In the scorching summer, many mothers began to spit out: “Why does my baby wake up earlier and earlier?” This is to toss and turn our old mothers hard! ]
Under the article about waking up early by clove mother before, many mothers left messages about the time when their babies woke up: some woke up at 7 o’clock, some at 6 o’clock, some even at 4 or 5 o’clock.
The small motor turns, which is the rhythm that drives mothers crazy! What should we do to face the baby who wakes up early?
Today we invited Zhu Xiaojie to learn how to let Eva sleep more in summer ~
How early do you wake up?
In general, the common time for babies to get up is six or seven o’clock in the morning. If the baby can sleep through 7 o’clock or even 8 o’clock, the mommy can steal the joy.
Therefore, when the baby wakes up before 6 o’clock in the morning, he will not sleep again in any case, which is the early wake-up of the baby. If the baby wakes up at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning, drinks milk once, and can continue to sleep until 6 or 7 o’clock, it is not an early wake-up.
Whose pot is it when you wake up in the morning?
STEP 1 Wake up from hunger
Babies are too young to store more energy until they wake up in the morning, and they may wake up hungry in the morning. This is easy to happen when babies of small months old (under 3 months old) and babies have just given up all night milk.
2. Practice the skills you have just learned-the development period of major sports.
When the baby has just learned a new skill but is not so skilled, it is easy for the baby to wake up early, such as turning over, crawling, etc.
3. Interference from external factors
Cold, hot, bright, too noisy, even diaper leakage may cause the baby to wake up early. At five or six o’clock in the morning, drowsiness is not so strong, any trouble outside, may be the fuse of waking up early, so mothers should check more.
Step 4: Excessive fatigue
Excessive fatigue is mostly caused by changes in work and rest time. For example, the older generation mistakenly thought that [sleep less during the day and sleep well at night], and it is easy to cause excessive fatigue if the baby is not allowed to take a nap during the day. In addition, when the child’s dusk sleep disappears (about 6 months old) and the morning sleep is difficult (about 10 months old), the child’s long standby will lead to excessive fatigue.
Step 5: Getting back to the cage
When the time between the first nap in the morning and the early wake-up is too close, the baby who has formed the habit of making up sleep will also wake up early easily.
Third, how to improve the phenomenon of early awakening
1. Adjusting the external environment
The direct effect of shading curtains is to weaken the influence of early morning light on the body clock. Qualified [shading curtains] can shield all light-even if there is already three strokes of sunshine outside the house. The room is still like night. When installing [shading curtains], we need to pay attention to whether there is any light leakage-[above curtain rods and around windows].
If there are family members who need to work early shifts or elderly people who like morning exercises, please try to keep all kinds of living noise to a minimum.
In summer, the air conditioner is set at a constant temperature. When the baby hasn’t got up, don’t owe your hand and turn it off in advance. Sleeping bags replace quilts, blankets and gauze towels, which can prevent the baby from kicking quilts and waking up cold, so that the baby can sleep longer at ease.
2. Don’t get up when you wake up
Mothers need to keep a bottom line for the total length of sleep at night, say 10.5 hours.
When it is less than this bottom line, even if the baby wakes up thoroughly, how to appease and stop sleeping, don’t immediately open the curtains to arrange to get up, let alone turn on the light to play with. You can maintain the lowest intensity of interaction and say to the baby: “Baby, lie down for a while, it’s not time to get up yet”.
Mothers can also choose not to interact with their babies, At this time, you need divine acting skills-even if the baby calls you, calls you, pulls your hair, pokes your nostrils, patts your face, climbs onto you, and sits on your stomach, you need to continue to pretend to sleep, then pretend to turn over in a dream, quietly push away the baby’s hand or move the baby. (Oscar owes all sleeping mothers a golden statuette.)
When the baby has already got most of the sleep at night and starts to fall asleep in the early morning, if the mother can appease him in time, she will carry the baby to the big bed and continue to sleep. At this time, if she chooses to delay the response, it is very likely that the baby will really cry completely awake.
3. Give your baby morning milk
When the baby wakes up early, The mother can nurse the baby. During the feeding, It needs to be treated like night milk, Quiet, low-key, fast, keep the light in the room dim, try to avoid all factors that may further wake up the baby. This meal of milk can solve the sleep problems caused by hunger of the baby and maintain the continuity of sleep. Morning milk will exist for a long time than night milk. If morning milk can prevent early awakening, this business is very cost-effective.
When my mother felt that I didn’t want to feed the morning milk any more, she suggested to cancel the morning milk slowly like canceling the night milk. For example, dilution method, reduction of milk quantity method, reduction of feeding time, etc.
4. Discharge reasonably during the day and don’t sleep all the time.
During the day, it is necessary to ensure that the baby has sufficient naps, but [sufficient] does not mean that the more the better. For babies with early wake-up problems, the sober time of the baby should be gradually lengthened according to the age of the month. The first nap of the baby after the age of 6 months should be 2.5 hours after getting up in the morning.
If the total amount of baby’s daytime naps is on the high side of the recommended range in the corresponding month, accompanied by waking up at night, it is recommended that the mother control the duration of baby’s daytime naps and consider whether there is any sleep [cage sleep].
If only this nap is especially long and the rest of the naps are short naps, then we need to control not only the awake time before this nap, but also the duration of this nap, suggesting 30-45 minutes.
The following is a reference table for the common awake intervals and naps of each month’s age:
