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Breast milk is considered to be the most ideal food for babies, and many authoritative institutions at home and abroad recommend breastfeeding after the baby is born. In the days before the baby is weaned, the mother needs to breastfeed day and night. And some babies wake up frequently at night because of day and night, irregular sleep, lack of fullness, etc., and they have to eat when they wake up, making their mothers "miserable".
Xiao Li recently gave birth to a second child, and she did not expect that Xiao Bao was more difficult to carry than a child. My sister can eat and sleep during the month, sometimes sleep for five hours at a time, feed milk at most once at night, and eat again at 5:30 in the morning. Since the beginning of the confinement, adults have not been worried much, and they are simply the envy of individuals as "fairy babies".
Xiao Bao is different, born with the talent of "difficult to raise". Not only is the labor process long, but also a crying boy, who cries during the day and loves to make trouble at night, and eats every two hours at night, several times a night. It made Xiaoli physically and mentally exhausted.
The difference between children and children is so big. Babies who sleep poorly and feed frequently at night are also mostly because they have not developed good work and sleep habits. The cultivation of this habit can be cultivated from a few months in the baby, and even from the confinement period, it can be consciously cultivated.
Nighttime is the period when growth hormone secretion is most vigorous, especially from 10 pm to 1 am. Growth hormone is closely related to the child's growth and development and height. Therefore, at night, try to ensure that the baby sleeps enough and do not feed frequently.
From the confinement period, the baby can develop a routine of playing during the day and resting at night, so that parents can get better rest in the later stage.
To reduce the number of times your baby feeds at night and get better sleep, you can do this:
Establish bedtime routines
The general principle is: let your baby know that it's time to start sleeping.
During the day, let the baby sleep less and play more, especially before the evening, play with the child for a while in advance, do not let him sleep, so as to ensure more sleep at night.
Give him certain sensory stimulation before going to bed and develop bedtime procedures. For example, telling stories, singing sleep songs, bathing, touching, etc. You can choose one, or you can set up a whole process, stick to it every day, and send a message to your child: this is the final procedure before going to bed, and then it is time to start sleeping.
Set up a sleeping environment
Provide a comfortable sleeping environment for your baby. The baby should get up every night to change the diaper, you can install a small night light in the room, neither dazzling to affect sleep can also facilitate lighting; to ensure that the bedroom is suitable room temperature, quiet at night without noise.
Adjust the frequency of nighttime feedings
In general, newborns need to be fed 2 to 3 times a night. When the baby is slightly older, it can be reduced once on the basis of the original, and the usual feeding three times can be reduced to two times, and the usual feeding twice can be reduced to one.
The seventh edition of the American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Encyclopedia mentions that by 6 to 8 weeks of age, many babies can sleep for 4 to 5 hours at a time. Nearly four months of age, many babies can sleep at least 6 hours at night.
Don't worry about your baby going hungry if you don't eat for a long time, as long as the feeding interval doesn't exceed six hours, there's not much of a problem. Babies eat less in this world and will eat more at other times.
If the schedule is regular, some babies can sleep by three months. At this point, the number of feedings can be gradually reduced.
This can be done by pushing back an hour of the last feeding before bedtime. For example, the original 8 o'clock feeding was postponed to 9:00. Advance the earliest feeding time the next morning, such as the original 7:00 to 6:00, so that only 1 to 2 feedings are needed at night.
If the baby wakes up and pees, don't turn on the lights, keep quiet, soothe well, and immediately after changing into diapers, feed and take him to sleep.
If the baby wants to sleep after eating for a while, you can gently stroke the cheek or pull the earlobe to make the baby awake and continue to eat.
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