My cousin complained about her life after giving birth:
"I haven't slept well after giving birth to him. I woke up as soon as I put it on, and I held her and stood up and walked back and forth to sleep. It's so tiring!"
The baby's sleep condition is directly related to the mother's sleep quality. allows the baby to fall asleep smoothly and sleep well is the wish of many mothers.
But if you raise a baby who doesn’t like to sleep, has difficulty coaxing to sleep, and frequently wakes up at night, it will really make the old mother anxious and angry!
Is it normal for babies to wake up frequently?
The sleep of the baby is different from that of adults. Since does not have the ability to fall asleep independently after the baby is born, , most of them need to coax them to sleep.
0-3 months
Newborn babies sleep almost all day, and they have to sleep about 20 hours a day, and they can sleep for 2-4 hours at a time. After the full month, the baby also needs to sleep for 16-18 hours a day.
In this stage, since the baby has not established the circadian rhythm, he cannot distinguish between day and night, and the stomach capacity is small, which makes him easily hungry, and is also a high-incidence stage of intestinal flatulence, he will always wake up at night.
4 months
Babies are about 4 months old, and as the sleep pattern is gradually established, the number of wake-ups will also decrease. Many babies can sleep for 4-5 hours in a nap when they are full and drink and have a comfortable environment, and wake up 1-2 times at night.
Sleep Regression Period
If your baby is usually a sleeping angel, suddenly becomes difficult to coax, short sleep during the day, frequent awakening at night, restless and clingy, it may be that his sleep regression may occur.
Sleep regression does not mean that there is a problem with the baby's body, but is caused by factors such as brain development and the development of large exercise.
Generally, the baby's sleep regression occurs at 4 months, 8-10 months, 11-12 months, 18 months, and 2 years old, and generally lasts for 2-6 weeks.
Of course, each baby has its own development situation, so the time for sleep regression is not fixed, and mothers can judge based on the baby's own situation.
People will wake up several times when they sleep. Generally, when we wake up, we can adjust our posture and find a comfortable way to continue sleeping.
But the difference between babies and adults is that they cannot take care of themselves. When they wake up, they are also looking for this method, such as breastfeeding, patting, etc.
The method of coaxing the baby to sleep is priority
The method of coaxing the baby to sleep is priority:
Sleep independently, pat on the bed, sitting and patting, standing and patting, walking and patting, walking + shaking.
When the baby is sleepy but not completely asleep, putting it in the small bed can allow the baby to connect his sleep with the small bed, which is conducive to the cultivation of independent sleep.
Try to avoid habitually coaxing the baby to fall asleep by holding and shaking.
Like many of us adults have comfortable sleeping habits, such as, like pillows that are just right in height.
The same is true for babies. If they develop the habit of sleeping only by adults holding them and sleeping only by feeding them, it may become the only way to let them fall asleep.
helps the baby distinguish between night and daytime
Before the baby is born, there is no light stimulation in the mother's uterus, and it is easy to have day and night confusion. Parents should consciously create different environments for the baby day and night.
I have a mother who takes care of her children meticulously. She will also pull up the curtains during the day, speak softly, and walk tiptoe. The house is very quiet.
The child slept well during the day, but he slept very late at night, and he couldn't sleep well, and the dark day was reversed.
The baby's routine often makes the mother and the wife have no room to live together, which is more distressing.
In order to help your baby adapt to the differences between day and night as soon as possible, it is recommended to open the curtains when you wake up in the morning.
When sleeping during the day, there is no need to restrict family activities, so that the baby can sleep in an audio environment, even if it doesn’t sleep well during the day, it doesn’t matter.
When the baby wakes up, you can play with it, let the baby lie down, listen to music, watch cards, etc.
can also take your baby to play outdoors more, which can help secrete melatonin that is conducive to sleep at night, allowing the baby to fall asleep better.
When the night is at night, create a bedtime atmosphere, pull up the curtains, dim or turn off the light source, and keep the interior quiet.
When the baby wakes up at night, he responds immediately, feeds breastfeeding when he is hungry, changes his diapers when he is urinating, and try not to walk around with the baby, or to play with it, and be gentle.
is also here to remind new parents that if the baby does not sleep well at night, don’t hold the baby and not let the baby sleep during the day, and the idea of being able to sleep well at night is often counterproductive. If the baby is sleepy during the day, let the baby sleep.
finds that the baby is sleepy, and coaxes to sleep in time
If the baby is sleepy and does not coax to sleep in time, it will make the baby more and more excited and will become difficult to fall asleep, which will increase the difficulty of coaxing to sleep.
The baby is sleepy and will send some sleep signals:
rub your eyes;
eyes are straight and you are not interested in amusing;
suddenly starts crying and squeezing;
yawns.
When the baby has these symptoms, coaxing him to sleep in time can help the baby fall asleep quickly.
The ability of babies to fall asleep independently is not innate. If the baby learns to fall asleep independently, it is necessary to cultivate good sleep habits of the baby from an early age.
Develop good bedtime habits
Studies have shown that fixed bedtime habits (lasting about 20 minutes) can help your baby relax and fall asleep.
Sequence to establish bedtime habits:
♥Create bedtime atmosphere . Before going to bed every day, pull up the curtains, close the door, and turn on the night lights;
♥Change pajamas (wrap the baby swading clothes 3 months ago, and choose the corresponding leg-splitting sleeping bag a little bigger);
(swabbing method process diagram)
♥Play white noise (noise evenly distributed in the entire frequency range of power general density), such as the static sound of the radio, or the "swillow" sound you make;
♥Put the baby on the bed and pat the baby's shoulder until it gets asleep.
Cultivating a baby's good sleep habits is a gradual process. About 3 months is the transition period for the baby's sleep pattern to drastically change. tries to develop the baby's ability to "supplement" as much as possible.
Parents can stick to this pre-bedtime process every night, which can lay a solid foundation for the "Sleeping God" later.
If the baby learns to sleep by himself, he can fall asleep alone when he wakes up in the middle of the night, which can also save parents from many sleepless nights.
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