Childbirth lasts eighteen months: nine months inside and nine months outside of the mother.
To understand the carrying of a child in a bag will be easier if you imagine that the child's bearing lasts eighteen months - nine months inside and at least another nine months outside. In the first nine months, the uterus surrounding the baby regulates all of its systems automatically. Birth temporarily breaks this debugged system. However, the faster the child gets help from outside adjusting these systems, the easier it adapts to the mysterious world outside the womb. Prolonged stay in the uterus, carrying a child in a bag, the mother( or father) provides an external regulatory system that balances the chaotic and irregular nature of the child. Imagine how this adjustment system works. Maternal rhythmic walking, for example( the rhythm of which the child felt for nine months), reminds the child of the time spent in the womb. This familiar rhythm, imprinted in the child's brain as early as the uterus, now appears again in the "outer womb" and soothes the child. The maternal heartbeat, delightfully regular and familiar, reminds the child of the sounds he heard in the uterus when he applies his ear to the mother's breast. As another biological regulator, the child feels maternal rhythmic breathing when she carries his stomach to the stomach, chest to chest. Simply put, parental regular rhythms have a stabilizing effect on the child's inconsistent rhythms.
Another way that the mother carries out a regulatory action is to stimulate the development of a child's developing body regulating the vital activity of hormones. Researchers have shown that if the mother and the child are inseparable for a long time, as in carrying them in a bag, this helps the child to begin to distinguish between day and night. They believe that the presence of the mother has a regulating effect on the production of the adrenal hormones, which cause sleep at night and provide wakefulness during the day.
The mother's voice, which, when carried in a bag, the child hears constantly, regulates the movements of the child's limbs. In a study conducted in 1974, an analysis of the video recording of the movements of the child's body, when the mother was talking to him, showed that the child moved completely synchronously with the intonations of the mother's speech when she spoke with him in her unique children's language. These synchronous movements did not arise in response to someone else's voice. In general, maternal rhythmic movements and speech "teach" the child to make more rhythmic movements in his movements, restraining the regular for the newborn
irregularity, lack of coordination and aimless movements.
Wearing in a bag has a beneficial effect on the child's vestibular apparatus. This apparatus, represented by organs located behind both ears, helps a person to keep his body in balance. For example, if you lean too far in one direction, the vestibular device will signal to you that you should deviate to the other side in order not to lose your balance. This device resembles three tiny levels that carpenters use in their work, one of which is located so as to control lateral balance, the other - moving the body up and down, and the third - back and forth. These "levels" function together to keep the body in balance. When a child is worn, he moves in all three planes. Each time the baby's body changes position, the fluid contained in these devices moves to tiny, hair-like fibers that vibrate and send nerve impulses to the child's muscles to keep his body in balance. Before birth, the child has a very sensitive vestibular apparatus, which is constantly stimulated, as the fetus is in constant motion. Wearing a child in a bag "reminds" him of the movement and balance that gave
his pleasure in the uterus, and also gives them a continuation.
What can happen if a child is not lucky to have a lasting contact with the mother and he spends most of the time lying horizontally in the crib and gets attention only when it needs to be fed and reassured, and then again without mum? The newborn has an innate desire for organization, to adapting to his new environment. If the child is left to himself, without the frequent presence of the mother, the child may develop unorganized behavior patterns: colic, restless crying, sharp twitching movements, chaotic attempts to self-indulge, anxious thumb sucking, irregular breathing and sleep disturbances. A child who before time has to regulate all of his systems on his own, spends a lot of energy on complacency, spending that valuable energy that could be used for growth and development.
The manifestation of anxiety and unorganized behavior are withdrawal symptoms - the result of the loss of regulatory effects that give attachment to the mother. Children should not be left alone in order for them to train and become themselves tranquilizers, as parents sometimes advise. This detached approach to caring for a child contradicts both sensible
meaning, and experience, and research. Behavioral studies have repeatedly proven that infants behave more nervously and unorganized in the absence of the mother. Although there are many theories of child upbringing, all the researchers of loving care for the child agree on one thing: that the child develop emotionally, intellectually and physiologically is optimal, it is necessary the constant presence of the mother, as in carrying in a bag, carrying out the necessary regulatory influence.