As newborns sleep

As newborns sleep

The long dream for newborn children has huge value. Parents need to try to respect the standard daily rate of a dream depending on age of the child.

Ideal day regimen for the newborn

For the newborn of the baby it is very heavy to achieve an accurate day regimen. The kid only gets used to live and for him it is huge loading, but the disorder cannot be allowed. It is important to respect standard daily rate of a dream. It is 18-20 hours. At night the tot can wake up to eat on average 2-3 times. In several months when the kid a little accustoms, he can sleep for 2 hours a day less, that is 16-18 hours.

The newborn does not have a difference when to wake up or fill up. Therefore the best option will be to accustom to try the baby to a family daily routine. Certainly, it is necessary to listen also to biorhythms of the kid. More accurate mode will be set after three months.

Uneasy dream of the newborn and his reason

Speak about a sound healthy sleep - "as at the baby". But the chest kid wakes up in a night several times.

The baby closes eyes and falls asleep. His face represents lovely grimaces. This period is called a phase of a superficial dream or an active phase. Its duration on average about 40 minutes. During this time some children can seem sleeping tight, others pull eyeballs, move with handles, legs, shudder, than throw parents into confusion. At such moments of the child it is very easy to wake. After that there comes the phase of a deep sleep. Externally it can be distinguished on a relaxed pose, a quiet look. Duration of this period at newborns no more than an hour, but with growing of the kid duration will increase. At monthly kids in a night the superficial and deep dreams alternate up to 6 times. The active phase of a dream at the same time prevails therefore the baby wakes up even at an insignificant irritant. Such as hunger, for example, or own involuntary movements, starts.

Mom should not be afraid to take the kid to herself in a bed after his night awakening. She will be able to caress and feed him, and he will quickly fall asleep.

Often happens that mom, having only put seeming sleeping the child in a bed, leaves the room, and immediately hears the crying notifying that the kid woke up. Most likely, the baby did not manage to sink into a deep sleep yet. It is worth staying with the child a little more, than usually.

Bed - not the place for games

The sleep debt reason young fathers and mothers often have night games when the kid woke up and long is awake. If it becomes a habit, then parents will forget about a normal dream. The fact that the child is accustomed to be played on a bed can serve as one of explanations, and he considers it we weed for entertainments. It is important to let know to the baby that the bed is a place for a dream. Of course, there are also more serious reasons which prevent to sleep to the newborn. First of all it is pain in a tummy, the put nose.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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