Baby sleep is to give novice parents too much too much trouble. Recently, the community mothers always talked about babies sleep, "the children have been playing, not sleepy?" "Don't turn off the lights?" "I know it well, but he is not asleep"......
Babies need regular daytime sleep, regular nighttime sleep and regular meals, and their young minds need to get a sense of security from the law. A lot of babies have not formed the regular sleep habits, there is no "go to sleep" tacit understanding. So the question is, how to establish such a tacit understanding? Today, it's easy to talk about, but often overlooked, bedtime rituals.
Parents need to know, you can't expect the child from the daytime excited, busy mood suddenly entered the sleep state, moreover, compared with the car in the living room, turn off the lights to sleep is really not what attraction. In order to help your baby from the psychological and physiological preparation of sleep, a quiet bedtime ritual is necessary.
Children sleep disorders expert Judith Owens said, in a series of children before pleasure, calm, and then turn off the light, it is very important to the program, can help children prepare for sleep.
Even adults, who go to bed every day before going to bed, perform some specific programs and activities that are good for the body. If you just finished or high with friends and partners of brainstorming, to lie down on the bed will be more difficult to fall asleep (serious lack of sleep is not ah seconds), if you can take a shower, drink a cup of milk, listen to music or read, it's easier to enter into the rest, relax state.
Activities that can help the baby to sleep:
1, before the child to sleep, as far as possible to reduce the external stimuli: noise, lighting, play, etc.;
2, turn off the lights, the bedroom to keep quiet, warm, but not overheated;
3, give the child a bath;
4, after the bath, gently massage the whole body;
5, wearing pajamas;
6, the baby in the cradle shaking, covered the baby dry blanket;
7, light singing or humming a cradle;
8, said the baby most like to listen to the word or phrase, the baby like to listen to the sound of;
9, feeding the baby;
10, the child began to make a trap, put the child on the bed, the process should be light, do not wake up the child;
11, do not make a sound on the baby rushed to see what is going on in the end.
One and a half to two years old preschool children:
1, bathing, brushing, pajamas, can play a quiet game with children, read a story, or sing a song, or listen to soft classical music.
2, with music or flash of toys to be taken before the child fell asleep.
3, observe the baby's sleep signal, to see when he began to sleep, must let the child lie down before the excessive fatigue.
4, the night's sleep ritual in the baby's room, and can not be around at random at home, so he knew he should calm down to sleep.
5, if you want to hold the baby in the room pacing or jogging, but also try to short, and should be in the baby's room.
6, parents to the baby in bed behavior, such as crying, throw toys, etc. to make the same response, such a united front can convey a very clear understanding of the information, to prevent the child's bad behavior.
7, some young children may like parents every night for him to make the same ceremony. This includes singing the same song, playing the same game, or reading the same book over and over again.
8, from about two years old, tell the child how sweet he looks when he is sleeping.
M children (20 months) before bedtime ritual sharing:
1, rice autumn and winter dinner time at 5:30 ~6 point, 6:30 ~7 points to take a shower, brush teeth, change pajamas.
2, 7 point reading picture books, (the recent m love listen to chick guqin music, in bed listening to classical music, soft imperceptibly asleep)
3, 7:50 and the curtains on the kitten "good night"". (m always love cats, so rice mother is very sketchy to buy Hello Kitty curtain, let the baby love on my own room, looking forward to every night and small cats sleep together.)
4, and then my mother hug, lie down and cover the quilt, (now the night also holding a small rabbit plush toy), turn off the lights.
5 meters, and the mother hand light song.
6, 8 point ~8 point and a half, rice into sleep state. Get up at 7 the next morning.
Helps to cultivate the bedtime ritual book
"The bed," the bear
This picture books warm elegant, delicate strokes, very suitable for reading before bed.
This is a very good picture books to read before going to bed, you can develop a good living habits of the baby to sleep on time. After reading this book, the baby will be the same and bear into dreamland aoife, in a perfect ending in.
At the same time, the baby can also be under the guidance of the mother, understanding the different habits of animals, know which animals are active during the day, which animals are active at night.
"Guess how much I love you"
Very warm picture books, although not a bedtime ritual, but between the big and little rabbit that love is very touching, mom can also use hands and feet like a picture book as "trying to love you".