Many parents complain for the sleepless nights connected with a bad dream of the child. At the same time by scientists it is proved that the kid can sleep, without waking up, 6-8 hours, already since two-month age if nothing disturbs him. To teach the child to sleep at night, it is necessary to attend to this question at once after the birth.
That the child learned to sleep at night, it is necessary to understand how there takes place night sleep. And it consists of two phases – phases of a REM sleep and a phase of a deep sleep which serially replace each other. Newborn children are not able to connect them together therefore often wake up at night. To teach the child to sleep at night, it is necessary to teach him to connect a REM and deep sleep. If not to make it in infancy, then it will be even more difficult to accustom the kid at later age.
When the kid is born, it is necessary to follow the following recommendations surely: - try to organize for the child a separate berth in the bed (and it is even better – in the separate room) where will not interfere with it excess noise, light and other factors, adverse for falling asleep;
- create to the kid a withdrawal ritual about a dream (for example, bathing, hygienic procedures, clothing, feeding, reading the fairy tale, falling asleep); - do not jump up at night on each rustle and do not take the kid on handles on the first call – give it the chance to try to fall asleep most (naturally, it is impossible to keep the child waiting too long, breaking into tears); - if the kid began to cry, remove the cause (a wet diaper, tummy pains, hunger), shake him on handles a little, try to put to bed again, sit nearby, stroke him and again give the chance to fall asleep independently); - organize the mode so that the kid did not fall asleep at a breast or with a small bottle, food should not be associated at it with a dream; - in spite of the fact that many doctors do not recommend to use a dummy, the healthy sleep of mom is not less important for the kid therefore it is necessary for some children (especially that who is on artificial feeding) to satisfy a sosatelny reflex; - do not turn on the light in the room of the child at night if he woke up – he has to understand in infancy that it not time for games; - cultivate patience in the child during wakefulness – so he to learn to fall asleep at night independently, without waiting for your participation in process of connection of phases of a REM and deep sleep. Following this instruction, you will be able to teach to sleep by three-four months of life of the child him at night, without waking up more than 6 hours. Having taught the kid to connect dream phases at such early age, you will render it the invaluable help, its sound sleep and well-rested mom – guarantee of its full development. At more advanced age to teach the child will sleep at night slightly more difficult, however the majority of the listed recommendations will help to make it much quicker and without any problem for mentality of the kid.