Violation of a night's sleep in a child, frequent awakening and crying are familiar to any parent. Yes, many moms and dads sometimes only dream about having their child get enough sleep, as it should and gave the same opportunity to them - parents, to sleep for at least a few hours continuously.
Of course, it's not immediately to the moms and dads comes the knowledge of why their child does not sleep well at night, often wakes up, shudders, and turns around restlessly.
Here we find out what the authoritative children's doctor Eugeny Komarovsky thinks on this issue, after reading this article, you can easily solve the problem and make sleep for your baby.
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Causes of poor baby sleep, frequent awakenings and anxiety
The causes of the disturbance of a night's sleep are many. It can be a disease at the beginning of its manifestation, when its symptoms are still barely noticeable, or emotional upheavals, even a simple abundance of impressions received by a child, so to say, "for a dream to come".
Often a bad dream at night is an echo of the irrational regime of the day when the baby is sleeping a lot during the day, which leads to the fact that the little bit confuses the day with the night.
The Kid can also restlessly sleep, often wake up and cry if it is hot( stuffy) or cold when it is overfed.
Keep in mind that before the age of 4 months, the cause of a nightly concern may be intestinal colic, until the age of 10 months and older the child can sleep badly because of the pain caused by teething.
Up to one year old, a newborn and a baby can sleep badly if it is hungry.
However, in all children without exception, a bad dream can be a sign of a serious illness, for example - rickets, encephalopathy, diagnosis of neurological pathology.
Sleep deficiency is dangerous for the child's body. From constant lack of sleep, the balance in many organs and their systems of the child's organism is disturbed. A child experiences a deficiency of certain enzymes and hormones that are produced during sleep. Therefore, the paramount task is to establish a sleep.
What are the norms of child sleep?
EO Komarovsky, between the concepts of "children's sleep" and "dream of the whole family" puts an equal sign. After all, when the baby sleeps well, then the parents get a chance to get enough sleep. The whole family feels great.
Pediatrics assess the quality of a child's daily sleep according to certain standards:
| No. | Age of the baby | Comments on the duration of sleep |
| 1 | Newborn | Usually, the newborn sleeps up to 22 hours a day. |
| 2 | 1 - 3 months | A child aged 1 to 3 months - about 20 hours. |
| 3 | 6 - 12 months | At the age of 6 months, the crumb requires at least 14 hours of sleep, of which at night should be from 8 to 10 hours. |
| 4 | 1 - 2 years | A one-year-old child must stay at least 13 hours a day to remain healthy, about 9-10 hours are taken for the night. |
| 5 | 2 - 4 years | If a child is 2 to 4 years old - in a dream the child should spend about 12 hours. |
| 6 | 4 - 6 years | After 4 years - not less than 10 hours. |
| 7 | 6 - 11 years old | At 6 years old the child must sleep at night 9 hours( or 8 hours, but then necessarily stay up for another hour in the afternoon). |
| 8 | Older than 11 years old | After 11 years of night sleep should be no less than 8-8.5 hours. |
Doctor E. Komarovsky, reminds parents that it is necessary to take into account the hours that the child sleeps during the day. There are no uniform standards here, everything is quite individual.
In general, a child of up to a year is enough for 2-3 small "quiet hours" during the day. To the kid till 3 years - one-two. The situation when a child does not sleep at 2 in the daytime is not very normal, because it is still too small to survive all day without rest.
If a child in the age of 5 refused to have a day's sleep, this may well be the norm option, since sleep largely depends on the temperament of the smallest man.
How to adjust sleep: recommendations and rules
It's not difficult to adjust sleep at night. Eugene Komarovsky offers ten "golden rules for a healthy child's sleep."
First
Once you and the baby have arrived from the hospital, prioritize as quickly as possible. The child must intuitively understand that there is a time when everyone around is resting.
It is recommended to determine immediately which interval is suitable for sleep for all household members. This can be from 21 hours to 5 am or from midnight to 8 am. The child should be laid on a night sleep at this time( the time frame does not move anywhere).
All members of the family will need discipline, observance by themselves of the established rule.
It's clear that the first time a crumb can wake up at night to eat. But by the age of 6 months, most babies stop needing night feeding, and mom can get her 8 hours of sleep without waking up at the meal of her son or daughter.
Often parents complain that the baby sleeps only on his hands. As soon as he is moved to the crib, he immediately wakes up and begins to express discontent. This case - the lack of discipline in the parents themselves. Suffice it to remember that rocking on the hands does not affect the health and strength of sleep in any way, it is just the whim of the parents themselves. Therefore, the choice is to swing or not to swing. Komarovsky's opinion - a child must sleep in his bed and go to bed at the same time.
Second
This rule follows from the previous. If the family has decided what time a night's sleep should begin, then it's time to think over the regime of the day for the youngest household. What time he will swim, walk, sleep during the day.
Very quickly, a newborn will get used to exactly such a schedule that his parents offered him, and there will be no problems with sleep either day or night.
Third
It is necessary to determine in advance where and how the child will sleep. Komarovsky believes that for a baby under 3 years old, the best option is a baby cot, and up to a year it may well be in the parents' bedroom, because it will be more convenient for mom to feed the crumbs at night and change if unforeseen happens.
After a year, says Evgeny Olegovich, it is best for a child to take a separate room and rearrange his bed there( if, of course, such an option exists).A joint dream with parents, which many mothers and even popes are trying to practice now, is not the best option. Eugene Komarovsky believes that there is no relation to a sound sleep, and neither does the mother and father add health. Therefore, it simply does not make sense.
Fourth
It will not be necessary to use it, if the regime of the day of crumbs is well thought out by its parents. But if at night the karapuza turns around a lot, sleeps "snatches" for 30 minutes or an hour, and the doctors have not found any physical illnesses or neurological diagnoses, most likely, he just over sleeps during the day.
Eugene Komarovsky recommends not to be shy and decisively to wake the sleepy baby in the afternoon, so that an hour or two "go away" in favor of a night rest.
Fifth
Sleep and food are the basic needs of the baby in the first year of life. So parents need to find the right balance between them. For this Komarovsky advises to optimize the diet. From birth to 3 months baby can biologically need feeding at night 1-2 times. From 3 months to 6 months - enough to feed at night once. After six months - you do not need to feed at night, says the doctor.
With the implementation of this rule in practice, the most problems arise in families who try to feed the child on demand. If there is a clear regime or often the recommended mixed mode( on demand, but at regular intervals - not less than 3 hours), then the baby gets used to eating just like that. But if at each squeak he is immediately given a breast, then do not be surprised that the crash wakes up every 30-40 minutes and cries. He can do it because he is just chronically overeating, his tummy is hurting.
It is best to offer the baby a light snack in the penultimate feeding, and on the last before going to bed at night - nourishingly and densely to feed it.
Sixth
To sleep soundly at night, you need to get tired in the daytime. Therefore, the child needs to walk more and more often outdoors, engage in developmental games appropriate to age, practice gymnastics, do massage and temper crumbs.
However, in the evening, a few hours before going to bed, it is better to limit active games, strong emotions. It is better to read a book, listen to songs, watch( not for long) a favorite cartoon. Komarovsky recalls that there is no better sleeping pills than mother's lullaby in nature.
Seventh
It regulates the microclimate in the room in which the child sleeps. The baby should not be hot or cold, he should not breathe too dry or too humid air. Komarovsky recommends adhering to the following microclimate parameters: air temperature - from 18 to 20 degrees, humidity - from 50 to 70%.
The bedroom should be ventilated, monitor the cleanliness of the air. On the battery heating in the apartment is better to put special valves, which will prevent the air drying in winter.
Eighth
To sleep more easily, do not forget about the massage before the evening bath. The bath itself Komarovsky advises to spend in a large adult bath filled with cool water( not above 32 degrees).After such a procedure, a good appetite and a healthy sleep are guaranteed.
Ninth
Parents who want to get enough sleep at night should take care of the baby sleeping comfortably. Particular attention should be paid to the quality of the mattress. It should not be too soft and squeezed under the weight of the baby. It is better if it is filled with environmentally friendly materials marked "hypoallergenic".
Bedding must be made of natural fabrics. Do not buy bright sheets and duvet covers with cartoon characters. For the baby it is much more useful, if in linen there are no textile dyes, it will be usual white color. Wash linen with a special baby powder and rinse thoroughly. A pillow is not required for a child until at least 2 years old, says Evgeny Komarovsky. After this age, the pillow should be small( no more than 40x60).
The tenth
This is the most delicate rule that Eugene Komarovsky himself calls the most important of the whole ten. Calm sleep can only be a baby, which is dry and comfortable. Therefore, it is very meticulous to consider the choice of a disposable diaper. It is better to give preference to expensive diapers with an "intelligent" absorbent layer, proven generations and safe.
How to improve sleep - useful advice
If parents have a task to establish a sleep for a child who has long grown out of diapers, then mom and dad will have to work hard. First, the child will need to increase physical activity and significantly reduce the flow of new impressions( temporarily not buying new toys, books and not showing new films).Sometimes it is worth noting a day's sleep in favor of the night.
Precisely the same tactics should be followed and the parents of babies, who, as they say in the people, mixed up day and night. Only a merciless daytime restriction of dreams will help during the week to transfer the child to normal mode, when he begins to rest at night.
If the disturbance of night sleep is not eliminated even with the systematic observance of all the above recommendations, the child must necessarily be examined by a doctor.
Parents should take a closer look and watch the nature of the sleep of the crumbs and poses, in which he still manages to fall asleep. If the baby sleeps, throwing his head back, this may be a sign of increased intracranial pressure. If the baby often shudders in a dream, it can be both a manifestation of neurological problems and a deficiency of calcium and vitamin D.
If a child sleeps with a half-open eye, this may be a sign of increased nervous excitability. Sleep disorder in a child very rarely requires any medication, you should not stuff your baby with tranquilizers and nootropic drugs. But sometimes you can use preparations on plant basis or decoctions of motherwort, valerian, mint.
A dream on the abdomen, about which there are so many disputes at parents' forums on the Internet, Komarovsky considers quite acceptable and even very useful option. For the child this position of the body during rest is quite natural. There is no connection between sleeping on the stomach and the syndrome of sudden infant death, says Komarovsky.
Young children are very meteosensitive. Even with all the recommendations, there may still be sleepless nights, if the atmospheric pressure "jumps", the weather changes abruptly, and a strong thunderstorm outside the window.
Video: How to sleep, improving the sleep of the baby
In the video, Dr. Komarovsky tells what conditions should be created in the daytime so that at night the baby slept well.
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