Sleep problems in babies

Lack of sleep can be a problem for parents with a baby. Your baby can sleep a number of lower than normal time from the first weeks of life; about 12 hours a day instead of the accepted . Child may sleep and wake up to these 12 hours of an abrupt, unpredictable form, so that the parents have no more than a few hours to power them sleep or perform other tasks.

Children who do not sleep a lot are by the general, full of life creatures, interested in what is happening to your around, caring and sociable. While your baby stays happy when he is awake, everything is normal and does not need the attention of the doctor. Children older than one year have very different sleep patterns.

Some need to sleep for one or two hours during the day, until they are four or five years, while others do not require any morning six-tecita, but simply their eight hours sleep at night and wake up early in the morning. Generally speaking, the child that does not need much sleep when it is a baby, nor shall long periods of sleep when she grows up. While children can do their homework well and carry out routine happily, the number of hours sleep, they will be just that need.

Lack of sleep - that is, less than eight hours of sleep in a 24 hour period - is almost never serious, although many parents seem associated with a health problem. What is Yes it can cause is a disruption of the work of the home, rest and the work of parents. If your baby does not sleep long periods of time and often wakes up to go back to sleep then you have to do is, putting in accordance with her husband, create a "shift" system so that neither of them get tired too attending to the child.

If baby is which wakes up and cries at night, always go to him, comfort him and give love. Try not to remove it from the crib and carried to his bed to sleep. If you are still crying or calling it, stay with him awhile so don't only feel. Never forget to leave next to the crib or bed your child some toys a knob with water or milk that can entertain himself if you wake up earlier than usual. If you really believe that your child is sleeping less than normal, do not fall into the error to give him a sedative without consulting with your doctor.

Accept your lack of sleep as a daily occurrence and try somehow recover their hours of sleep so it does not irritate or affect your health. Try to sleep more hours does your child and, from time to time, get that any kinswomanor friend care baby while you is enclosed in another room to sleep without any problems... to loose leg! If your child has more than two or three years, analyze if you have used the fact of going to sleep as a form of punishment. Perhaps you have done so and this has caused your child to associate the bed and sleep with a feeling of discomfort. Be attentive to the children's room is warm, quiet, cheerful and need lighting that likes the child. Anyway, if lack of sleep your child has come to an end that it is affecting your health, go to the doctor. If the child is healthy and your lack of sleep is somewhat circumstantial, can the doctor prescribe a mild sedative to bring you a routine to sleep... and so that you can recover from fatigue.