Doctors in Belgium conducted a study title, Influence of Swaddling on Sleep and Arousal Characteristics of Healthy Infants and the reports outlines some great reasons to swaddle your newborn.
The purpose of the study was to systematically examine the
benefits of swaddling and identify if swaddling favor babies to sleep and
reduce crying among irritable babies. The impact of environmental sound was
used to test the impact of sleeping babies that are swaddle and non-swaddle.
The studies clearly showed,
“swaddling was associated with increase in the infant’s sleep efficiency
and in the time spent in non-rapid eye movement sleep.”
The impact of swaddling on reducing crying was less
conclusive in this study, but if babies are able to sleep for a longer time,
then I’m sure more parents would still be overjoy. So, if you are a parent who
has a baby that doesn’t like to sleep, then give give swaddling a try.
Read the full journal article at PubMed.
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