A few days ago they sent me a nice text in which they gave advice to couples who consider having a child. One of the paragraphs proposed an exercise to get an idea of what it can be to dress a particularly unruly little boy: try to dress an octopus.
Dressing a small child is simple: first, buy an octopus, ask the greengrocer for a net bag and try to put the octopus inside the bag so that none of the tentacles come out of the holes in the net. Do not worry, you can devote all morning.
I admit that it is a bit exaggerated, but surely one of our readers has found that Your baby looks like a wayward octopus when you try to stuff it in the clothes. Exhausting.
Octopus children
There are children who get along with what let's change them clothes. Others do not support it, the change in temperature or the manipulation of them enrages them and there is no way. The parents get desperate and the baby cries and kicks so much that you even think about immobilizing him so that he can put his legs through the holes of the shorts while he screams and shakes.
There are no valid recipes for all furious little octopuses. For parents yes, patience. As always, repeating "this will happen" has a calming effect.
It is better not change clothes If not necessary. Come on, that nothing happens if we take him out of his pajamas, putting on them a coat and a blanket. In addition, looking for a moment in which he is calm, distracting him and not losing his good mood, talking to him at all times with sweetness and explaining, even if he is very small, what we are going to do, helps.
It is also advisable to buy comfortable clothes. Whole pajamas that open between the legs, wide necks that pass easily through the head, sleeves and wide legs, jackets that open in front without buttons or complications are comfortable garments.
Understand the baby
It helps a lot understand the childAs always, empathy will be the best of tools. Starting from the idea, when our baby despairs us, that he does not do what he does to annoy, or manipulate, or out of evil, is a calming sensation. Babies do what they do out of necessity.
Newborns and babies, unless it is very hot and even if the temperature is warm, they get nervous if they are naked without the shelter of the arms. For them it is necessary to feel protected and protected from the environment, not only because their control of body temperature is immature, but also because of a psychological and emotional issue, the heat and being surrounded by tactile sensations comfort them and not feeling on their skin Contact makes your alarms go off.
If when cry for being changed or manipulated We get rough and nervous, they feel rejection and they can enter a vicious circle that will make them get worse and worse when they realize that we are going to change them.
Practical tips
It is necessary to have the clothes prepared next to the baby, to minimize the time he will be naked. Doing it in parts, if it is not for the bathroom, preventing it from becoming completely naked can also help. In addition, covering it with a towel, allows them to continue with the feeling of being dressed while we change it.
Clothing is essential that can be passed through the head quickly and without being fitted. Nothing overwhelms the little one more than a garment covering his face or mouth or the pulls to make it happen. Soft handling and comfort in garments They are mandatory.
We should never leave the baby on a surface from which it can fall, nor leave to look for something that we have forgotten even a single moment. Babies "take advantage" just that moment to surprise us with movements that they had not done before and can be really dangerous if they turn and fall. Never leave them alone, even if we are in a hurry or cry. Safety first.
If the child has become accustomed to being naked from birth, skin to skin, and we can dress him cuddled, he can make this discomfort diminish. But in other cases, touching or caressing it can make you more nervous, as each child is different, only their parents know how to find the strategy that best suits their characteristics.
Surely readers have experiences in this regard and will give us ideas to get along better. It is not necessary to train having to dress an octopus to be able to wear the clothes to our baby.
