Although there are certain rules to follow in the characteristics of infant sleep, and experienced data can help, there are always some reasons why I don't know why they may lead to some situations.
In fact, a small detail can solve the child's sleep problem, these details are sometimes just a small habit of life, previously not noticed.
Inexplicable influencing factors
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In sleep counseling, there is a situation that many babies with relatively stable sleep will suddenly cry inexplicably, or cry easily at some fixed times, so that adults are completely confused.
Parents do not necessarily find problems when they think about it carefully, but we talk about some overlooked influencing factors through "chat", and sometimes, these factors are very strange, but they have become a turning point in the whole counseling process and even the change of children's sleep problems.
Some of the particularly common ones I will not mention here, such as: the impact of light, changes in the environment, changes in temperature, family visits, camera lights, and so on more popular ....
Here are a few magical ones:
1, the mother's change of hairstyle: when the baby is accustomed to stroking your hair every day to sleep calmly, you may never be able to imagine, you permed a curly hair for beauty has become the beginning of the child's crying, don't hesitate, straighten, End.
In the same way, sometimes the change of bed sheets, changes in bed circumference, and even changes in the position of small beds may become cause children's original stable sleep or better sleep to become inexplicably irritable and crying.
2, hot food: there is a baby every day before going to bed before breastfeeding crying, resulting in difficult to coax before night. I don't know which tendon I made the wrong one, I asked, how many degrees of water do you brew milk, and then the next day I cooled the milk water a few degrees, and I didn't cry when I fed, and it was easy to get into the night, End.
3, do not look at the stranger: there is such a case, the baby goes out every day to walk the time is basically the same, but not necessarily every day out, but as long as you go out, you will cry at night. Always wondered if it was too tiring to go out or something else. Later, I found that every time I went out at the same time, I would meet a grandfather walking my grandson in the community, and I would always greet and tease each other when I met. The next day, walk around, End.
In the same way, it could be a dog, a building, a piece of music, who knows?
There are many more such strange things in the consultation process. Of course, more peculiar details are rare. What I want to say here is to consciously look for rules and try a little change.
Sometimes the law and the truth are in front of you, but you are ignored by the daily habit of life, it is better to find a third party to talk about, maybe suddenly enlightened.
Impatient bedtime routines
No matter what kind of sleep it is, getting your child to be able to calm down is the key to falling asleep normally.
Especially when taking your child out for a walk, it is important for sleep to go home at least 20 to 30 minutes in advance to calm the child's mood and restore body temperature.
Some parents take their children out without the concept of time control at all. When the time to return close to sleep, although the child is sleepy, but can not sleep, and finally still have to calm down for a while and then go back to sleep. However, the length of sleep may also be a cycle, and if it is missed, it will be constantly adjusted and postponed.
Your child's sleep time is important, but peace and calm before bedtime is even more important.
For example, just about to get ready for sleep, the child pulled, after washing, immediately go back to hug twice and put it down, the idea in mind is not to let the child fatigue sleep. This idea is very good, indicating that you value your child's sleep, but please do not panic so much, after washing, you can let your child calm in the living room for 5 minutes, and then go back to the sleeping environment and hug for a while, a little later is not a big problem.
Reluctant to wake up the pity
If you never wake your baby up, either your child sleeps very regularly or there is no regularity at all.
There are always many uncertain things and various arrangements in life, if you want to keep the child's work and rest rules good, waking up the baby to arrange life is bound to be a basic operation that will definitely be encountered.
This basic operation includes the control of the latest wake-up time in the morning when there is a problem with sleep at night; includes the requirements for the second wake-up time in order to ensure the smooth entry of the third sleep; and includes the guarantee of the end time of the last sleep during the day in order to ensure the consistency of the nighttime.
We often see stories in cases where parents are asked to wake up no later than what time they are noon, but they sleep an extra 10 minutes because they are reluctant to wake up their baby, and these 10 minutes seem to be nothing.
However, it caused a lot of pressure on the last sleep, and as a result, there was a problem with the sleep, and the result was either the failure of the third sleep, or the third sleep that could only sleep for a very short time, or the night was delayed, and even affected the law of the night.
So, don't let your child sleep just because you think it's too pitiful to wake him up. Sleep systematically, wake up systematically, and adjust flexibly so that you don't force yourself into a dead end, because that 10 minutes of pity causes the child to cry more, and it is not worth it.
Content cooperation expert Gu Jin
BSC Certified Sleep Counselor, New Zealand
Audit expert Wang Rong
Registered Infant Sleep Counselor in the United States
Producer: Astro Boy
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