How To Make Your Baby Sleep All Through The Night – Without Crying!
Too many parents and children are troubled by sleepless nights, or nights where both parents and children sleeps too little. Is is very important both to have a good place to sleep for the child, but also to develop good sleeping routines, if you want both you and your child to sleep well.
Sleep is essential, not only for children but also for adults. Nothing destroys the day easier, than the lack of a good nights sleep – especially if the sleep is disturbed several times in the night. Sleep is rejuvenating both body and soul.
During sleep a lot happens in both the brain and the body. You can compare some of what happens in the brain, with how to keep tidy in a computer. For example, the files are placed in the right places, the hard disk is cleansed of noise (fragments of files), and that things are placed appropriately. Dreams can be compared with a kind of cleanup program where the consciousness is purified, old scraps are thrown out, and topics are put together in new and constructive ways.
The body relaxes the muscles and regenerates the cells during sleep. Different substances are produced and released in the body in much larger quantities during sleep. Hormones, such as growth hormones and hormones that regulated the milk production in lactating women, are produced and released during sleep.
Most people will, if they are depraved sleep over a period, develop different psychiatric disorders, become depressed or psychotic. Deprivation of sleep is a well know way of torture for this exact reason, and this should remind us just how important it is that parents prioritize sleep, bot the their child, but also for themselves.
There are no lack of good arguments to prioritize good sleeping habits, but falling asleep and sleeping is not necessarily something that comes easy to all children. First of all, the child needs a good and safe place to sleep.
How to fall asleep
Much of a baby’s sleep is REM sleep or “dream sleep”. Dream sleep is shallow, breathing is irregular and the eyes move quickly behind the closed eyelids. In this stage babies often wakes up easily, but often they fall back into sleep right away. A gentle touch on the child’s forehead, hand or check is often enough to bring the child back into dream land.
When a child is tired, it must be allowed to sleep. The child sleeps better if it has a clean diaper, is full and the temperature is pleasant. If it can be avoided, don’t accustom your baby to sleep with a breast or a pacifier in his or hers mouth. It is also unwise to accustom the child to hold the father’s or mother’s hand when it is about to sleep. Then the pacifier, the breast or the hands will be the signal to that now is the time to sleep for the child. Crying can also work the same way if the child gets used to cry before sleeping. The trick is to make the child falls asleep without any specific stimuli.
It is not good for any children for them to cry themselves to sleep. A child that cries must be comforted. If something is wrong, you must help the child. Food, clean diaper, less light or less noise or more security. Is the child sick, then you must consider what is wrong. Is it hot (signs of fever)? Is it cold? Is it a stomach ache? Is this constipation? Consider wether a health visitor or doctor should be contacted and asked for advice.
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