Re: [ozmidwifery] hip dysplasia and swaddling

[Marijke Eastaugh]

This is really interesting, I recently birthed with a woman and she had a friend who was an osteopath and said that it was not good to lift babies up by their legs to put a nappy on. The idea being that it was pressure somewhere on the neck region so to change a nappy rolling side to side was recommended. I'd never heard of this before, or the swaddling causing hip dysplasia. It could be possible that if you swaddle with disposable nappies especially and you do it really firm it could cause problems if there was already disposition in this direction. Anyone else have ideas on this. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kylie Carberry To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] hip dysplasia and swaddling Recently my 18 month old was diagnosed with CDH.  We have since discovered that there is a family history (my father-in-law had a hip replacement before 50, and the specialist says it was probably a case of undiagnosed CDH), but I am also wondering about swaddling.  I have swaddled all of my children and always touting the benefits to my friends who are new mothers.  Now I am wondering whether in fact this is not such a good thing.  I have read that in cultures where there is no swaddling CDH is unheard of.  As midwives,what are everyones thought? Kylie Carberry   -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe. Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.24/101 - Release Date: 13/09/2005