The child sleeps much or a little, uneasily or strong what signs of drowsiness at the kid and how in time to define that it is time for child to sleep - most of parents cannot independently cope with these questions. And often make mistakes, without understanding as healthy and sound sleep is important for the baby.
Having become the parent, many are frightened the majority of natural things which happen to the child. Time, forces and patience is required that unknown and frightening to make clear, to find the approach to needs of the child and his development. One concrete and frightening area is the children's dream.
It is difficult for young parents to find out from the first days how many hours are required to the child for a full-fledged dream as he sleeps and whether it is possible to awake the sleeping child. To ask questions to doctors it is useless, unfortunately, the medicine generalizes and averages statistics many aspects of education.
There are several rules which will allow young parents to find approach to the child and to give it a healthy and full-fledged sleep.
Define signs of drowsiness at the kidAdults in perception have only two signs of drowsiness: yawning and slackness. At children everything is much more difficult, their central nervous system is not created up to the end yet, they are not able to operate the body and in time to react to fatigue.
I can be sign of drowsiness unreasonable shout, the general nervousness and a potiraniye of eyes. These are already late signs of overfatigue and you should not bring to them. Children become more senior at drowsiness ""manual"", ask on hands to the parent, cling to him. Begin to move to a neyuklyuzha, falter and lose coordination of movements, or on the contrary - become hyperactive, move sharply and quickly, rustle. As if try to splash out energy is late sign of overfatigue too. When degree of drowsiness reaches the peak - the child begins to complain, cry and protest to attempt to put him to bed. To check whether the child is overexcited or just plays - easily. It is enough to offer it a new game or a toy - the tired child will not react, and playful and active will at once switch attention to a novelty.
It is worth paying attention that if the child begins ""to rage"" in time close for sleeping, it is important to displace attention and to offer quiet games, to take a heat bath or other methods which became already habitual to parents, for derivation of the child.
The hyperactive behavior has very big minus - the overexcited child cannot calm down itself, as a result - he begins to sob, kick both cries until is tired and will not fall asleep. Therefore it is very important to reveal early signs of drowsiness in your child and to learn to seize these moments to put the child to bed in time. Similar identifications of signs of fatigue will help also the child to have the correct habits and feelings in the future.
Babies sleep much. A lot.
For day it seems that the child sleeps very little if he sleeps in general. However, the baby about half a year within a day sleeps from 14 to 22 hours, and the World Health Organization confirms these figures as optimum.
The dream of the baby is during the day indistinct on sound sleep, superficial and a somnolence, on half an hour, hour, to a couple of hours and in the sum enough for rest of its small organism is gained. By a year this figure decreases to 12, and by three years - till 9 o'clock a dream. Therefore if it seems to you that the kid mixed day with a night, sleeps very little or on the contrary much, you should not worry. The mode of a dream is set by 6-7 months and the most part of wakefulness goes in the afternoon, and a dream - to night. By 8 months, as a rule, the child already sleeps continuously of 5 o'clock at night.
Increase in an interval between a dream
Your child can sleep on half an hour, then be awake hour and again for half an hour fall asleep. Perhaps, the child perceives this form now as comfortable, but we will remember that he does not operate the body also habits to establish itself is not able. Only the parent can teach the child to the correct habits, identify the feelings and draw from them conclusions.
Try to increase gradually intervals between withdrawal for sleeping at the kid, ten-twenty minutes. You do not bring to crying and shout, but so far the child is cheerful and happy, plays with a hand of mom or chews a diaper/rattle/teething toy - let chew. The mode of a dream is useful and it makes sense after half a year, till this time of the child it is necessary to bring to the mode of a dream gradually.
Habit to sleep without parentsIn the first months after the birth, the child needs heat of parents for a sense of security nearby. The small child, having woken up, can be frightened, having remained one. The excellent decision which is recognized everywhere is the crib pristavleniye to a bed of parents. In this case mom can always give a hand to the kid, giving a sense of security and heat, but at the same time risk to wake the child the movements or to do much harm to it in a dream - decreases.
Gradually change methods which you apply to withdrawal for sleeping. Refuse a motion sickness on hands, it also does not do well to a back of parents, the child becomes heavier and on a waist there is big loading. If the child got used to fall asleep during feeding, transfer process to horizontal - lying on a bed. The child gets used to fall asleep on a motionless plain surface, but not on hands of parents, and with falling asleep in a bed of problems in the future will not arise.
You do not awake the sleeping childThere is nothing worse, than the child who was violently brought out of a phase of a deep sleep. If your child fell asleep, allow it to sleep so long how many it will be required to it.
Of course, realities of modern life of active parents and the schedule of work of policlinic not always coincide with needs of the child, and it needs to be considered too. Besides understanding of signs of drowsiness at children about whom it is written above try to reveal for yourself signs of different phases of a dream in your child.
Deep sleep (strong closed eyes, deep and measured breath, lack of the movement of eyes under centuries) and a superficial dream (the movement of eyes till centuries, the broken breath rhythm, sighs, twitching of hands and legs) differ. And if your kid sleeps during the visit to the doctor tight, take time for a conversation with the doctor, ask questions before survey. You easily determine by breath that the kid passed into other phase and will be able to wake him without loss.
Do not interrupt the child's sleep to please to the personal convenience
It would seem, it is seductive to arrange the child's dream under the tasks that he slept when parents need to make chores, to work, be engaged in something interesting to itself. Of course, own interests are very important for the adult not to fail in household bail and not to become isolated on the child.
However, the child's dream in many respects is the base for the healthy central nervous system, behavior, behavioural reactions, development of intelligence and many other major aspects of life of the baby. You should not make a compromise with the child's dream if you had sudden affairs. Any business can be transferred, just it will be not so convenient for the adult. Instead of forcing the baby to sleep according to the schedule convenient to you, make the schedule of the affairs with floating time of execution that it was possible to get to the moment of rest of the child.
Divide time of a dream and time of feedingFor newborns in the nature of things to sleep right after food, at meal time, instead of food. But the child becomes more senior, the interval between a dream and feeding is more it is necessary to do.
Besides that right after food the child can otrygnut ""superfluous"", and after a meal often there are desires in a toilet at small children. To change clothes and wash away the sleeping child - that still an adventure, and gives us the chance to look on point above in the text - not to awake the child in a phase of a deep sleep. Gradually increase an interval even if after a meal the kid sleepy and sluggishly blinks. Distract it for a while a game, a conversation, the fairy tale. It is useful to draw for the child, showing him possibilities of own hands, to train in fine motor skills.
You do not awake the child if he cries in a dream
For the child quite naturally to make sounds and to fuss in a dream. He can sneeze, hiccup, cry or even to scream, at the same time without waking up. To do a convulsive sigh or an exhalation, to pull hands and legs. These are signs of calm central nervous system before immersion in a deep phase of a dream, you should not panic or be frightened if the child suddenly screamed a little seagull on all apartment, having frightened a cat, dad and neighbors. Quietly approach a bed and make sure that the child really sleeps. You can softly put a palm on a tummy, warming, or the easy warm hot-water bottle heated by the iron or the heat a diaper. The feeling of heat signals the kid that he not one, it will help it without waking up to calm down and continue to sleep. If the kid continues to cry, be nervous and sleeps badly - try not to awake him and to take at the same time on hands. Perhaps, he was before going to bed overexcited and cannot independently calm down, for this purpose he needs heat of parents and there can be a soft whisper or ""white"" noise.Young parents in general very difficult are given the first months and even years of parenthood. Many things it is impossible to google, learn and transfer someone's experience to the child, kids different, in families a different situation and different habits. These rules described above will help parents not only better to understand the kid, but also to teach him to develop healthy habits of a dream.