Benefits of Babywearing for Babies

• Helps reduce baby crying by approximately 50%
• Helps reduce colic, reflux, and regurgitation
• Aids in breastfeeding
• Promotes weight gain
• Soothes
• Promotes healthy development of the baby's spine and hips
• Helps prevent and correct hip dysplasia
• Improves muscle development - motor coordination and sense of balance
• Position of snugness and physical and emotional comfort - intrauterine position
• Allows babies to spend more time in a calm and alert state - ideal for learning and development

• Optimizes mental development and helps develop social skills - learning the rules of communication and facial expressions early on
• They feel more integrated into the family routine - thus improving their capacity for communication and interactivity
• They are more independent and interact better with their surroundings
• Keeps them safe from everyday dangers (people who like to put their hands on the baby, give kisses, pick them up, and... and... and....)
• They are calmer, sleep more and better with the continuous rocking and the mother's heartbeat; the baby feels like they are back in the womb
• They breathe cleaner air - the air at stroller level is the most polluted by dust and exhaust fumes from cars. This pollution is dissipated at a higher level.
• Prevents skull deformities (plagiocephaly) due to the excessive use of infant car seats/carriers or strollers

Several pediatricians and researchers in child development report the benefits of creating an environment similar to what the baby experienced in the maternal womb during the first stages of life. For nine months, the baby was in an intrauterine environment, snug, nestled, with their body in a fetal position and with the sounds of their mother's body (like the heartbeat), and from one moment to the next, after birth, they find themselves stretched out, far from their mother's warmth and skin, in their own little bed and in perfect silence.

When we lay the baby down in bed or the crib, they will feel alone!

Their mother has suddenly disappeared!!! They are not being rocked as they used to be. The heart and intestinal sounds that accompanied them for approximately 40 weeks can no longer be heard, and the space where they are lying is so large that they can even stretch out completely! It is a big change that should not be radical.

Trying to simulate what the baby felt throughout the pregnancy by carrying the baby close to the mother in the embrace is the solution. But we are not always prepared to carry a baby for so long in the same position, especially as they start to gain weight. Thus, carrying in the arms is often replaced by the stroller (a trade-off that, in emotional terms, harms the relationship).

In some indigenous cultures where carrying the baby in the arms (Babywearing) is common, babies normally cry for a few minutes a day. This is in contrast to Western babies who can cry for hours a day.

Crying excessively can harm the baby's mental development due to the amount of stress hormones flooding the baby's brain. Therefore, babies who cry less will spend their energy on more important activities such as eating, observing, playing, and even growing.

 

Studies support not only the safety of babywearing but also establish it as a biological imperative.

https://bwbrasil.wordpress.com/artigos-sobre-babywearing/10-razoes-para-voce-usar-um-sling/
http://www.wearsthebaby.com
https://babywearinginternational.org/what-is-babywearing/