Posts Tagged ‘lack of sleep’

Improving the Quality of Child Sleep Tips

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Quality of sleep affects a child’s brain development of children, emotional and social growth. Unstable emotions, which inhibited growth and not creative at school can occur due to lack of time sleeping child.

Son of a lack of sleep can occur if the child is tired, sick, too engrossed in play, uncomfortable position while sleeping.

Some of these tips may be noticed by parents in upholding the child’s bedtime.
* Provide one-hour dinner before bed.
* Avoid foods that stimulate the brain to always be active, such as chocolate, coffee.
* Provide water or warm milk before sleeping child.
* Taking into account the comfort factor in the bedroom.
* Given the cleanliness and tidy rooms.
* Noting the color of paint on the walls of the room, should provide a soft paint colors so that children are not stimulated to always active.
* Noting that the child clothes when sleeping softly.
* Set the child’s sleep habits
* Changing the clothes the child when sweaty and wet.
* To read a story or picture to exist when he would sleep
* Listening to soft music so that children can sleep comfortably.

Smart and healthy child is a child who has a good quality sleep and this will help in dealing with other children.

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How to Make Baby Sleep Better

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Some parents often complained of lack of sleep. Because the baby likes waking up at night and fret when his desire not obeyed. No wonder if some of the Mother looked pale and tired during the day because of lack of sleep.

This problem can be overcome if the mother could create a good sleep for their babies, how to create an atmosphere like in the womb. That way the baby will be comfortable, not going to wake up and disturb Mother. Here are tips-tricks:

  • Comfortable beds
    Baby still not able to adjust to a big bed. Sleeping position with a large bed that much different from when he curled in the womb. We recommend using a box, basket, or cradle.
  • The right temperature
    not until he woke up because the room temperature is too cold or hot. When the Mother of using a fan or air conditioner, do not point directly to the baby. Room temperature no more or less than 22 degrees centigrade. If the room temperature feels too hot, replace it with a thinner shirt and baggy.
  • A soothing caress and pat
    Caress and pat lightly to soothe that will make her sleep more soundly.
  • Soft voices
    To change the heartbeat once he heard the Virgin, Mother of the buzzing sound could use a fan, radio voice, and gentle voice of his toys.
  • Sleep alone
    Give a room for him. Avoid sleeping with your baby, because sleep can be disturbed from the movement of the Mother and Father. Do not just carry her when she starts crying. With Mother even carried her wake.
  • Routines
    if the current sleep time and activity before sleep is still not regular, not too late to create the routine. Specify what time he had a warm bath, put on your nightgown, playing in bed, listening to Mother telling or singing until she fell asleep.
  • Napping enough
    do not think that if Mother did not put him to sleep during the day so he would be exhausted and fell asleep at night. On the contrary, too tired to make her sleep restless. It’s okay to reduce the hours of nap, but not to make it continue to wake up.

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Sleep disorders in infants

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Sleep habits of each child varies. But if the sleep wake up in a month after the birth of the child and the rhythms that routines are already formed. Therefore, if less than six months, children have a relatively regular sleep pattern, so be aware that this may indicate the existence of sleep disorders in infants.

A baby or toddler to sleep difficulty sleeping at night, when less than 9:00 (the problem of sleep quantity) to wake up three times, and duration of awakening more than an hour during sleep , agitated, crying and difficulty falling asleep again.

Sleep disorders in infants and children under three years are often considered trivial. Parents are usually sleep disorders in infants and young children is not a problem or just a minor problem.

In fact, lack of sleep is a serious problem that will be bad for babies and toddlers. And the need to understand the night is one of the basic needs of children, which support the achievement of optimal growth and development.

physical impact
Lack of sleep in infants and young children that interferes with the secretion of growth hormone, and regeneration of body cells, which reduces the body’s resistance. Following your baby or toddler injured. Lack of sleep also causes a child under the watchful and slightly to the accident.

emotional impact
Emotional, babies and toddlers sleep in general, less sophisticated, delicate and sweet. Self-control and was in bad mood.

The effects of cognitive and movement
The baby, who is disturbed his sleep is difficult to concentrate. Skill is not good, so that the roughness slows the engine, even excessive, while the movement of fluid under control.

Impact on caregivers and family
When babies sleep means less free time for parents and caregivers. baby sleep time at least a little, is also the caregivers a break. This could lead to stress and often associated as a cause of postpartum depression in mothers of newborns.

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