When the child is born, parents for long time forget that it is possible to sleep the whole night without awakening, the kid eats rather often including at night.
It is required to you
- - small bottle with water
Instruction
1. In Soviet period it was accepted to feed the child on hours from the birth, and at night at them was 6-tichasovy having rummaged - since midnight and till six in the morning. If the kid in this interval wanted to eat, it was just given water. After a while the children's organism got used to such schedule and there were almost no awakenings. In it there are pluses: a possibility of full night sleep, accustoming of the child to the mode; but also minuses too: the newborn baby needs to eat much more often than the adult since he has small portions, and long breaks can cause problems with a stomach, also it badly affects breastfeeding - development of milk can decrease.
2. Now generally feeding upon the demand of the child, i.e. not through certain periods practices, and at his desire - it can be also in an hour, and maybe in 4 hours as that will be wanted by the kid. On the one hand - it is good, the organism itself knows when it has to eat, but with another is an eternal binding to the child, especially, if breastfeeding - it is impossible to leave far since the child in it the moment can get hungry and feed him in public places - a question esthetic. Of course, it is possible to find a way out, to be decanted and give it from a small bottle, but certain inconveniences nevertheless are available. And at night the kid can wake up rather often therefore mom will badly get enough sleep.
3. Parents want to transfer the child to the mode when he sleeps the whole night without awakenings as soon as possible. When it is absolutely small, it is not necessary to do it better. If you nurse, then move up a crib to the or as a last resort put the kid to yourself, then during his next feeding you should not rise and the child sleeps quieter near mom. There are opponents of a joint dream with the child, reasoning it with the fact that then it is heavy to disaccustom him to a parental bed. In it there is an element of truth, here it is already necessary to consider all pluses and minuses. There are children who almost since the birth wake up 1-2 times and quickly fall asleep, in that case it is possible and to rise, but when the child demands to eat each hour, several sleepless nights will allow to forget about all negative sides of a dream with the kid.
4. When your kid ceases to eat at night, it is impossible to tell, here everything is individual. Some already from half a year well sleep, and some and up to 2 years want to have a bite something. It is impossible to deprive violently of the child of night feeding if it is not ready to it since it can cause a psychological trauma.
5. But if your kid wakes up at night, will take couple of sips and again sleeps, then business is obvious not in hunger, and it is rather in calm that mom is near. In this case, it is possible to try to disaccustom the child to this habit gradually. It is worth replacing feeding with usual water or children's tea. It will be possible it against such replacement in the beginning, but after a while at it need to wake up will disappear. It is possible just to stay at the time of awakening with the kid nearby, to stroke it, to tell the fairy tale, sometimes it is quite enough that he fell asleep again, and after a while in general ceased to wake up.