9 Nov 2018 20:52
Generation
It would seem that such small and defenseless, they are stronger than us adults. And in order to adapt to extrauterine life, newborns are constantly sleeping!
Sleep in the first months of life is necessary for children, like air, like breast milk. In the first 10-14 days, children are almost not sensitive to external stimuli, they are protected by sleep. If the baby does not sleep well, he will lag behind. The brain grows during sleep!
However, how much should a newborn sleep? Often you can find information about 16 - 20 hours of sleep. But this is “the average temperature in the hospital,” because the corridor of normal values is quite wide here - from 14 to 22 hours! If a child maintains a certain interval of sleep and wakefulness, eats well, gains weight, falls asleep without crying, then his biological clock is tuned exactly to such a schedule. For information, I will say that according to science, a newborn needs short 40-50 minute periods of activity. During this time, the child must wake up, eat, change clothes and fall asleep again. Not life, but a fairy tale. Like any fairy tale, it ever ends. And it happens somewhere in the 3-4 weeks of life.
If the parents for the first month do not accustom the child to the fact that there are concepts of "day" and "night", then you will have to make a lot of effort for this, including sacrificing your sleepless nights. Important information: the most useful sleep for a person of any age from 0 to 99 years old falls in time until 12 at night (more precisely, from 19.00 to 01.00) - everybody knows this, but they also ignore everything together. It seems to us that we will catch up later. Do not catch up. The structure of sleep in the morning is completely different, it does not contribute to the development of the brain in the newborn and the full recovery from his parents.
People often ask me: “How can a newborn be taught to sleep at night, if he wakes up every 2-3-4 hours to eat?” This is the right question, because the child has two main dominants: sleep and food. The stomach is small, it contains less than 100 ml of food, which means it asks him to eat often. We accept these laws of nature, not intending to change them. We adapt to them.
Sleep in the first months of life is necessary for children, like air, like breast milk. In the first 10-14 days, children are almost not sensitive to external stimuli, they are protected by sleep. If the baby does not sleep well, he will lag behind. The brain grows during sleep!
However, how much should a newborn sleep? Often you can find information about 16 - 20 hours of sleep. But this is “the average temperature in the hospital,” because the corridor of normal values is quite wide here - from 14 to 22 hours! If a child maintains a certain interval of sleep and wakefulness, eats well, gains weight, falls asleep without crying, then his biological clock is tuned exactly to such a schedule. For information, I will say that according to science, a newborn needs short 40-50 minute periods of activity. During this time, the child must wake up, eat, change clothes and fall asleep again. Not life, but a fairy tale. Like any fairy tale, it ever ends. And it happens somewhere in the 3-4 weeks of life.
If the parents for the first month do not accustom the child to the fact that there are concepts of "day" and "night", then you will have to make a lot of effort for this, including sacrificing your sleepless nights. Important information: the most useful sleep for a person of any age from 0 to 99 years old falls in time until 12 at night (more precisely, from 19.00 to 01.00) - everybody knows this, but they also ignore everything together. It seems to us that we will catch up later. Do not catch up. The structure of sleep in the morning is completely different, it does not contribute to the development of the brain in the newborn and the full recovery from his parents.
People often ask me: “How can a newborn be taught to sleep at night, if he wakes up every 2-3-4 hours to eat?” This is the right question, because the child has two main dominants: sleep and food. The stomach is small, it contains less than 100 ml of food, which means it asks him to eat often. We accept these laws of nature, not intending to change them. We adapt to them.
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