During the National Day holiday, I can finally release myself from my endless home and hard work. Whether I go back to my hometown to visit relatives or travel at home and abroad, it is very pleasant to take my baby with me and walk and play.
However, it is inevitable that the journey will be bumpy and the sleeping environment will change. Babies will not sleep well and will easily suffer from low resistance and illness. What can I do?
Don’t worry, today Dr. Clove summed up the ways to make the baby sleep peacefully during the trip. The strategy was taken away so that everyone could play at ease.
Three Sleeping Aids Necessary for Travel
1. Pushcarts
A light and easy-to-fold cart is the best nap tool in the trip. Even after a day’s trip, you don’t have to worry about the cart. When you are tired and sleepy, Eva can sleep soundly when the cart stops and goes.
Even if the baby falls asleep in your hands or arms, you can put the sleeping baby in the cart so that adults and children can rest.
It should be noted that it is best to choose a compromise between [portable] and [comfortable] for the cart, which is not only light and can board the plane, but also relatively spacious and comfortable to sleep. For babies under six months old, when choosing the cart, try to choose the one that can lie flat and protect the spine.
2. Familiar bedtime partners
Bring the sleeping bags, blankets, bedtime comforts and one or two baby’s favorite picture books that the baby usually wears.
Even if you change your sleep environment and hold your baby’s beloved blanket/doll, you can be familiar with the feeling of peace of mind, which will increase your baby’s acceptance of unfamiliar sleep environment.
Step 3 Keep warm for standby
The temperature gradually turns cooler in early autumn, so you should take a small blanket with you when you go out to visit scenic spots to shield your baby from the wind and light when you take a nap on the cart. Breast-feeding mothers can use a dual-purpose breast-feeding towel that can serve as a blanket, which is also a wise choice to kill two birds with one stone.
Different means of transportation can sleep in this way.
No matter where the destination of the long vacation is, it is suggested to arrange it according to the baby’s schedule as far as possible. The schedule should not be too tight to avoid playing too hard.
1. Driving by oneself
In the process of driving the vehicle, please be sure to let the baby sit in the safety seat, don’t take chances, no matter in low speed or high speed driving, holding the child to sleep or ride is very dangerous, don’t let the child in the arms of adults, act as human flesh airbag. A sudden brake or adults sleepy can let the baby easily get rid of, life is on the line.
There are many ways to reduce your baby’s crying on the safety seat. Try to bring your baby’s favorite toys and comforts to reduce your resistance to the safety seat. Or choose your baby’s usual sleepy point to drive, get on the bus and sleep, wake up and get off to play, and relax with each other.
2. On the plane
Short-range flight, you can choose the baby’s usual nap time flight, more than 8 hours of international long-distance, try to choose night flights, reduce crying and tossing and turning during the flight. Most babies can sleep under the rumbling background in the cabin.
Confirm with the airline in advance whether folding baby sleeping baskets (suitable for babies under one year old) can be provided. If the application is successful, they will usually be arranged to sit in the first row of seats.
Because babies over two years old have their own seats, sleeping and activities will be better arranged. For babies under two years old who cannot sleep in folding beds, parents can only work hard and sleep in their arms.
In the process of taking off and landing, no matter whether you sleep in your arms or in your seat, you must not leave your seat or even walk around to appease your baby because your baby cries.
3. On the train
Sleep on the train can be more flexible, and the back towel or brace can free the fatigue of sleeping. If there is a light and small folding umbrella car, it is best. However, it can be placed between seats or in a spacious aisle to allow the baby to take a nap.
On the means of transportation, the white noise and bumpy shaking feeling brought with you during driving are the natural aids for your baby to sleep and do not need to worry too much. However, after nightfall, sleeping late in a new sleep environment or hotel is crucial for adults and children to recover from their day’s journey.
The sleep environment was changed so that Eva could adapt quickly.
My baby is very choosing a bed, leaving home to sleep is noisy. What should I do?
Whether it’s going home to visit relatives or traveling, the change of sleep environment is a [small challenge] for the baby.
In addition to the common comforting things mentioned earlier that can make her familiar with and relax, stay in hotels or other sleeping environments and take her baby familiar with the room and bed in advance so that her baby can understand that this is a place where she can sleep at ease.
1. Provide the baby with the same bedtime ceremony as at home. Bathing, telling stories, humming songs, giving comforts, etc. to prompt the arrival of night sleep.
2. Arrange the bedtime and try not to go in and out too much with normal times, otherwise it is easy to cause the baby to cry and sleep badly at night.
3. If your baby is used to sleeping in a small bed, it is best to apply to the hotel for a separate crib before booking and checking in. If you are used to sleeping in a big bed at home, the hotel bed is more dangerous for your baby, and it is best to let your baby sleep among adults.
There are also many creative methods, such as letting the baby sleep in tents, yurts and floors to ensure safety and reduce mutual sleep interference.
On the first night of going out to play, the baby’s night sleep may have some minor conditions due to changes in the environment, maintaining the same way of appeasement as usual, and the baby will be much better after getting used to it on the second night.
How to adjust the time difference when traveling across time zones?
Some parents will take their babies to travel to other countries during long holidays, which makes it very troublesome to take their babies to jet lag.
In fact, babies adjust jet lag faster than adults. After all, children are more tired and need more sleep.
For the time difference within 3 hours, there is no need to deliberately calibrate. The time zone span is large, and the international travel lasts for many days, so that the baby can adapt to the local food and sleep time as soon as possible.
Accepting outdoor sunlight is the best way to adjust the circadian rhythm. You can carry out more outdoor activities during the day, and arrange a small sleep and wake up according to the usual time. After a tired day, you will sleep better at night. In this way, after adjusting for one to two days, the baby will adapt to the local work and rest.
When you go out to play, you can sleep as soon as you can, don’t worry if you don’t sleep, enjoy the vacation time with your baby, and gradually return to your regular schedule as soon as possible after returning home.
Some babies will sleep more and better after a tired trip, which is also an unexpected harvest. Be fully prepared and travel at ease.