The small child in family is not only joy and happiness, but still huge responsibility. Responsibility for education, development and, of course, health. The dream of the child belongs to an integral part of his life and therefore it is worth paying on it special attention.
You gave birth to the kid, you are happy and happy, but there passes some time, and something changes in your life. The child ceases to sleep at the nights, and in the afternoon it is difficult to force to be awake. What to do if it brought down the mode? Remember, since the birth you have to seek to develop that mode which will coincide as much as possible with regime of all family for the kid. Choose time of night sleep of the child, convenient for you, it can be time from 21:00 till 05:00, or from 23:00 till 07:00, can be and other options, everything depends on your tenor of life. Chose? Let's adhere to this time and to try not to break it.
A part is played also by the choice of the place of a dream. Here several options are possible. The most widespread option of arrangement - a crib in the room of parents. Conveniently for both mom, and kid. More often it is used in the first year of life of the kid and approximately up to 3-4 years.
The excellent option for kids of one year is also more senior - a crib in the children's room. The child gets used to responsibility and studies independence in the personal space.
There is one more option: the child's dream in a bed of parents which is practiced by many married couples and often consider it an optimal variant, forgetting about the mass of factors which cannot be carried to a healthy sleep of the kid. That the child slept peacefully all night long, control his daytime sleep! It is worth remembering that average daily need of the child for a dream changes with its growth, the child is more senior, the less it is required to it time for a full-fledged dream, and so: aged from 0 up to 3 months it needs 16-20 hours, from 6 months it is 14.5 hours, in 12 months - 13.5 hours, in 2 years - 13 hours, 4 years - 11.5 hours, 6 years - 9.5 hours, 12 years - 8.5 hours. For example, the 6th monthly child sleeps about 14.5 hours a day that he quietly overslept all night long or more precisely than 8 hours, in the afternoon he needs to sleep no more than 6.5 hours. Also be not afraid to wake the sleepyhead if he exceeds the day limit, otherwise night for you most likely will be sleepless. It is impossible to tell anything about feeding of the child at night because most often exactly at night there are various problems, and feeding - one of them. By pediatricians it is established that the newborn can wake up from 1 to 2 times in a night to eat. At the age of 3-6 months he has enough also one feeding, and after 6 months the child is capable to sleep all night long without waking up for feeding! And he can wake up on some other the reasons which are not relating to feeding or wants attention, swing, sucking, it is simple to get to mom on handles. Of course, it is possible and to encourage all whims of your kid, but then you will pass into the autonomous mode of existence at all. Therefore try not to finish feeding a little the kid in penultimate feeding that just before a dream he densely and nourishingly gorged on. But do not overfeed, from it the tummy and besides your dream and a dream of the kid can ache it will be spoiled. Active lifestyle of the kid, as well as possible will affect night sleep. In the afternoon it can be outdoor games, walks in the fresh air, a research of the outside world, and in the evening the best occupation for the kid reading fairy tales, viewing kind animated films and a mother's lullaby. All these actions - good preparation for quiet night sleep. The following three components of quiet night sleep of the kid is a bathing, clean and fresh air in the nursery both the convenient and correctly filled bed. Evening bathing increases the physical fatigue which collected in a day and also promotes good appetite. Fresh air surely has to be present at the nursery, do not forget to air daily the room and to do damp cleaning, air temperature has to be 18-20 degrees, humidity around 50-70%. Now about a bed. The mattress has to be dense and equal, it is also not recommended to use pillows up to 2 years, try to choose bed linen from natural fabrics, erase only it children's powders to avoid a skin allergy. And the last, choose a qualitative disposable diaper to the kid. The diaper is capable to improve qualitatively night sleep of the child, dry buttocks, without irritation and reddening on skin promotes a quiet healthy sleep.