The sleeping condition of a baby has always been a topic of concern to parents, because for a long time after the baby is born, he is in a state of sleep and wakes up as he sleeps. He can't sleep for a whole night, which makes it impossible for mothers to have a good rest state because the baby wakes up at night and has to eat night milk.
Therefore, most mothers really hope that their babies can have a good sleep and quit night milk, so that they can get a good rest themselves.
Xiaojie brought his baby to his best friend's house as a guest on that day. During the chat, he mentioned the baby's night milk. His best friend said that his baby was already old and had stopped eating night milk a long time ago.
When talking about Xiaojie's baby, Xiaojie said that his baby would get up to eat at around 4 am in , and he was very worried. When my best friend heard this, she asked Xiaojie what time to go to for baby , and Xiaojie said that the baby would fall asleep at around 7 o'clock in the evening.
Hearing Xiaojie say this, my best friend said that in fact, Xiaojie's baby was no longer considered night milk because the baby started to sleep at 7 pm and had already had a full sleep by 4 pm. It was time to get up and replenish food.
Xiaojie was still a little puzzled about this. Although it was almost morning at 4 a.m., it was a bit too early. Why didn’t it count as night milk?
Best friend explained that, in fact, as long as the baby can sleep a whole night, then the baby can eat milk after waking up, it cannot be considered night milk.
determine whether the baby eats night milk. It depends on the baby's sleep condition.
Babies of different ages have different standards for "sleeping in the whole night". The reason why my best friend said that Xiaojie's baby was either taking night milk is because babies of this age had about 7 hours at night , so the baby had already slept for a full sleep and it exceeded the standard time, so it was time to wake up and eat breastfeeding.
Below, let’s take a look at the “sleeping” standards for babies of all ages:
Newborn, that is, babies just one month old, do not have a concept of a whole sleep, because the sleeping cycle of babies at this stage is short and there is no day-night pattern, so it is normal to eat night milk.
1-3 months of age, babies cannot sleep all night at because the baby's sleep cycle at night is about 2.5 hours to 4 hours, and cannot cover the entire night.
4-month-old-old babies have a sleep cycle of 5-7 hours at night. At this time, babies can sleep all night long. At this stage, parents need to pay attention to cultivating their children's biological clock and producing day and night patterns. If they are well trained, the baby can almost completely synchronize the sleep conditions of adults, and adults can rest comfortably.
When the baby is older, the length of sleep at night will gradually increase. Generally, when is eight or nine months old, you can sleep for about 11 hours in . At this time, the baby's sleep at night can generally completely cover the adult's sleep cycle.
So, if the baby cannot sleep all night and wakes up in the middle of the night to eat milk, it is considered to be a real night milk. For this kind of night milk situation, we need to quit.
However, before talking about quitting night milk, we should first look at why some babies in can completely avoid night milk, but they still have the habit of eating night milk.
Why do some babies do not need to eat night milk?
Mothers treat night milk as "soothing"
When the baby is very young, they wake up at night more frequently, and the mother is also exhausted at this time. Therefore, when the child wakes up at night or is uneasy in sleep, the mother will choose the most relaxed and convenient way to comfort the baby, so that the baby can maintain a continuous sleep so that he can rest better.
, a convenient and easy way is breast milk. Because mothers can achieve the purpose of comforting almost without moving, many mothers like this comforting method.
However, there was a bad development trend at that time. After the mother used breastfeeding as a comforting method for a long time, the baby formed a habit of eating night milk . Even if he had no physiological needs (hungry), he would habitually look for milk, thus forming a bad habit of eating night milk.
Worrying that the child will be hungry or wake up at night, actively wake up the child to eat milk
Sometimes, the baby is asleep but the mother does not sleep. When the mother is about to sleep, she is worried that the baby who has been sleeping for a long time will wake up, and before going to bed, she will actively wake up the baby before going to bed, so that she can sleep longer.
However, this method is actually a way to destroy the baby's daily routine, which will cause the baby's daily routine to become disordered, resulting in the inability to sleep, and then eating night milk.
If the baby already has the bad habit of eating night milk, how should mothers correct it?
In fact, correcting the baby's night milk is not very complicated. The first thing mothers need to do is to correct some of their bad habits.
For example, no longer use breast milk as a soothing method, do not actively wake up the baby, etc. Only in this way can the baby's sleep be kept from disturbed.
Of course, since the baby's night milk habit has been formed at this time, in addition to changing his own bad habits, mothers also need to interfere with the habits that the baby has formed:
- Mother-child separation, let the baby or other family members take the baby to sleep, so that the baby cannot feel the mother's breath and will not easily develop the desire to eat night milk.
- promptly soothes. When the baby is restless at night, parents can use light pats and other methods to comfort the baby to let the baby fall asleep again.
- Let the baby eat and play well during the day. If the baby eats full, it will not be easy to get hungry at night and thus not easily wake up at night. Let the baby play more during the day, which can consume the baby's energy a lot, so that the baby will feel more delicious when he sleeps at night.
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The baby's habit of eating night milk is not good. Eating night milk for a long time will damage the baby's teeth and even interfere with the baby's development. Therefore, it is recommended that parents must pay attention to the baby's night milk problem and do their best to help the baby develop the habit of sleeping, so that the baby can grow up healthily.
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