11/25/2025
🌻Does your newborn even side lie bro?😎
Side lying (‼️while attended, NEVER unattended) has SO many benefits!
DIGESTION:
👶🏼Lying on the LEFT side allows your stomach to have more space, and your gastric juices don’t have a straight shot to your esophageal track. For babies who have reflux, are spitters, or have just fed, lying on their left is way more comfy!❤️
HEAD SHAPE:
👶🏽Give the back of your baby’s head a break! Lying on either the right or left side allows babies head shapes to continue growing. While many uneven or flat head shapes are temporary, you might as well switch it up from lying on their backs or being held/worn.
MOTOR DEVELOPMENT:
👶🏼While on their sides, babies can practice reaching and kicking! Placing any sort of toys/cards/books/mirrors in front of them while on their sides allows them to reach and kick towards those toys, resulting in a different sort of core and neck muscle activation!
SENSORY INPUT:
👶🏿Newborns are getting used to literally EV.ERY.THING. It’s important for their little bodies to have sensory input (the raw information your body receives from the environment through your sensory organs) on their sides in the early stages of life. Also, rolling is a skill that requires sensory input to take place on the entire circumference of the body. Give them a head start and allow them to feel side sensations right off the bat!❤️
