Parent-child yoga movements get in close contact with baby

Work overtime every day for life and spend too little time in contact with the baby? In fact, as long as you are willing, take 5-10 minutes every day to do parent-child yoga with your baby. Just move your hands, twist your waist, and turn your feet, you can warm up your feelings and help your baby grow up healthily.

There are many dual-income families in modern times, and parents often do not have time to take the initiative to take care of their children, so they often entrust their babies to their elders to raise them until they are two or three years old. Due to the lack of intimate interactions such as changing diapers and bathing, the relationship between them seems to have a feeling of alienation and gap.

Getting along with your baby starts with intimate contact

In response to this, it is not too late from now on. As long as parents and babies use some yoga exercises together when they are at home, I believe that it can not only enhance parent-child interaction, but also improve the previously unfamiliar situation.

Worried about not having enough time? As long as parents are willing to set aside a short 5 to 10 minutes every day, either in the morning or at night, and according to the baby's learning stage and physical condition that day, with several appropriate movements, it will not only help the baby's development, but also allow parents to follow. Exercise, but also enhance parent-child relationship, why not?

Effectively promote your baby's physical and mental development

As long as you can make good use of yoga, it will bring good physical and psychological feelings to your baby and parents.

Physiologically, these movements help your baby's bones develop, train muscle coordination, and promote brain and nervous system development. Psychologically, it can not only enhance parent-child interaction, but also help the baby feel at ease; once relaxed, it will bring better quality sleep and make the baby grow better and healthier.

More importantly, if parents can maintain interaction with their children throughout the baby's growth process, it will greatly contribute to the development of personality traits, thereby enhancing self-confidence and communication skills.

The infant period between 0 and 1 years old is the stage of the biggest changes during the baby's growth. Whether it is food intake (from liquid to solid), language development, brain growth... etc., among them, the development of the five major movements of "turning over, sitting, crawling, standing, and walking" is one of the important changes. The following will introduce 6 styles of parent-child yoga exercises based on different stages of baby growth and development.

prepared in advance

Location: If you are in bed, make sure the surroundings are clean first; on the floor, it is recommended to lay a yoga mat. If you go outdoors, it is recommended to find a place with flat ground such as a park and lay on suitable mats such as picnic mats.

Clothing: It is comfortable and breathable. Don't choose complicated clothing. In addition, parents are asked to remove all accessories first.

precautions

1 Parent-child yoga exercises usually suggest that mother or father and child interact in person, which will have better results. Sometimes you can also join a third person to provide assistance.

2 It is best to adopt a "gradual" force, gradually increase the force at the beginning, and gradually weaken the force at the end of the action, so as not to burden the baby's body.

3 It is recommended to practice 1 to 2 hours after a meal, and eat at least half an hour after practice.

4 After practice, you can slowly drink warm, non-ice water.

little secret

If your baby cannot concentrate, you can use some dolls or small things that your baby usually likes to attract your baby's attention.

The first yoga massage

Practice:

1 Mom applies a refreshing moisturizing lotion without additives on her hands.

2 Gently massage your baby's whole body, starting from the body and extending to the hands and feet.

3 If you start exercising in the morning, it is recommended to start with massage to wake up your baby's body feelings.

4 When mom massages her feet, dad can also join in massaging her hands and interact together.

Efficacy: Increase parent-child interaction, enhance baby's sensory touch, and promote brain nerve development.

Notes:

1 Ingredients of moisturizer.

2 Massage techniques should be gentle and do not use finger pressure.

Suitable stage: Starting from the newborn (0 to 4 months old), the baby can do this exercise at every stage.

Second abdominal breathing method (baby's water bed)

Practice:

1 Mom lies flat on the floor or bed and places the supine baby on the mother's stomach.

2 Mom practices abdominal breathing (abdomen bulges when inhaling in; abdomen recedes when exhaling).

After 3, slowly turn the baby into a prone position and place it on his stomach, and the mother continues to practice abdominal breathing.

Efficacy: Relieves emotions, relieves stress, makes it easier for the baby to fall asleep, and can also use this training to turn over.

Notes:

1 Don't deliberately expand or contract your abdomen. You need to feel that the abdomen will rise and fall naturally because you inhale deeply and spit long.

2 From then on, there will be interesting names for the actions. You can read them aloud during parent-child interaction, which can help stimulate the development of listening.

Suitable stage: Every baby can do it from the turning period (4 to 6 months); if you want to do this during the neonatal period, you must pay special attention to avoiding a prone position, just lie on your back.

The third auspicious sitting posture (little butterfly)

Practice:

1 Mom sits in a sitting position and places the baby in front of her.

2 The mother puts the baby's feet together to form a small diamond-shaped shape. The mother puts her hands under the baby's armpits to stabilize the body.

Effectiveness: Train your baby in sitting and standing posture and the muscles around the spine.

Notes:

1 Don't let your baby bend forward for long periods of time or overstretch under pressure.

2 If your baby is unable to sit by himself, do not stay seated for too long. Because the spine has not yet been fully developed, there is an easy risk of causing scoliosis.

Suitable stage: Starting from the sitting period (6 - 8 months). If it is a newborn, it can be done in a lying position.