Recently, Xiaobian found that many mothers are struggling with the same thing:
If the baby sleeps too long, should he wake up the baby to feed?
Behind this problem, in fact, there are 2 major worries hidden by the mothers.
One is: is it a disease for the baby to sleep too long?
As one of the moms asked: My baby is almost sleeping except for feeding, teasing her and ignoring it, sleeping when she eats, and eating when she wakes up. Is this normal? Do I need medical attention?
Another big worry is: if you sleep too long, your baby will not be hungry and will not affect development.
For example, this mother's message:
It is said that the baby can sleep until dawn I can relax, but I will be hungry if she sleeps too long... Instead, I couldn't sleep soundly, and I spent the whole night struggling with whether to wake her up.
Hey, Xiaobian knows this entanglement too well, waking up, or not waking up, there are difficulties.
However, the above 2 confusions of the mothers still have an answer. Today Xiaobian will make it clear at one time for the reference of mothers.
#1
Newborns love to sleep, is it not a disease?
Babies love to sleep, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.
Because the neonatal cerebral cortex is not yet mature, the excitability is low, the process of neural activity is weak, and any stimulus from the outside world is too strong for him, so it is easy to fatigue and sleep after eating.
During the neonatal period (0-28 days), it is normal for babies to sleep almost all but breastfeeding. Later, with the development of the cerebral cortex, the sleep time will gradually shorten.
#2
How long does your baby usually sleep at different times?
Many mothers want to know how long and how many times babies in different months will sleep.
After figuring out these, on the one hand, the mothers can probably have a psychological preparation, so that the baby will not sleep too much, or wake up too many times, so that they feel broken; on the other hand, it is also good to refer to the general standard to judge the baby's health status.
Therefore, Xiaobian has sorted out the sleep characteristics of babies in different months for the reference of mothers.
Babies aged 0-3 months sleep for more than 15.5 hours a day and nap 3-4 times during the day.
Babies aged 4-6 months sleep 14-15 hours a day and nap 2-3 times during the day.
Babies aged 7 months to 1 year sleep 13-14 hours a day and take two naps during the day.
Babies from one year to one and a half years old sleep for 11-12 hours a day, and take a nap once during the day.
Of course, the specific sleep time of each baby is inconsistent, and it also needs to be viewed according to the situation of the baby.
Next, it is the most troublesome problem for Bao Mom
#3
If your baby sleeps too long, should he wake up and feed?
This question is actually in terms of scoring stages.
Neonatal period
Generally speaking, the milk is emptyed in the stomach of the newborn for a short time, and it can be emptied in about 1.5-2 hours;
At the same time, the newborn has less glycogen storage in the body, and is prone to low blood sugar when hungry, which affects brain development.
Therefore, during the day, in the case of ensuring on-demand breastfeeding, the feeding interval is preferably 1.5-2 hours.
If the baby is sleeping, the baby should be woken up for more than 3 hours to feed once, and the night break can be appropriately extended.
Generally, babies in the first few weeks of birth need to wake up and feed, especially premature babies, or babies with poor sucking ability, and they must wake up and eat milk when they sleep for too long.
Full moon baby
For full moon babies, if they are asleep, they do not have to wake up and let their children eat. Deliberately waking up the sleeping baby to get up to feed, disturbing the baby's sleep, will also affect the baby's growth and development.
4-6 months
As the age of the month increases, the feeding interval gradually increases, and the baby of 4-6 months sleeps about 10 hours at night, so breastfeeding once or twice at night can be done, and do not disturb the baby's sleep too frequently.
7 months later
After 7 months of the baby, because the supplementary food has been added, so 60% of the baby can sleep for more than 6 hours at night, this time is also a good time to wean the night, if the baby sleeps all night, the mother does not need to wake up the baby to feed.
So, don't always worry about the baby being hungry, if you're really hungry, the baby will naturally wake up and ask for milk. If you don't wake up, after ruling out the factors of the disease, it may be that the baby is not too hungry
In short, the baby's weight gain is normal, and when he wakes up in a good mental state, he does not need to wake up the baby to feed. The baby has slept enough, and the appetite will increase greatly after waking up
Of course, if the baby sleeps for too long, exceeds the physiological range or suddenly exceeds the usual sleep time, then also pay attention to see if the baby is sick.
#4
In addition, mothers should also pay attention to the following issues
1, feeding the night milk of the mother, when feeding must not fall asleep, after falling asleep, the breast is easy to block the baby's nose and cause suffocation.
After feeding, you should also remember to let the baby spit out the nipple, holding the nipple for a long time can easily lead to nipple cracking.
2. Observe the state of the baby's sleep.
In addition to looking at the baby's sleep time, you should also pay attention to whether the baby's breathing is stable when sleeping; whether it is easy to be awakened; whether the body temperature is normal; whether the face is rosy; the reaction to the outside world and its mental state; whether the appetite has changed; whether the defecation situation is normal, and so on.
If you find that the baby is sleepy, does not eat, does not cry, does not move, or is easy to wake up after falling asleep, crying and restless, sweating and other abnormal conditions, do not mistake it for a physiological phenomenon and ignore it, and should be sent to the hospital for timely examination and treatment, so as not to delay the disease.
Well, about the baby's sleep characteristics, feeding characteristics, Xiaobian will share here ~
To summarize:
1. It is normal for newborns to sleep after eating. The full day sleep time is generally more than 15.5 hours.
2. In the neonatal period, during the day to ensure on-demand breastfeeding, the feeding interval is preferably 1.5-2 hours; if the baby is sleeping, more than 3 hours should wake up the baby to feed milk. At night, the interval can be appropriately extended.
3. Under normal circumstances, after adding complementary foods, it is not recommended to wake up and feed at night. If your baby is hungry, he will wake up.
4. It is necessary to judge the specific situation of their own baby, and once the baby has abnormal conditions, it is also necessary to seek medical treatment in time.
Moms, have you all learned?
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