Parents always enjoy appearance of the kid in the house and with affection observe how it grows, learns to speak and go. Especially parents like to watch how their kid sleeps. In the baby period of the child sleep the most part of days, waking up for feeding and short wakefulness.
How to put the child to bed correctly
Mothers are often concerned by the fact that the child cannot fall asleep and cries much. Tears and shouts in the course of falling asleep of kids of baby age are connected with nervous system, during this period of life it is not strengthened, and the child cannot resist to external irritants. But it does not belong to those cases when the child is ill or is overexcited.
Several recommendations will help parents to understand how to put the child to bed correctly.
1. The child falls asleep quietly if mom is near. On hands at mom the kid calms down and feels safe. It is especially good when mom nurses and feeding continues about one year or one and a half years. Having sated and having calmed down, the child falls asleep without tears and disorders.
2. Young parents, being with the kid, watch closely his behavior. Therefore as soon as the kid begins to rub eyes and to pozevat, he has a tearfulness - it is a sure sign of the fact that it is ready for sleeping. It is impossible to miss such moment, to put the child it is necessary to bed right now.
3. To put the child it is necessary to bed in in advance prepared comfortable clothes. It has to be soft and rather free.
4. Before an evening dream of the kid it is necessary to expiate. It is necessary to make it hour for 2-3 if bathing makes exciting impact on the child, or shortly before a dream if the child is calmed by such procedure. At the time of evening bathing the child has to be quiet, it is possible to add the calming oil to water for carrying out an aromatherapy.
5. Before going to bed the kid can make massage. Stroking of a tummy or a back weakens and calms the child. This simple procedure will help to put the child to bed. It is possible to turn on quietly quiet music, it can be classical music or singing of birds, noise of the sea or a rain. Quite perhaps, the child will fall asleep only under mom's lullaby, her voice will calm him.
6. Evening before going to bed has to pass in a quiet, friendly situation. The child sharply reacts to the negative atmosphere, is frightened shouts and is afraid of abuse. If it is necessary to put to bed the child of a little advanced age, then you should not include viewing cartoons in the evening program. It is enough to play quiet games, to read it fairy tales, to sing quietly the song.
7. The room for a dream has to be well aired, temperature should not exceed 22ºС. In the stuffy and hot room it will be difficult for child to fall asleep and in a dream he can wake up from a lack of fresh air. The blanket has to be easy and comfortable.
8. There is a category of children whom it is possible to put to bed only with a motion sickness. It is just necessary for them that they were taken on hands and shaken. With it it is necessary to reconcile, break such habit is not necessary. Except as to a hysterics, it will not lead to anything good.
Rituals in order that it is easy to put the child to bed
If to the child half a year was already executed, for half an hour to a dream it is possible to carry out daily procedures for perception of a dream as everyday occurrence.
For this purpose before putting the child to bed, it is possible to lead discussions about the spent day, to show in a window as the sun sits down, birdies on a lodging for the night fly away to the nests. I.e. to express in words all process of end of day and to prepare the child for sleeping. The repeatability of such actions will lead to the fact that the kid will perceive quite adequately falling asleep process. Such ritual will become a habit and will help parents to put the child to bed without tears.
Over time it is necessary to accustom the child to independent falling asleep. It is necessary to do it gradually. The period of accustoming can be up to three weeks. Only the attentive attitude towards behavior of the kid will allow to find an optimum way to put him to bed without tears.