Babies fall asleep in a different way

It's time for the child to go to bed. His eyelids stick together, and in your arms he starts to peck with his nose. His eyes completely closed, but his eyelids continue to tremble, his breath is still uneven, his fists clenched and his legs bent, he can tremble, twitch and smile fleetingly - as they say, "angels will laugh."He can even continue to suck furiously. As soon as you bend down to put the "sleeping" child in his crib and quietly slip away, the child wakes up. It was because he was not quite asleep. When you laid him down, he was still in a state of superficial, fast sleep.

Now try again. Shake, feed, reproach on your hands or use your checked lulling ritual, but keep on. Soon grimaces and twitching of the child will disappear, his breathing will become more even and superficial, his muscles will completely relax. Brushes, first clenched into fists, will be squashed, and the handles and legs will hang limply( a sign of slow sleep, known as flaccid limbs).Now you can put the child and break out of the room, breathing a sigh of relief that the child is finally sleeping.

Night lesson number one: babies need to be laid to sleep, and not just put to sleep.

Why? Babies in the first few months fall asleep, pass through the initial period of superficial sleep, lasting about twenty minutes at . Then they gradually move to a deep sleep, from which it is difficult to awaken them. If you hurry and put the baby in the crib during this initial period, a shallow sleep, he will usually wake up. It is this fact of a child's dream that explains that it is difficult for a child to lay down that "we have to wait until he completely falls asleep before we can put it."In the following months, many children are able to enter a state of deep sleep more quickly, without a preliminary superficial sleep. Learn to recognize the phases of your child's sleep. During a deep sleep, you can transfer the sleeping child from the car seat to the bed without waking him up.