This is a particularly common distress in parenting education. It is really devastating for adults that babies wake up frequently at night. When people look around for the reason, but can't find the reason, it usually comes down to whether the milk is not enough to eat, the baby is hungry and can't sleep well at night. In fact, most cases usually have little to do with breastfeeding.
I understand that everyone is confused. If not hungry, why can't the baby sleep well at night? That's because mothers often say that babies often wake up at night and can't sleep. We can first find the reasons and solutions from the following aspects.
1, sleep quality and comfortable natural environment, including temperature, ambient humidity, bedding set, light, noise, etc. There are many babies, especially in winter, and it is sweaty to feed them. In fact, the baby is not necessarily too hot in the natural environment. It is suggested that the room temperature should always be kept at 24-26℃ and the air humidity should be around 50% to keep the temperature and humidity records relatively stable.
Temperature-everyone wants to know whether the children's clothes are suitable. You can touch the back of his neck. Damp heat and body cold are more suitable conditions. Of course, just because his hands and feet are a little cold doesn't mean he is cold.
Ambient Humidity-Why should the ambient humidity of everyone's room be appropriately increased? Because if the indoor environment is too dry, children are likely to feel uncomfortable because of dry throat or mucus in their noses.
Bedding kit-it is best not to put extra dirty things such as plush dolls at the baby's bedside. On the one hand, it is to better consider the safety of the baby, to prevent the baby's mouth and nose from being accidentally blocked by dirty things, or the plush doll is inconvenient to clean and breed germs, mites and other hazards to the baby's physical and mental health; On the other hand, it is also to prevent the baby from getting used to it after the changes of bedside items are destroyed in the future. Therefore, there is no need to put any extra dirt beside the bed. /kloc-children under 0/year-old don't even need to put the pillow core because the head and neck curve has not yet been generated, just need a towel or quilt to keep warm.
Lights-Many parents choose to put a desk lamp in their baby's room, which is actually unnecessary. Unless parents have to turn on a little light of the desk lamp at night when nursing their baby and changing diapers, it is best not to have lights that endanger the baby's sleep quality.
Noise-in addition, it is easy for parents to ignore noise, but the sound does not necessarily remain quiet. I have seen many parents automatically switch to silent mode when their children are sleeping, talking loudly, walking on tiptoe and drinking water is not too loud.
Actually, there's no need to do this. We all want to be relatively quiet while ensuring the quality of our baby's sleep, but we don't want to create an intentional quiet natural environment in the countryside. Excessive quiet natural environment will make children more sensitive to English listening when they sleep, and they will be awakened when there is any movement.
In addition, you can try to calm your child with soft and regular sounds, such as soft songs when changing channels or white noise from fans or tape recorders, but be careful not to get too close to your child's ears or play videos for too long.
2, the baby's physical condition The second factor that cannot be ignored is to check the baby's physical condition. Is she sick? Does she have a high fever? Take a temperature. Some common health conditions that endanger the sleep quality of infants are flatulence, otitis media, cold and stuffy nose, and swelling of long roots.
If it is caused by illness, parents must take their children to see a doctor as soon as possible. After solving the health condition, the quality of children's sleep seems to be at ease.
In the case of flatulence, try to improve the baby's flatulence by breastfeeding, and change the posture to hold the baby (such as airplane hug) and burp, assist the baby's exhaust pipe, and eliminate the uncomfortable feeling.
If the nose is blocked, before the baby goes to sleep, use a nasal aspirator to help the baby suck out the runny nose, and pay attention to adjusting the humidity of the home to 50%, which can make the baby's nose inhale more smoothly.
Then, if the child has teeth recently, the root is swollen and painful, and he is awake at ordinary times, he can bite the root of the molar for him to relieve the discomfort of the lower teeth. Teeth are temporary, and it is not easy to destroy you and your baby all the time.
3, daytime schedule, daytime schedule, focus on two points, sleep quality and fitness exercise. The baby can't sleep well at night, sometimes because he sleeps too much during the day. According to the specific situation of the baby, the mother can moderately reduce the lunch break during the day as much as possible, but there is no need to disturb the baby's lunch break all day.
Parents don't have to greatly reduce their baby's lunch break in broad daylight because of the phrase "if you don't sleep well at night, you sleep too much in broad daylight". We should adjust the sleep time according to the children's age and personal advantages. In some cases, children are too excited because they have been stimulated too much in broad daylight. Neither overwork nor overstimulation can make the baby sleep well at night.
Fitness exercise-the baby's exercise intensity is also closely related to the quality of sleep. Many parents have some misunderstandings about the exercise of small-month-old babies. They thought, "I took him out for a walk today. Is the exercise intensity enough? " Then you have to think for yourself first. Is it your exercise or your child's exercise? Whether an adult is pregnant or sitting in a cart, it is not active for a baby to go out for a walk like that.
In addition to the above three fundamental aspects that endanger the baby's sleep quality, there will naturally continue to be various reasons for the baby to wake up at night. The most important thing for parents is to observe their children carefully and find out their requirements. One thing that people often confuse is that they mistakenly "take their own requirements as their own baby's requirements".
In addition, talk to other parents and pediatricians, and firmly believe that many unexpected methods can be found. After all, people's intelligence is infinite!