For infants and young children, good sleep quality is crucial, and it is directly related to the health and development of infants and young children. In the process of growth and development of infants and young children, sleep can not only promote brain development, enhance memory ability, but also improve immunity and prevent diseases. However, many parents face sleep problems in infants and young children, such as waking up at night, difficulty falling asleep, and insufficient sleep time. Therefore, understanding and improving the sleep quality of infants and toddlers is a challenge that every parent must face. Today we will explore the sleep needs of infants and toddlers and how to create a good sleep environment for them to help them achieve better sleep quality.
The amount of sleep needed in infancy (0-2 years) varies by age. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the recommended time frame for daily sleep in infancy and early childhood:
Newborn (0-3 months): 14-17 hours (including napping)
Infant (4-11 months): 12-15 hours (including napping)
Toddler (1-2 years): 11-14 hours (including napping)
What are the effects of drowsiness in babies?
1. Affect nervous system development: excessive sleep can hinder the cognitive and intellectual development of infants, resulting in poor neuronal development, which in turn affects the development of brain function.
2. Affect immunity: extremely susceptible to external stimuli, poor resistance, easy to suffer from colds and fevers and other diseases.
3. Affect physical development: Infants' physical development requires high-quality sleep, and excessive sleep can slow or even stagnate physical development, affecting infants' physical development.
4. Affect emotions: Lack of sleep will affect the cognitive and emotional development of infants, making babies emotionally unstable, easily affected by emotions, and easy to lose their temper.
5. Affect behavior development: Because the baby's cognitive and emotional development is affected, it will affect the baby's behavior development, become more timid and shy, unwilling to communicate, resist new things, etc.
Babies wake up frequently in the middle of the night?
Lack of deep sleep: Deep sleep is very important in the process of sleep, it can help the baby regain physical strength, and it can help the baby better enter the next sleep cycle. If a baby doesn't get enough deep sleep, it may cause the baby to wake up easily.
Time regulation: Babies' sleep regulation is not fully developed, so they may experience some time regulation during sleep at night, which may also cause the baby to wake up.
Other factors: Some external factors, such as noise, high temperature, lighting, etc., may also affect the baby's sleep quality, making it easy for the baby to wake up.
In short, the frequent awakening of infants in the middle of the night may be due to insufficient deep sleep or insufficient time regulation, or it may be caused by external factors. Therefore, parents should create a quiet, warm, suggestive sleep environment, and ensure that the baby sleeps enough time each night to help the baby fall asleep and get enough deep sleep.
How to give your baby better sleep
1. Establish a fixed sleep time, and try to strictly observe: the time to get up in the morning should be consistent, the time to go to bed at night should also be consistent, try to maintain a regular work and rest time every day, so that the baby's biological clock is more regular, so that the baby has habits, even if there is no parental urging, you can fall asleep regularly.
2. Before preparing the baby for bed, parents should arrange some relaxing activities for the baby, such as singing, reading stories, telling jokes, etc., which will help the baby relax and make it easier for the baby to fall asleep.
3. When the baby sleeps, keep the room quiet, and open some soft music to let the baby fall asleep quietly.
4. Before the baby goes to bed, parents can give the baby a warm hug, so that the baby feels loved and safe, which helps the baby feel comfortable and easy to fall asleep.
Sometimes babies will twitch or snort during sleep, at which time parents can gently shake the baby's shoulders, sing songs and tell stories, so that the baby can return to a peaceful sleep.
Therefore, your baby's sleep is crucial to your baby's health and development, and parents must not only ensure that their baby has enough sleep time, but also ensure the quality of sleep. In addition, parents also need to avoid the baby's external stimulation during the baby's sleep period and develop good sleep habits so as not to affect the baby's future healthy development. In short, when parents take care of their babies, they should not only pay attention to the baby's nutrition, but also pay attention to the baby's sleep, so that the baby can enjoy a comfortable sleep environment and lay a good foundation for the baby's healthy development.
Finally, I wish every baby, sleep well, be guarded by the stars in the night sky, be embraced by dreams in dreams, may you have a peaceful sleep, have a refreshing dream, and may the babies' tomorrow be more brilliant and healthier!