Dream – one of the most significant aspects of life of the small child. If the kid has difficulties with a dream or falling asleep, it, as a rule, speaks about some psychological difficulties, the increased uneasiness, discomfort. At the baby there are not a lot of opportunities to tell about the difficulties, and the interrupted sleep is some kind of sign for parents that the kid needs support. What, is not difficult to define at all.
Instruction
1. If your chest baby sleeps badly, often wakes up and cries, make sure that the child has enough milk. Weighing will help with it. The possible reasons of concern, a bad dream is a shortage of weight owing to insufficient amount of milk at mother. Try to solve a lactation problem: adjust the mode (the dream and rest have to be qualitative); keep to a diet; increase amount of liquid in a diet; do massage of a thorax; acupressure for increase in a lactation.
2. The first three months try to swaddle the child for the period of a dream. Children in diapers wake up less often and sleep longer. When movements of the kid are limited, he has less chances to wake up.
3. Some kids constantly wake up at dawn. Observe what can wake the child. Perhaps, noise of cars in the yard or light getting into windows. The kid can wake up when his dream passes from one phase into another: in this case try to calm the baby, having slightly clapped on a back, having covered.
4. During a daytime sleep allow the child most fall asleep for 45 minutes three times a day, others sleep twice on an hour and a half. Each kid can have the schedule of a daytime sleep, and you should adapt to it.
5. There are children - "larks" by the nature, and you will not be able to change the course of their inner clock. If such kid badly sleeps at night or gets up early, accustom him to lay down gradually for 20-30 minutes earlier, than usually.
6. Develop a ritual in the form of series of habitual actions (bathing, feeding, a dream) which will help the kid to pass from wakefulness for sleeping.
7. Some kids are more senior roll up a hysterics before going to bed. In most cases it serves as a discharge without which the baby cannot switch from one state to another. Find for such kid more time for preparation for sleeping, devote evening to silent, quiet games, and set the accurate mode in the afternoon.