is very common. The cardia is located near the middle of the stomach. When the human body lies down, the heart rises to prevent vomiting. At this point, even if spitting occurs, it will not cause suffocation by inhaling vomit from the trachea face down.
