Sleep

How many time should sleep child? Mothers are often asked about this. Of course, only the child can respond to him. One needs to sleep a lot, the other - amazingly little. If a child gets enough food, if it is convenient for him, if he is out in the open air and sleeps in a cool place, then you can let him decide how much sleep he needs.

Most children in the first months sleep from feeding to feeding if they get enough food and have normal digestion. There are, however, children who from the very beginning wake up early not because something disturbs them. If you have such a child, you do not need to do anything.

Growing up, the child gradually sleeps less and less. Most likely at first it will be noticeable in the afternoon. Over time, he remains awake and in other periods throughout the day. Each child develops his own habits associated with sleep, and usually he wakes up at the same time. By the end of the first year, he twice slept in the afternoon, and between year and a half refuses one day's sleep.

Only in infancy you can let the child decide for himself how much to sleep. At the age of two, the child becomes a more complex being. Excitation, anxiety, fear of bad dreams, rivalry with brothers - all this can prevent him from getting the amount of sleep needed.

Sleeping. It is more preferable for a child to get used to the idea that immediately after eating, he goes to bed.(Sometimes a child resists it and wants to talk after a meal.) I'd like to prevent it from happening.) Well, if he gets used to falling asleep in his crib alone, at least after three months, when the gases stop tormenting.

Most children get used to silence or to a small noise. Therefore, at first, it makes no sense to walk on tiptoe and talk in a whisper - you only teach the child to wake up with an unexpected noise. A baby and an older child who is used to ordinary sounds probably will not wake up if funny laughing acquaintances look in, turn on the TV or someone will go into his room.

On the back or on the stomach? Most babies prefer to sleep on their stomachs from the very beginning. This is especially true of children who have gas: when the stomach is pressed to the bed, it relieves pain.

Other children do not care, and some like to sleep on their backs. There are two drawbacks to the position on the back during sleep. If the child is nauseous, -he can suffocate with vomiting. In addition, he usually turns his head in one direction - toward the middle of the room. This can lead to the fact that his head is flattened. The brain will not hurt, and the head will gradually improve, but it may take several years. If you start on time, you can teach him to turn his head to both sides. To do this, each time you need to change the position of the legs and head when you put the child to bed. Then, if he likes to look in some part of the room, he will spend half the time on one side, half on the other. After a few weeks, the child becomes so accustomed to his usual posture on his stomach or back that it is very difficult to lay it in another way.

I think it's better to let the child get used to sleeping on the stomach right from the start, if he wants it. Later, when he learns to turn around, he can change his habits.

Try to teach the child to wake up on mornings later or lie quietly until you wake up. In the in the middle of the first year, most children are beginning to get used to waking up a little later;at first they wake up between five and six in the morning. But some parents develop a habit of listening to the child and jumping up as soon as he moves, and therefore the child does not have the opportunity to fall asleep again or just lie down for a while. As a result, a child may be two or three years old, and parents still have to get up before seven in the morning. A child is so accustomed to this, that, hardly waking up, requires their society.

Therefore, if you want to sleep until seven or eight in the morning, wake up on the alarm clock, not the movements of the child. Set the alarm for five minutes after the time of its normal rise and every day, change the alarm for five minutes later. If he wakes up before the signal, he may fall asleep again, so that you will not hear, or can learn to lie still without sleep, longer and longer. If he starts to whine, wait: maybe he will calm down. Of course, if he starts crying loudly, you have to get up. But try again in a month.

After six months, place the child in a separate room, if possible. If it is convenient, the child can sleep from the very birth in a separate room;parents in this case should be nearby to hear if he cries. But if he first sleeps in one room with his parents, it's time to resettle him in 6 months. He now has enough strength to take care of himself, and habits and preferences have not yet been developed. It is advisable that he does not sleep in the parents' room after 9 months. Otherwise, he will get used to and will be afraid to sleep alone. The older the child, the harder it will be to translate.

In addition, the child may be frightened by the sexual act of the parents, whom he does not understand and misinterpret. Parents generally believe that there is no danger if the child is sleeping. But children's psychiatrists describe the cases when the child woke up and was very shocked, and parents did not even know it. But if the child can not be placed separately, the danger of habituation is not very high, and parents should not be particularly worried. If possible, put a screen between the beds.

Does the child sleep alone or with another child, older, usually a purely practical matter. If there is a possibility, it's good when every child has a room, especially when they are growing up. In this case, everyone has a place for their own things and the opportunity to be alone. The main disadvantage of staying two children in one room is that they will awaken each other not at the right time.

Do not put the child in your bed. Sometimes a child often wakes up at night and begins to cry or several times goes into the parents' room. In this case,

to sleep, parents put him to bed with him. At the time, this seems like the most practical solution, but it usually turns out to be a mistake. Even if in the following weeks the child stops worrying, he clings to the safety of the parent's bed, and it is extremely difficult to expose him from it. Therefore always firmly and resolutely return it to your own bed. I consider it prudent on no pretext to put the child in a parent's bed, even for the sake of pleasure, when the father is on a business trip.