A lot of families with children are plagued by sleepless nights, where parents and children sleeps badly and sleep too little. It is imperative, that you have a safe sleeping place for your child and that you have good routines about falling asleep and about sleeping. If so, there is a high probability that the quiet nights also will come to you.
Sleep is important for everyone - adults and children alike. If you are unable to sleep, or if you are woken many times when you want to sleep, it may destroy both night and day for you. For sleep is invigorating for the soul and body.
A lot happens in both the body and the brain during sleep. What takes place in the brain during sleep, can be compared to how a computer is organized and kept tidy. For instance, files must be placed in the right folders, the hard drive must be defragmented now and then to avoid it becoming cluttered. Dreams are the equivalent to computer clean up programs, the consciousness is rinsed from old scraps and issues are dealt with in new and constructive ways.
The body relaxes the muscles and regenerates the cells during sleep. Different substances are produced and released in the body in much larger quantities during sleep. Hormones, such as growth hormones and hormones that regulated the milk production in lactating women, are produced and released during sleep.
Most people will, if they are depraved sleep over a period, develop different psychiatric disorders, become depressed or psychotic. Deprivation of sleep is a well know way of torture for this exact reason, and this should remind us just how important it is that parents prioritize sleep, bot the their child, but also for themselves.
Although sleep is very important to all families, falling asleep and sleeping does not necessarily happen by itself for everyone. The first thing is to make sure you have a good place to sleep.
How to fall asleep
Much of a baby's sleep is REM sleep or "dream sleep". Dream sleep is shallow, breathing is irregular and the eyes move quickly behind the closed eyelids. In this stage babies often wakes up easily, but often they fall back into sleep right away. A gentle touch on the child's forehead, hand or check is often enough to bring the child back into dream land.
When a child is tired, it must be allowed to sleep. The child sleeps better if it has a clean diaper, is full and the temperature is pleasant. If it can be avoided, don't accustom your baby to sleep with a breast or a pacifier in his or hers mouth. It is also unwise to accustom the child to hold the father's or mother's hand when it is about to sleep. Then the pacifier, the breast or the hands will be the signal to that now is the time to sleep for the child. Crying can also work the same way if the child gets used to cry before sleeping. The trick is to make the child falls asleep without any specific stimuli.
It is not good for any children for them to cry themselves to sleep. A child that cries must be comforted. If something is wrong, you must help the child. Food, clean diaper, less light or less noise or more security. Is the child sick, then you must consider what is wrong. Is it hot (signs of fever)? Is it cold? Is it a stomach ache? Is this constipation? Consider wether a health visitor or doctor should be contacted and asked for advice. - 30224
Sleep is important for everyone - adults and children alike. If you are unable to sleep, or if you are woken many times when you want to sleep, it may destroy both night and day for you. For sleep is invigorating for the soul and body.
A lot happens in both the body and the brain during sleep. What takes place in the brain during sleep, can be compared to how a computer is organized and kept tidy. For instance, files must be placed in the right folders, the hard drive must be defragmented now and then to avoid it becoming cluttered. Dreams are the equivalent to computer clean up programs, the consciousness is rinsed from old scraps and issues are dealt with in new and constructive ways.
The body relaxes the muscles and regenerates the cells during sleep. Different substances are produced and released in the body in much larger quantities during sleep. Hormones, such as growth hormones and hormones that regulated the milk production in lactating women, are produced and released during sleep.
Most people will, if they are depraved sleep over a period, develop different psychiatric disorders, become depressed or psychotic. Deprivation of sleep is a well know way of torture for this exact reason, and this should remind us just how important it is that parents prioritize sleep, bot the their child, but also for themselves.
Although sleep is very important to all families, falling asleep and sleeping does not necessarily happen by itself for everyone. The first thing is to make sure you have a good place to sleep.
How to fall asleep
Much of a baby's sleep is REM sleep or "dream sleep". Dream sleep is shallow, breathing is irregular and the eyes move quickly behind the closed eyelids. In this stage babies often wakes up easily, but often they fall back into sleep right away. A gentle touch on the child's forehead, hand or check is often enough to bring the child back into dream land.
When a child is tired, it must be allowed to sleep. The child sleeps better if it has a clean diaper, is full and the temperature is pleasant. If it can be avoided, don't accustom your baby to sleep with a breast or a pacifier in his or hers mouth. It is also unwise to accustom the child to hold the father's or mother's hand when it is about to sleep. Then the pacifier, the breast or the hands will be the signal to that now is the time to sleep for the child. Crying can also work the same way if the child gets used to cry before sleeping. The trick is to make the child falls asleep without any specific stimuli.
It is not good for any children for them to cry themselves to sleep. A child that cries must be comforted. If something is wrong, you must help the child. Food, clean diaper, less light or less noise or more security. Is the child sick, then you must consider what is wrong. Is it hot (signs of fever)? Is it cold? Is it a stomach ache? Is this constipation? Consider wether a health visitor or doctor should be contacted and asked for advice. - 30224
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