The healthy sleep is very important for health and development of the baby. It is necessary and for mom of the kid to have a rest and restore forces for daily efforts and care of the child. When the baby badly sleeps at night, often wakes up, groans, both suffer – both the baby, and his mom.
Babies are not born with the established rhythms of wakefulness and a dream, their formation happens at newborns gradually. Looking after the kid, parents can observe several main stages of his life. The baby from the birth about half a year does not feel a difference between night and in the afternoon, he sleeps for 14-18 hours a day.
At first at the baby the 90-minute cycle of wakefulness and a dream prevails. The small interval of deep, sound sleep is replaced by a phase of a superficial dream during which the kid can easily wake up. Therefore after the kid fell asleep, do not turn on the TV, try to talk and move more quietly on the apartment. Its dream becomes very superficial and sensitive from time to time, any sounds can wake it during a superficial phase. Observe what else can awake the kid: noise of cars or other foreign sounds on the street. In this case transfer its bed to other room (in case its windows come to more silent party), or rearrange it far away from a window if there is no such opportunity.
You watch that the kid did not overheat and did not freeze at night, maybe, he wakes up often for these reasons. That it was more convenient to baby to sleep, the mattress in its bed should not be very soft. In process of growing of the kid of a phase of a deep sleep become longer, and superficial – is shorter therefore the kid gets used to sleep tight more time. At the age of six months he is capable to sleep quietly and tight all night long. If at the baby the daily mode of wakefulness and a dream already is set by this time, it is not necessary to awake the sleeping kid to feed him (even if feeding time already came). Otherwise, because of violation of the course of biological clock, there can be a failure in daily regime of the kid. The kid aged from six months is also more senior makes huge jump in the development: it begins to sit down, to creep, take the first steps, to go, speak. Nervous system of the kid sometimes does not cope with such rapid changes, and the child uneasily sleeps at night. To help the baby to sleep peacefully, stack him in the evening at the same time, after washing, clothing, a lullaby or the fairy tale on night. Make so that the bed of the kid was intended only for a dream: let the kid play in other place. Include a soft night lamp in the room of the kid. If the baby wakes up, then will see a familiar situation and objects: it will help it to fall asleep a quiet dream again.