A lot of families with children are plagued by sleepless nights, where parents and children sleeps badly and sleep too little. It is imperative, that you have a safe sleeping place for your child and that you have good routines about falling asleep and about sleeping. If so, there is a high probability that the quiet nights also will come to you.
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.
Many things takes place during sleep, both in the body and in the brain. Similar to how a computer is kept tidy, the brain moves files to the right places, the consciouses is purified much like a hard drive is kept free from fragmented files. Dreams helps the brain, the consciousness and the sub-consciousness to clean themselves up and put topics together in new and constructive ways.
For the body rest and sleep lets the muscles to relax and the cells regenerate. During sleep various substances are produces, which are secreted in greater quantities than when you are awake. This applies, for example, for various hormones, including growth hormones and hormones that promote the formation of milk in lactating women.
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.
Although sleep is very important to all families, falling asleep and sleeping does not necessarily happen by itself for everyone. The first thing is to make sure you have a good place to sleep.
Falling asleep
When children sleeps, most of the sleep is "dream sleep" or REM sleep. In this stage sleep is shallow, the breathing is irregular and the eyes moves quickly in small movements behind the closed eyelids. Often babies wake up very easily in this stage, but they also quite easily fall back to sleep. So before trying anything drastic, just hold back and see if the baby falls asleep by itself again. Often a low humming or a small touch on the baby's forehead or hand. Usually the first 20 to 30 minutes of a babies sleep is superficial.
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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