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| Effects Of Baby Backing by Nobody: 5:38pm On Oct 29, 2013 |
– The ancient practice of “swaddling” a baby in a blanket, arms restrained and legs stretched out, is making a comeback, but ighoosagie warns that its bad for infant hips. In my recent research I pointed out that in countries like Nigeria where women traditionally carry their babies with the legs splayed around their waist, there was a “virtually unseen”rate of hip dislocation. While many parents say the technique is soothing and aids their child’s sleep, researchers underlined that links have been observed to osteoarthritis and hip replacement in middle age. “Traditional swaddling is a risk factor for DDH (developmental dysplasia of the hip),” paediatric orthopaedic surgeon Nicholas Clarke wrote in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a British journal. “In order to allow for healthy hip development, legs should be able to bend up and out at the hips. This position allowsfor natural development of the hip joints. “The babies’ legs should not be tightly wrapped in extension and pressed together.” I have further noted that about 90percent of infants in North America are nowadays swaddled in the first few months of life, and that demand for swaddling clothes increased by 61percent over a year in the UK in 2010-11. The practice, believed to go as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans, is said to mimic the baby’s experience in the womb by creating a sense of warmth and security with light pressure all over the body. It fell out of favour in the Western world decades ago over fears of adverse effects, but remains popular in the Middle East and some tribal communities. An education programme in Japan against swaddling saw the prevalence of hip dislocation halve, said Clarke. Store-bought swaddling clothes must have a loose pouch or sack for the baby’s legs and feet, allowing for plenty of hip movement and flexing, he added. Commenting on the article, orthopaedic surgeon Andreas Roposch of the Great Ormond Street children’shospital in London, agreed there was evidence that swaddling could affect the normal development of infant hips. “Swaddling should not be employed in my view as there is no health benefit but a risk for adverse consequences of the growing and often immature hips,”he said in comments distributed by the Science Media Centre. “I would advise that if a baby needs to be wrapped up to get off to sleep that parents do this in a sympathetic and loose manner, and not tight especially around the babies’ hips,” he said
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| Re: Effects Of Baby Backing by veave(f): 10:45pm On Oct 29, 2013 |
y ur hip no break? abi dey tell you sey u nor bohboh wen you small? |
| Re: Effects Of Baby Backing by everyday: 11:44am On Oct 30, 2013 |
Please enlighten these our bush Nigerian women |
| Re: Effects Of Baby Backing by Nobody: 12:08pm On Oct 30, 2013 |
everyday: Please enlighten these our bush Nigerian womenwhy the insult, ur mom too is a Nigerian? Think before u type anything 1 Like |
| Re: Effects Of Baby Backing by xynerise: 12:14pm On Oct 30, 2013 |
Nonsense!!! Most of the great men and women in Nigeria were swaddled. @op. I believe you were swaddled? Do you have a bowed hip?  |
| Re: Effects Of Baby Backing by tpia5: 5:22pm On Nov 15, 2013 |
inferiority complex: always annoying. |
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