The baby's sleep gives many mothers a headache, especially frequent night awakenings and more night milk, which can make mothers collapse instantly.
What should I do in the face of a situation where my baby always wakes up at night?
Tell why
If the baby wakes up several times during sleep at night. Every time you wake up, you need to be coaxed by your parents to fall asleep again, which is what we call frequent night awakenings.
There are two main reasons for the baby's frequent night awakenings:
Occurs in a short time
For example, the baby has carried out a long and exciting activity during the day, as well as vaccinations, long teeth, separation from parents for a period of time, and a new sleeping environment, etc., which may make the original sleeping baby have occasional frequent night awakenings.
Occurs for a long time
For example, irregular feeding, irregular sleep time, overstimulation and teasing, excessive fatigue, etc. This long-term factor can cause your baby to continue to wake up frequently at night.
Depending on the cause, it is necessary to judge whether intervention is needed
If the baby wakes up frequently at night due to short-term factors, under normal circumstances, after the influencing factors disappear, the baby's sleep will return to a normal state, and then there is no need for parental intervention.
If the short-term factors disappear and the baby's frequent night wake-up situation still does not improve, then parents need to first judge whether the baby's night wake-up is a normal situation.
Can be through the baby's age and age, to determine whether the number of night awakenings beyond the normal situation, if the baby exceeds the normal frequency, and wake up early, not energetic after getting up, and even the daytime sleep time increases, it means that the baby's night sleep quality is not good, parents should consider the baby's night awakening intervention.
How to improve your baby's frequent night awakenings
Improves the sleep environment
A good sleeping environment is the guarantee of the baby's sleep, to avoid the baby's night awakening due to hot and cold, dry, not dark enough.
The humidity in the bedroom can be maintained between 40 and 60%. In terms of temperature, according to China's "Indoor Air Quality Standards" and the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the British National Health Service (NHS), the temperature in the air-conditioned room can be maintained at 22 ~ 26 ° C in summer; the indoor temperature of heating in winter is maintained at 16 ~ 24 ° C.
In addition, you can use comforters, such as pacifiers or toys that your baby likes, to accompany your baby to sleep and help you relax and fall back asleep when you fall asleep and wake up at night.
Avoid overstimulation
In the process of rapid development of the nervous system of small month-old babies, parents must avoid excessive stimulation of the baby during the day, and avoid playing stimulating games before going to bed to make the baby overexcited.
Enhance sleep rituals
The sleep ritual can help the baby ease the stimulation during the day and let the baby fall asleep easily and happily. Sleep rituals can include hypnotic music, massage and clapping, fixed bedtime movements, etc., so that as soon as the baby feels this, he knows that it is time to sleep, and the brain begins to slowly enter a resting state.
As a parent, if you want your child to rest well, you must help develop good habits for your baby, pay attention to details, and develop a regular routine.