Babies cry at night, which is a big problem for many mothers. What causes the baby not to sleep at night?
Why don't babies sleep at night?
The baby is sick: the baby's nutrition is not enough, often easy to get sick, calcium deficiency is one of the primary factors leading to the baby's unstable sleep, leading to the baby wake up at night, night terrors, restlessness at night, restless sleep. In addition, the lack of vitamin D results in calcium, phosphorus metabolism disorders, blood calcium decreased, medically known as hypocalcemia, more manifesting as irritability, crying, grinding people, hair scared, serious can occur gout. If this is the case, it is necessary to see a doctor, and to give the baby appropriate calcium, vitamin D and more sun. In addition, baby teething or other diseases can also cause restless sleep. The night before illness or fever is often restless. All these require careful observation and judgment.
Baby hungry: there are many reasons for baby crying. Besides crying when sick, baby may be hungry. Babies go to bed because they don't have enough to eat, which is a common reason for babies in the first few months. If you find that the baby is always sucking in bed, sometimes the baby may just need to suck, but sometimes the baby is really hungry and can't sleep. Artificial feeding of the baby, parents can take a pacifier to test the baby is or not to drink milk, the baby needs to drink milk will put the parents to his pacifier spit out.
Stomach discomfort: if you do not give your baby a reasonable diet, excessive intake, food is too cold, food is too cold, unreasonable food configuration may cause indigestion, abdominal distension and discomfort, the baby may be because of flatulence, constipation, or simple abdominal colic and can't sleep.
The baby is too hot: the most common reason for the baby not to sleep is that the bag is too thick, especially for the baby half a year ago. Parents are always afraid that the baby will catch cold and wear more quilts. In fact, the metabolism of the baby is faster than that of the adult. Too many clothes will cause the baby to be irritable, crying and not to sleep.
Play too much: this kind of baby is characterized by love to laugh, too excited to play before going to bed, too active brain, too full of energy, this kind of baby is to keep moving to feel very comfortable, let him stop, do not say also do not move, that is too hard for him, before going to bed is a good opportunity for him to show his talents.
Want to be accompanied by mom and Dad: this kind of baby is highly dependent, too attached to the feeling that mom and dad are around, too need the caress and doting of mom and Dad, leaving mom and dad will lack a sense of security, so the baby must be in a 'sober' state in a circuitous way to express this feeling.
The baby does not sleep problem is need to pay attention to, because the harm is still great, children do not sleep or lack of sleep easily lead to malnutrition, will affect the growth and development. So how to let the baby sleep early at night?
A good way for a baby to fall asleep
1. Reduce your baby's sleeping time during the day
In the daytime, you can play with your baby more, or put your baby in a place with enough light to make it difficult to fall asleep; wake up your baby every two hours, do not rush to feed after waking up, play with him for half an hour before feeding. In the evening, try to dim the light, quiet environment, make it comfortable and can sleep.
2. Develop their ability to sleep alone
Some babies are used to sleeping in the arms of their parents, and their parents also dare to put the baby on the bed after the baby is completely asleep. But the experiment confirmed that compared with the babies who go to bed after falling asleep, the babies who go to bed when they are fully awake or sleepy have less times to wake up at night, and the longest continuous sleep time is also longer.
3. Let the baby share a different bed with his parents
The study found that compared with the babies who sleep in the same bed, the babies who sleep in the same room with different beds and in a separate room need shorter time to fall asleep, fewer times to wake up at night and higher sleep efficiency.
4. Use diapers and other parenting behaviors to improve the efficiency of baby's night sleep
When the baby is asleep, it's hard to avoid wetting the bed. Parents often change diapers, which will disturb the baby's sleep. Diapers can help babies sleep longer and wake up less often.
Baby sleep is very important, if the baby does not sleep at night, the mother should find out the reason in time and master the trick to let the child sleep safely.