The presence of the sucking reflex is an important criterion for the health and harmonious development of the child. And if it is not, whether the worry is worth? The kid does not slazit breast, how to respond to my mother, if it affects the milk?
Sucking reflex is very important for the baby and mother, not only because the kid with the help satisfy their nutritional needs.
Normally, there is the sucking reflex of the baby during the first hours of life (it speaks of his healthy development and the absence of trauma during delivery) and begins to fade closer to 2.5 years and finally disappears at the age of 4 years.
Breastfeeding: physiological and psychological needs
At the time of his birth, the child is under severe physical and emotional stress. He was not used to live outside the mother's abdomen and does not accept your body as a separate entity. Baby tries to reunite with his mother in any way available to him.
Feature of Physiology of the newborn is that the majority of nerve receptors that inform the brain about reconnecting with her mother, it is in the mouth.
Breastfeeding - a natural process of revival relationship between mother and baby after childbirth. Sucking reflex is important for the psycho-emotional condition of the newborn, as well as to establish breastfeeding, the emergence and consolidation of the maternal instinct.
The child ceases to experience stress, calm down and fall asleep faster. This is the main way that helps the child to calm down and feel secure during the first year of life. For mothers suckling baby - a huge plus, because (even if the crumb is hanging on the breast for hours) is an excellent prevention lactostasis, and with it, and breast cancer.
Young healthy mom who gave birth by vaginal birth is shown to feed crumbs to satisfy his sucking reflex to 3 years according to the WHO documentation.
Breastfeeding - an important stage of preparation of the future development of the baby speech. The diligence and high-quality baby suckles, the more easily your child will learn language skills and to avoid problems with diction.
Non-verbal communication with her mother. Mom with a toddler does not need words to understand each other. And though their communication is not yet verbal, mom first person in the life of a baby with whom he learns to communicate. As is well known, it is through non-verbal communication a person gets up to 90% of all information.
The development of the brain associated with the movements of the mouth
- Mouth movements control the movements of the body and are responsible for the basic development of gross motor skills. Watch the kid, before you commit to a particular action hands, he first puts his lips into a tube.
- Kid tries to shove in your mouth every item found. So the children to explore the world of the year and this is no accident.
- The development of the child's brain is directly related with the movements of the mouth and the stimulation of nerve endings in the oral cavity.
- Sucking helps the child learn first equilibrium retention skills and orientation in space. This occurs even before the baby starts to hold his head.
Sucking reflex: why is it so important for the health of the baby and mother / pixabay.com
If suckling is not developed
The child must smoothly pass the stage of development and meet the sucking reflex. Let crumb will come to the end of sucking the natural way. If this step takes place with disabilities and interventions, such as:
- artificial feeding,
- replacement of breast pacifier,
- premature discontinuation of breastfeeding
Then in the future he will try to satisfy the sucking reflex in other ways.
A child can start to bite his nails, caps on pens, chewing gum, and more adults may develop bad habits - smoking, or overeating (eg, sweets), when a person tries to settle down a method of producing pleasure through the nerve endings of the oral cavity.
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