Babies cry, start out of their sleep, unsound sleep because of
ignorance of parents.
Sleep is very
crucial for the development of babies
Be different from adults, children sleep to grow up. Sleep
is a series of stages including drowse, sound sleep, and short time of waking
up, then drowse, sound sleep, and get up… Sound sleep is the time when
developing hormones are generated the most. Therefore, if there is not enough
time for sound sleep, babies’ weight and height will develop more slowly than
their peers.
Children sleep more than adults. Newborn babies are sleeping
champions - 18 hours per day; 6 month-old babies – 14 hours; 6 year-old babies
– 11 hours. When they are near 16 years old, they begin sleeping as adults –
about 8 hours. However, while coaxing “the champions” – new-born babies – into
night sleep, a number of parents (especially young parents) make mistakes but
they do not know.
Here are top 5 mistakes of parents when they babies into
sleep at night, causing them to cry, be uncomfortable, and stay up late.
1.
Rapidly soothe babies when they cry
It’s not easy to go away, leave babies to cry. However,
parents remember that babies are intelligent enough to understand if parents do
not coax them when they are crying, better to accept and sleep!
As a result, if children cry when sleeping, parents should
overpower their love for babies by doing something else in order not to hear
their sobs. Wait patiently in 5 minutes (from hearing cry) for soothing babies.
Next time, extend that waiting time by 10 minutes and longer to train babies
how to keep calm themselves.
Obviously, if children are ill, sick, or tired, parents have
to identify quickly by parental instinct and coax babies for sleeping.
2.
Hug babies tight when they are sleeping
Because of loving babies too much, some parents are so
worried that they hug their children tight when sleeping. In fact, that
increases risk for babies.
Hugged too tight when sleeping, babies will feel difficult
to sleep because they breathe cloudy air in blanket and be easy to be sick.
Parents should not
hug babies too tight when they are sleeping.
3.
Feed children solid food before sleeping
Parents usually feed their babies solid food (instead of milk)
to make them not be hungry and wake up at night. In fact, nutrients in solid
food cannot be as much as a bottle of milk which is similar to babies, so they
wake up more because they still want to eat at night.
4.
Put too much toys around sleeping place
Parents usually put toys with sound and light around place
where babies sleep because they think those toys will help babies safe and be
easy to sleep. It is totally contrary in realty; the toys will make babies
awake and focus on them, and forget to sleep.
5.
Keep light in baby’s bedroom
To be convenient for breasting, changing diapers at night,
some young mothers often leave the light on all night, which affects baby’s
health. Especially, in environment of light, the sleep will reduce quality,
sleeping time is shorter, and development is slower.
Therefore, parents should keep appropriate light at place
where babies sleep. Do not turn off light to prevent them from worrying and
scaring.
