Healthy sound sleep — an indispensable condition of harmonious physical and psychological development of the child. There are several recommendations which will help to teach the baby to fill up quietly on all night long.
Importance of a day regimen
The quality and duration of night sleep in many respects depends on how the child spends the day. Day of the baby usually consists of feedings, wakefulness and a dream. Such sequence as during sleep all organism, including digestive tract, will be able to have a rest will be ideal.
Food is one of important components of the mode of children's day. Correctly adjusted mode of feedings will help the kid to learn and to have a rest correctly. Today feeding on demand is very popular. Undoubtedly, this method has advantages. However it is hardly possible to carry a sound and long night and daytime sleep to them. The child gets used to eat often and little by little, and the feeling of hunger can prevent it to get enough sleep. If the baby gorges on enough, at it need to wake up for the sake of food too often vanishes.
Correctly to set a diet, it is necessary to consider age of the kid. Newborn children need food approximately each 3 hours including at night. Of course, at this time mom will need to wake up and feed dithat. However later the child begins to wake up not out of hunger any more, and on a habit. If at this moment to give it water or a pacifier, he will calm down and again will fall asleep. Thus, its night sleep will cease to be interrupted for the sake of food soon. Day food has to have a certain schedule too. It can not be rigid: each mom chooses time of feedings itself, proceeding from convenience to herself, family and the baby. However existence of the mode will accustom the child to good nutrition, but not constant having a snack and also will help it to find feeling of confidence that he will receive necessary food at the time. Schooling of the kid to a day regimen (certain sequence of feedings, wakefulness and a dream) first can seem difficult. And the most difficult part of it often is laying of the baby to sleep. Many mothers should rock to sleep a long time the kids, to roll them in the car or a carriage for the only purpose — to lull. It is process difficult and taking away a lot of time. Will to teach the child fill up with the best exit from such situation independently. For this purpose just put the baby to sleep in a bed with a favourite toy, a blanket or a pacifier — who as loves, wish it a kind dream and leave the room. Most likely, loud crying will be in reply heard. Disregard it for some time. If the kid does not calm down, come to him in 5-10 minutes, a little bit shake, calm and again put. And so, yet will not fall asleep. In 2-3 days of schooling the kid will fall asleep when you put it in a bed! It is very effective way in spite of the fact that it can seem not to the most tender in relation to the kid. However actually, having a little bit suffered, the child will acquire very important skill — to fill up independently that will make its dream quieter and desired for the next years of the childhood. It is also necessary to pay attention and that the kid, having fallen asleep on hands, most likely will wake up as soon as he finds their absence. Therefore it is better at once to teach him to fill up in a bed. So, if the kid gets used to eat and sleep on the mode in the afternoon, then he, most likely, will learn and to sleep the whole night. However there are some more nuances.
General recommendations
Besides a day regimen two more factors are necessary for healthy night sleep: active wakefulness and comfortable conditions of a dream. Before falling asleep, the kid has to "be tired", want to sleep. Make his wakefulness interesting, filled with new information and physical activity, and he will feel exhaustion and need of rest. However just before a dream of a game it is better to choose quiet, not exciting. It is also necessary to create to the baby pleasant conditions for a dream. In the children's bedroom there has to be a cool fresh air, the muffled light, silence. You can also allow the child the son-in-law with yourself in a bed a favourite soft toy, a small pillow, a blanket. All this will help the kid to calm down and to fall asleep quietly and with pleasure.