Children who don't sleep well don't necessarily "lack something."

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"Doctor, my child sleeps very badly, do you think what is missing?" Parents often ask this question in the clinic every day.

More than a third of childhood is spent in sleep, and sleep quality is very important for children's health. In addition to helping to restore physical strength, strengthen the body's immunity and resistance, sleep also has a special significance in promoting growth and development, because growth hormone can only reach a high level of secretion during deep sleep.

In fact, "bad sleep" and "lack of what" has little to do with. Most of the so-called sleep problems are natural physiological phenomena in the process of children's growth. As long as we pay attention to the change of nursing mode and the sleep environment, most of them can be gradually improved over time.

Here's a look at the reasons why children don't sleep well.

1. Excessive interference of mothers and infants in the same bed and with their caregivers. Currently, different countries and cultures have different opinions on whether to sleep in separate beds or not. Whether a child sleeps with an adult or in separate beds, too much parental intervention can lead to sleep problems.

2. Environmental temperature changes. The study found that sleep is the best environment temperature 29 ℃, too high or too low, sleep schedule will be shortened.

3. Family environment. The family relationship is tense, the parents are not harmonious, the mother is in a state of depression, the education way of raising a child is too strict or loose, may have a negative impact on the child's sleep.

Diseases and drugs. Fever has a particularly pronounced effect on sleep. Some drugs, such as aspirin, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors, can inhibit sleep.

There are many factors that affect sleep, but in many cases, parents believe that children's sleep problems are probably normal sleep patterns for children of this age group, and the reason why parents bring their children to see the doctor is usually because the children's sleep patterns repeatedly affect their parents' sleep. To help parents improve their children's sleep, here are some tips.

Sleep time and incubation period. It is generally recommended to fall asleep before 10 p.m., and the incubation period from bedtime to actual sleep should be less than half an hour. If your child is going to bed earlier and has a longer incubation period (1 to 2 hours), try postponing the bedtime. Don't get too excited before bed.

The process of falling asleep. Pre-bedtime demands or behaviors include: listening to stories, listening to music, needing pacifiers or other objects, turning on lights, tossing and turning in bed, and even having to be cuddled. Advice when children should complete a bath, eat milk before go to bed, brush my teeth, and solution, etc., according to the child usual sleep time is half an hour to go to bed early, to go to bed after can tell a story or listening to soothing songs () in about ten minutes, and then you can turn off the lights (a small night lamp) and parents can accompany beside, but no longer made noises and interfere with the child to sleep. Children can use pacifiers or suck their fingers. If the child usually falls asleep later, you can gradually go to bed earlier and sleep time. In the first few weeks after birth, parents, grandparents, nannies and others can be involved in the process of putting a child to sleep, in addition to the mother, so that the child does not associate just one person with putting him to bed.

During sleep. If your child wakes up at night, try to minimize cuddling and eating until it stops altogether.