Two days ago, a bao mom sent me "Sleeping in January, crying in February, saving belly in March" and asked me if this is a folk saying? Is it accurate? This is not a folk proverb, a national tradition so simple, but really a normal law of every child's development, is every novice parenting father and mother need to master the common sense of parenting.
The general meaning can be explained as follows:
Sleep in January
Babies sleep in their first month of life, and they can sleep up to 20 hours at the longest time of the month. The reason why this state occurs is because the baby is in the mother's belly, just born in the world, they have not yet fully adapted to the outside world, so they need a lot of sleep to slowly adapt, sooner or later this natural law and state.
In addition, the brain development of the little ones is still in progress, and a lot of sleep can completely repair the brain, the later stage has not yet perfected the process, so in addition to the baby's normal physiological needs for breastfeeding, the baby wants to sleep let him sleep, as a novice parent, do not disturb him.
External attention here to remind you is the baby, in this month, because the cerebral cortex development is not perfect enough, so the excitement point is relatively low, the nerve is relatively weak, at this time if the parents are extra teasing the child, it may cause the child's brain fatigue, it is difficult to enter the sleep state, so this time is not recommended to bao mom or bao dad to play with the baby. Or when the child is sleeping, we often talk loudly next to it.
February and February crying
February crying because the baby has almost rested, they began to need the mother to come, according to his needs, to solve some practical problems, but the babies can not speak now, then they can only use crying to express their emotions, but also use crying to communicate with the mother, so that the mother to find their own physiological or other needs.
For example, at this time, the baby begins to become particularly able to eat, then they will also enter a period of growth surge, at this time if the amount of milk is insufficient, the baby will use crying to vent their dissatisfaction with insufficient food, hoping that the mother can notice her own need for food.
But with the increase of this amount of food, the baby is also more likely to have intestinal cramps, since the baby is unwell, then he will definitely use the way of crying to tell the mother, I am very uncomfortable now, if we find that the baby is crying seriously at dusk, and it is difficult to be soothed, it is likely that the baby has this kind of intestinal colic.
March, March belly saving
Entering the third month after the baby's birth, the child's digestive ability is getting stronger and stronger, so even if they eat breast milk, they also begin to have the performance of saving the stomach, in fact, this is also a good thing, indicating that the child's digestive ability increases, continuous improvement, of course, followed by an increase in the interval between bowel movements.
So in this month, if the baby's bowel movement time is extended, then the mother must not be too anxious, this is likely to be a manifestation of the baby's belly. Of course, constipation is constipation, saving belly is saving belly, and mothers must clearly distinguish the two.
On the road to parenting, we are all novices, how to take better care of children, you can pay attention to me, and discuss with me those things on the road to parenting.