If there is a what that every novice mother dreams of, it must be a good night’s sleep. The problem of baby’s sleep at night has always been a big proposition perplexing newborn parents, and [room and bed sharing] and [room and bed sharing] have been controversial.
How old is the baby to start splitting beds,
In November 2016, AAP updated several recommendations on the safe water surface sleep environment for babies. The recommendations show that newborns should sleep in the same room with their parents before they are 1 year old 6 months after birth, but they need to sleep in their cribs or cradles, while after one year old, they begin to consider sleeping in separate rooms with their parents.
However, a follow-up study published in Pediatrics shows that babies are more likely to suffer from separation anxiety after the age of 1 when sleeping in separate rooms. Therefore, the study suggests that trying to sleep in separate beds and rooms within 1 year old and earlier can help babies to establish healthier sleep.
There are many benefits for babies to sleep in separate rooms.
It is helpful for baby’s physical and mental health.
Giving the baby a separate sleep space, the baby can get more fresh air and enough room to turn over and move, which can ensure that the baby’s sleep will not be disturbed, so that the baby can get a relatively stable environment and is beneficial to the baby’s physical and mental health.
Mother’s Sleep Quality Assurance
While ensuring the baby’s health, the mother can also get a relatively complete sleep time. There is no need to worry about pressing the baby during sleep or suffocating the baby due to clothes and quilts.
Parents’ Private Space
Sleeping in the same room with the baby will make the mother put more energy on the baby and make the partner receive snub. Give the baby an independent sleeping space, cultivate the independent consciousness of the baby, and at the same time, it can also create more private space for parents and have more opportunities for emotional communication.
So is it really safe to sleep in separate rooms?
Sleeping in separate rooms will not increase the probability of sudden infant death.
In the past, it was recommended to sleep in the same room, mainly to reduce the occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome. Sudden infant death syndrome is the most common cause of death for infants within 28 days to 1 year old after birth. Generally, it occurs frequently from midnight to early morning, and almost all of them occur during infant sleep.
CDC research in the United States shows that 90% of sudden infant death syndrome occurs within 6 months, and it is rare after 8 months. In other words, the risk of sudden death should be much lower for babies after 8 months, whether they share or share rooms with adults.
Sleeping in separate rooms will not affect the formation of baby’s character,
Qin Nan, a primary school mental health teacher, said, Who the baby sleeps with has little effect on the formation of character. The growth of a child’s character is a complicated and long process. The development of character, it is difficult to because of a certain thing and determine the final direction of development. The baby who does not divide the room has a higher degree of intimacy with his parents and will behave more obediently, but the baby who sleeps with his mother has a more complete character, which is groundless.
Three Suggestions to Help Your Baby Sleep in Different Rooms
For parents’ proposal to sleep in separate rooms, it is usually difficult for babies to accept calmly at first. According to the advice of psychologists, we give the following three suggestions according to different situations.
Split the beds before dividing the rooms.
When the baby was just born, We recommend parents and children to separate beds and rooms, reduce the risk of sudden infant death, at the same time, give the baby a relatively independent space, let the baby gradually realize the fun of having independent space. As the baby grows up, they will realize that having independent space will make them more comfortable, and it will be relatively easy to propose separate rooms at this time.
Communicate with children on an equal footing
Equality is two-way, while taking care of children’s demands, parents cannot blindly compromise. In the long run, bad emotions will accumulate and will inevitably vent on children, which will eventually endanger children’s growth and will also be detrimental to the establishment of harmonious family relations.
Be firm and gentle in attitude
In the process of gradually forming the habit of sleeping in separate rooms, Children will inevitably have emotional repetition, May one day suddenly want to sleep with their parents. At this time, parents should relax, because it is normal for this kind of situation to happen occasionally. Gentle and firm refusal of children, expression of parents’ desire to sleep, is conducive to reducing the probability of children’s recurrent attacks, and can also establish parents’ prestige in family education.