Introduction: As a family with children, the biggest wish of mothers should be to coax the "baby" to sleep early, so that you can have a little hard-won "free time", you can take time to shop online, brush your favorite TV series, or you can take a beautiful rest. However, putting the baby to sleep is not the end, so that they can sleep peacefully all night is the focus.
Because sleep is an important guarantee for the baby's physical and intellectual development. Sleep is not good, very harmful.
Lack of sleep will reduce the secretion of growth hormone, and the baby will not grow tall!
Poor sleep, resulting in the baby's inability to concentrate, irritability and crying, affecting intellectual development!
Irregular sleep will lead to a decrease in immunity and affect health!
Mothers who sleep poorly for a long time in order to coax their baby to sleep will also have many health problems, such as: irritability, high blood pressure, headaches, and even depression.
Therefore, there is a "sleeping scum baby" at home, and the mother is really tired. To this end, I specifically consulted a nurse mother, who used her own personal experience to teach me a lesson and share it with you here.
There are 3 main reasons why babies always wake up at night
To solve the problem of the baby waking up at night, first we need to understand the main reason for the baby's night wake-up, and then go to the right medicine. Babies wake up at night, there may be the following 3 main reasons.
1. The baby's big motor development
"Three flips, six sittings, seven rolls, eight climbs will walk", every time the baby develops a big movement, it must be accompanied by the experience of "self-release" at night, which is the process that the baby must go through on the road to development. We can comfort the baby, but try not to hold it to sleep, usually, the baby will adapt to his "new skills" in a week or so.
Nurse mother reminds: we should pay attention to the baby's sleep safety, it is best to let the baby sleep in the fenced crib to avoid the baby falling into bed. Usually, when you take a nap, you should also accompany your baby to avoid accidents that are unattended.
2. When the baby is sick or teething
When sick or teething stage, belongs to the special period of the baby's discomfort, need more patience from parents, this time, we have to give the baby more comfort and pampering. Do a good job of corresponding care, can alleviate the baby's discomfort.
For example, when the following common situations occur, the nurse mother gives some small tricks:
Nasal congestion: When the baby's nose is congested, we can use sea salt water to drip the nose and clean the baby's nasal cavity to ensure smooth breathing.
Cough: Keep the room moist and raise the pillow slightly while sleeping.
Teething: You can massage your baby's gums with clean gauze before bedtime or during the day; provide your baby with a tooth bite toy to relieve teething discomfort.
3. The baby's stomach is uncomfortable
The baby's digestive function has not yet been perfected, and there will often be problems such as flatulence and indigestion, which will make the baby's small belly uncomfortable, and it is also easy to cause the baby to wake up at night.
Nurse mother support: At this time, we can let the baby use the aircraft holding posture to alleviate the baby's discomfort, we can also let the baby touch the baby's small belly clockwise to alleviate, or let the baby sleep on his stomach to relieve it.
Dealing with the night awakening baby, there are some experiences that are unreliable
There are babies who wake up frequently at night, and the mother and family do not sleep well, and they will feel anxious after a long time. At this time, there are always "people who come over" to give us support, but we have to polish our eyes, some experience is not reliable, and may even cause obstacles for children to sleep all night later.
1, a hum will be hugged up and coaxed
Some parents, the baby has to hurry up and coax the slightest movement. At this time, the baby may not be awake, just a transition of the sleep cycle, and later he will sleep steadily on his own again.
Excessive reassurance will not only really "wake up" the baby, but also may destroy the child's self-soothing ability, causing the child to wake up more frequently at night.
2. Wake up the child to feed at a fixed point
Some parents have the habit of waking up the baby to drink milk at a fixed point, afraid of hungry baby. In fact, this is equivalent to adjusting the biological clock, which will destroy the baby's sleep law and is not conducive to the baby's sleep all night.
Nurse mother support: we can feed in advance at night, and do not wake up the baby frequently at night. If your baby is 9 months old, he still has frequent night milk every night (3 or more times) and feeds only to soothe. At this time, you can consider gradually weaning off the night milk and maintaining the integrity of sleep.
3. Change diapers frequently and urinate at fixed points
Some mothers are afraid that the baby will hold the urine or cover the fart, change the baby several times a night to not get wet, or pick up and pee. The original intention is good, but doing so is equivalent to putting a "small alarm clock" on the baby, which is not conducive to the formation of the law of defecation, nor is it conducive to the cultivation of the baby's biological clock.
The nurse mother pointed out the correct approach: as long as the baby can continue to sleep peacefully, indicating that the diapers are still relatively dry, don't toss and wake up. Afraid of red farts, we can do a good job of daytime care: change diapers frequently, wash small PP frequently, and use hip cream more.
The nurse mother shared her personal experience and gave 4 ways to solve the problem of night wake-up
Nurse mothers have also experienced the problem of the baby's night wake-up, but they have been solved by her groping herself, and now according to her personal experience, the 4 ways to solve the baby's night wake-up are shared with everyone, hoping that the mothers can sleep all night and take fewer detours.
1. Maintain the baby's stable biological clock
After the baby is 3 months old, parents should pay attention to helping the baby form a regular biological clock, and then do their best to maintain the biological clock, do not destroy it, and families with babies by multiple people or different people during the day and night need to do so.
There is also a very important but easily overlooked point in maintaining the biological clock: the work and rest should be as consistent as possible with the inner biological clock, not sleeping when it should be awake and waking up when it is needed. For example, not sleeping well at night, catching up on sleep during the day, or going to bed at a time when you are not usually sleeping, these will cause problems.
The reference sleep schedule for 4 to 9 months: wake up at 6 to 7 o'clock in the morning, go to bed at 8-9 o'clock for 1.5 to 2 hours; take a second sleep at 12 to 1 o'clock at noon (that is, the most prosthetic nap) for about 2 hours; take a nap for half an hour at 4 to 5 o'clock in the evening, and fall asleep at 7 o'clock at night. (Evening sleep gradually disappears during 6 to 9 months).
2. Give your baby an intimate bedtime ritual
Every day before going to bed, we can send a fixed "process signal" to the baby, for example, we can bathe the baby, do a full body massage, eat enough milk, and then put it on the cot and say to the baby: "The baby is going to sleep" ~ or sing to the baby, quiet storytelling.
In addition, we want to form a fixed "environmental signal", which can be changed at the same time and slowly dimmed as a "light signal". Or you can put an item with a mom's smell next to your baby's pillow.
Bedtime rituals can allow babies to calm the excitement of the day and calm down and prepare to go to bed, which is also a rare parent-child time.
3. Provide a comfortable sleeping environment for the baby
Too hot, too dry, and uncomfortable beds can be the reason why your baby can't sleep soundly. Curtains are best to choose a strong shading, do not always turn on the night light.
A comfortable sleeping environment can greatly save sleep time: the room temperature is around 22 ~ 24 ° C; the humidifier can be opened appropriately to keep the room not dry; to ensure indoor air circulation; the mattress is not too soft; choose a light and breathable and skin-friendly sleeping bag.
4. Correctly cope with the baby's night awakening
Babies wake up at night "alarm" is graded, and mothers must learn to respond flexibly:
Hum: Wait and watch, maybe it's a "fake alarm", turn over and sleep again.
The movement becomes louder: make a white noise, tap it, pick it up and put it down.
Sudden crying: Sometimes the child has night terrors, and you can try to wake up the baby and continue to soothe.
epilogue
The baby's poor sleep has become a problem of the century for every mother, and there is no one. And the frequent night awakenings among them made my mother most devastated. When it comes to this problem, the mothers are all in the same vendetta, presumably tortured by the baby who cried in the middle of the night.
Can a mother with a "sleeping scum" baby only survive? I don't think so, these methods are given to the mothers, hoping to help you get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible.
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