Sleep All Through The Night – Without Crying!

Too many parents and children are troubled by sleepless nights, or nights where both parents and children sleeps too little. Is is very important both to have a good place to sleep for the child, but also to develop good sleeping routines, if you want both you and your child to sleep well.

Sleep is essential, not only for children but also for adults. Nothing destroys the day easier, than the lack of a good nights sleep – especially if the sleep is disturbed several times in the night. Sleep is rejuvenating both body and soul.

Many things takes place during sleep, both in the body and in the brain. Similar to how a computer is kept tidy, the brain moves files to the right places, the consciouses is purified much like a hard drive is kept free from fragmented files. Dreams helps the brain, the consciousness and the sub-consciousness to clean themselves up and put topics together in new and constructive ways.

Rest and sleep allows the body to regenerate muscles, cells and tissue. When we sleep the body produces and releases various substances in much greater quantity than when we are awake. This includes for instance growth hormones and hormones that regulate the milk production in lactating women.

If you, night after night, is awakened every time you have just fallen asleep, most people, as the nights go, becomes depressed, psychotic or have other psychiatric disorders. It is scary to think that this is used as a torture instrument. But it also tells us, that the parents must prioritize to get their sleep back, both for sake of the child, but also for the adults.

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.

Sleeping

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.

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