Baby Baby
The mother needs to know everything about the baby, especially the new mother who has never had a baby. An important aspect of the life of the baby and the life of everyone around him, especially the mother is sleep. The newborn child has long periods of sleep. This sleep increases his health and ability. To grow normally, sleep periods ranging from 16 hours to 24 hours in the form of snoozes may be up to five naps, and as the child progresses age gradually less sleep and starts to wake up for longer periods.
But some mothers suffer from a lack of sleep or inability to sleep, whether at night or during the day, which causes them and their child a lot of discomfort and distress, fatigue and fatigue, what are the reasons that may lead to the inability of the child to sleep? What are the ways to help him sleep?
Reasons for not sleeping baby
- The child’s need for food. When the child feels hungry, he can not sleep and starts to turn and cry.
- The child needs to change the maintenance because it hurts and feels uncomfortable when he is not clean, or this type of diaper may be uncomfortable for him or not.
- Infection of the child with colic or bloating in the stomach as a result of cold milk or mother’s milk, which dealt with some inflatable food.
- Injury to the child with pain such as ear or throat pain or high fever.
- The bedroom is not suitable for lighting, heating, quiet or mosquitoes, all of which disturb the child in his sleep.
- The child’s continuous sleep during the day keeps his body so that he remains awake at night
Ways to help the baby to sleep at night
The baby can not distinguish between night and day so parents should organize their baby’s sleep well to get used to waking up during the day and sleeping at night.
- Providing food to the child in the day in a form full of play and activity while food at night feet calmly and without any interaction, so he can connect the day with play and activity, and the night calm and tranquility.
- Put the child at night in his bed to get him to sleep alone, and not play with him or try to use the method of pregnancy or shaking him to sleep, where he used after a period of sleep alone without help.
- Putting a toy or piece of cloth next to the child so that it connects to sleep later it is easy to distinguish the date of sleep at night.