Habit to rock to sleep small children in order that they calmed down and fell asleep, it is widespread quite widely. Many mothers and fathers resort to a motion sickness when the child begins to cry, be capricious, behave is too noisy and is playful.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to call a motion sickness useful to the child. Many pediatricians consider that in the course of a motion sickness the vestibular mechanism of the kid is exposed to excessive loading, and in the future it can negatively affect a condition healthof person. Besides, the child who got used to a constant motion sickness and sitting on hands can begin to be capricious, without having received a desirable portion of parental attention.
Therefore the child should be disaccustomed to a motion sickness sooner or later – then he will get used that the parental attention can be received also in other ways: through communication, a game, singing of skins or reading books. But to disaccustom to rocking the small child, it is necessary to apply the mass of forces and to show patience: usually process of breaking takes not less than 2-3 weeks.
To put the child to bed without a motion sickness, it is necessary to plan its withdrawal for sleeping not earlier than in four hours after awakening. It is possible to take the child on hands before going to bed, without rocking to sleep him at the same time. If the child dozed off at you on hands, make sure that he fell asleep rather strong, and only after that lay him in a bed. If for the child the ritual of a motion sickness is important and significant, it is necessary to create a new ritual which could replace fully a traditional motion sickness before going to bed. For example, the lullaby the song or the short fairy tale can quite become a new ritual. At the age of 8-11 months children very well perceive verbal communication with parents therefore it is the best of all to enter new rituals then when the child is 8-9 months old.
By the way, one more effective way of breaking of the child from a motion sickness – switching attention to any subject which very much is pleasant to it (for example, a big soft toy). The child has to understand that he will be able to receive a toy only when is in the bed. Putting the child to bed, put near him a toy and wish good night. Such maneuver, perhaps, it is necessary to do not one dozen times before the child gets used to it. But subsequently he will fall asleep quickly and quietly, without needing your constant presence near a bed.