First, excessively stimulate and tease the baby before going to bed.
The second month after the baby came out, The awake time starts to grow longer, and the eyesight and hearing gradually improve. At this time, the baby will not completely avoid stimulation, and the sleep problem will begin to highlight. For babies within four months old, they do not have the ability to block information unrelated to sleep, nor do they have the energy to pick out information related to sleep from various stimuli.
Therefore, even if the baby is sleepy, he will still [be forced] to wake up. At this time, the baby will have difficulty falling asleep, crying for a long time, excessive excitement and other difficult situations. Even after falling asleep, the baby is easy to wake up frequently and cry, and the nap is very short.
- For babies less than 4 months old, Not only should we avoid excessive stimulation before going to bed, The same should be true in normal times. For example, Don’t take your baby to attend a lively wedding, don’t play too much before going to bed, etc. For babies over 4 months old, all kinds of stimulation such as playing before going to bed will make them too excited and difficult to fall asleep, even if they fall asleep, they will dream too much. In addition, even for children over 3 years old, excessive stimulation before going to bed may also lead to night terror.
Second, postpone the baby’s sleep time
When it comes to sleeping late, melatonin must be mentioned.
Melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland in the brain to adjust the circadian rhythm of the human body. Affected by light, melatonin starts to secrete when night falls, peaks at 2 ~ 3 a.m. and stops secreting in the morning.
However, melatonin secretion is affected by artificial light. Lights that light up until midnight at home will interfere with the baby’s biological clock, forcing the baby to sleep late.
- The secretion of melatonin in newborn babies will be close to that of adults at about 3 months old. At this time, the sleep of newborn babies will be clear day and night. The recommended sleep time for babies under 8 weeks to 1 year old at night is between 6 and 8 o’clock in the evening. (If it is a baby living in Xinjiang, Tibet and other places, please add two hours to this time.)
Three, when the baby wakes up at night, directly plug milk
The reasons for the baby to wake up at night are very complicated, generally there are the following:
- Sleep environment factors: temperature, dry humidity, noise baby’s own factors: discomfort, flatulence, stinky, diaper leakage and other sleep too late and excessive stimulation
However, many mothers will subconsciously feed their babies when they wake up at night. This is understandable, after all, when the mother is awakened in the middle of the night, the mind cannot make rational analysis and judgment.
The problem is that without checking why the baby wakes up at night and directly stuffing milk, in many cases it will not only fail to solve the problem of the baby’s waking up at night, but also cause more waking up at night.
Four, the baby woke up at night when excessive intervention
Baby in sleep cycle alternate, will have a short period of half awake. At this stage, the baby will have a series of movements, such as grabbing face, chewing, turning over, crying, talking in sleep, etc. Sometimes, the baby will briefly open his eyes, even sit up, stand up.
However, all the above actions do not mean that the baby really wakes up. At this time, if the mother quickly picks up the baby to appease and nurse it, sometimes it will make the baby awake completely.
When the baby wakes up at night, the correct way should be to observe first to see if the baby really wakes up, and then check the reason. When it is found that the baby really needs breast-feeding or comfort, then breast-feeding or comfort.