Small children differ from adult in the fact that they have the day regimen. They eat and sleep at the same time. The needs for a dream decrease in process of growing of the kid.
Features of a dream
The child at the age of one year any more not the baby, at him is developed the intellectual sphere, lines of the personality appear. However in terms of physiology is the still quickly growing organism consuming a large amount of energy which can be filled with the dream sufficient on duration and depth.
At this age the daily rhythm of a dream and wakefulness is already created, and children only in extreme cases confuse day and night. It usually is the result of the physiological discomfort felt by the child or owing to any somatic violations. However, as well as at chest age, the one-year-old child continues to remain sensitive to any external discomfort, its dream for this reason can be faltering. That to avoid it, mothers should think in advance of a dry diaper for the kid (as a rule, in it such need, especially at night still remains), to feed, but not to overfeed, the child, to air the room, to prepare a comfortable children's bed.
It is better to go about the own business after the kid deeply fell asleep, and for this purpose it is necessary to look whether face muscles relaxed and whether cams were unclenched.
How many does the one-year-old child sleep?
On average at one-year-old age the healthy child sleeps 12–14 hours. The lunch dream makes 1.5-3 hours of them. It is less, than at the baby whose dream equals to 17-19 hours, but also seriously exceeds this indicator for children of the baby period of life. Quite high duration of a dream of the one-year-old child is explained by his physiological features.
The children's organism continues to grow intensively, the energy necessary for the correct development of the central nervous system collects.
If aged about one year it was important to parents to create the daily mode of life of the child, to exclude confusion to them day and night, at one-year-old age it is already necessary to form actually the dream mode. It is for this purpose important to observe identical time of withdrawal for sleeping, both in the afternoon, and in the evening, it is correct to plan hygienic procedures, to create steady accustoming to a withdrawal ritual for sleeping: reading fairy tales, the muffled night lamp light, a favourite toy not only will help the kid to fall asleep, but also will create at it the corresponding habit. Correctly created daily mode of a dream and wakefulness of the one-year-old child is the major means providing it health and the correct development of the central nervous system.