When a baby enters the house, the rhythm of the life of all members of the family changes completely. Sometimes cares about the baby can cause not only pleasant emotions, but also nervousness, excitement about ignorance of the child's vital functions.
The most common cause of parents' unrest is restless sleep in the baby. It is not for nothing that pediatricians from all over the world attach great importance to the process of resting an infant, since a child's sleep disorder can be a prerequisite for serious neurological diseases or diseases of internal organs.
Causes of sleep disorders in children and their treatment
The first few weeks of infants often confuse the day with the night, since they have not yet established a sleep and wakefulness regime, different from the intrauterine state. This indicates a violation of adaptation and adaptation to environmental conditions. In this case, you just wait: the sleep disorders will pass by themselves as the baby grows up.
Sometimes restless sleep can cause a change in the weather or a shifting day regimen. In this case, violations of the sleep and wakeful periods are normalized immediately upon the first elimination of the irritating factor.
When the baby is still very small, it can often be pained by colic, bloating and this can become one of the main causes of restless sleep in a child. It is impossible to cure colic, you can only alleviate the child's condition: more often put on the mother's stomach, so he felt warm and felt safe. You can use warm compresses on the abdominal area to reduce bloating. Such medicines as planktex, baby cream, containing dill water, help to relax the muscles of the stomach and get rid of colic.
In the older age, sleep disturbances can be caused by teething, overexcited before bedtime during active games.
Symptoms of sleep disturbance
During a dream, babies can observe such phenomena as:
- twitching of limbs;
- wince;
- increased sweating;
- violation of breathing.
Breathing should be watched especially carefully, since there is such a thing as a nocturnal apnea, characterized by a brief respiratory arrest. In this case, consultation with a pediatrician is necessary.
Methods for improving sleep and wakefulness
In the case of detecting sleep disorders, it is important to clearly plan the day's schedule of the child and introduce the rituals of going to sleep. One hour before sleep, you need to reduce the number of active games, preferring such calmer activities as reading fairy tales, viewing pictures. Bathing is most significant before going to sleep, as it allows you to remove the psychophysical tension in the body that has accumulated over the day. The child feels more relaxed, calm. And the addition of special herbs to the bath will only enhance the sedative effect. It is also necessary to properly maintain the hygiene and cleanliness of the air in the children's room. Scientists have proved that in a fresh cool room the baby falls asleep more quickly and his sleep is stronger than he will sleep in a stuffy room. Therefore, before going to bed, it is absolutely necessary to ventilate the room where the child sleeps.
Some parents support the method of sharing sleep with a child. Sometimes it happens that in a detached bed the baby sleeps worse than under the mother's side. Because so he feels safe, feels the maternal warmth and the smell of milk. His sleep normalizes on his own without the intervention of doctors.
It should be remembered that the baby is very sensitive to the condition of the mother and it is directly projected onto the child. If the mother
Before going to sleep, you should create an appropriate environment: turn off the lights and talk in a whisper. Mom can sing songs, lullabies and, feeling the mother's voice, the kid will feel safe. And when the baby is calm, there is no room for sleep disturbances.
Most seldom there is restless sleep in children who are breastfed and who are fed on demand. Mom's closeness, her care and love can get rid of restless sleep.