Summary: This article provides information about failure to thrive and how baby wearing could improve the condition.
Baby wearing is a practice that has been present for centuries. Many cultures from across the world practice variations of baby wearing. Baby wearing is thought to help reduce the chances of your baby developing colic, promote a healthier parent child bond, and hundreds of other benefits. In fact, it has been discovered that baby carrying could help improve infants with the diagnosis failure to thrive
Understanding Failure to Thrive
Failure to thrive is a medical term used by pediatricians to explain instances where infants are unable to gain and maintain a healthy weight. Failure …show more content…
Baby Wearing and Improving Failure to Thrive
Recently, there has been studies that show a direct correlation with failure to thrive infants that are carried having a slight improvement of their condition. Pediatricians have started asking parents of failure to thrive infants to try baby wearing. Baby wearing has been utilized as a therapeutic tool in many cultures because it is believed that the close contact stimulates your child’s development.
Parents are encouraged to find age appropriate carriers that will maintain the correct posture for the baby. The carriers should be comfortable for both the parent and child. Pediatricians are encouraging parents to practice baby wearing up to 3 hours daily to help stimulate their development.
Why Might Baby Wearing Help Improve the Condition?
The leading theory as to why baby carriers might be beneficial to failure to thrive infants is motion. The motion provides sensory input that stimulates your child. Motion also has a calming effect on kids because it reminds them of being in the womb. The motion provides a natural soothing element that allows children to focus more on development and less on