Why the child does not sleep.

A healthy, strong and prolonged sleep for children is a great joy for parents. But very few people manage to raise a child and not spend a couple of sleepless nights. And some of the newly-born parents, about the night dream can only dream of.

So why does not the child sleep?

The reasons for the anxiety of the baby and the lack of a good sleep can be many. Ideally, infants should sleep for most of the day. But why do so many parents complain that the first months after the birth of a child they absolutely can not sleep?

One of the reasons why a child does not sleep, there may be colic. Worry they are most often boys and last sometimes up to 3 months of age. If the baby tries to sleep, but periodically strains his stomach, pulls his legs to him and begins to cry, then this is just a manifestation of his bothersome colic. In this case, you need to contact the pediatrician, and he will help pick up a medical product that will improve the baby's condition and give him peace of mind.

The reason that a child does not sleep, can be in clothes that are uncomfortable for a baby, in a mattress and bed linen that are not matched correctly. Try to buy clothes for the child only from natural fabrics, which does not have buttons and fasteners on the back or chest, and also does not restrict its movement.

Very often the child does not sleep, if in the nursery is very hot and dry air. The kid sweats, feels uncomfortable and therefore can not fall asleep. In addition, because of the dryness of the air in the nasal passages, crusts may form, which interfere with good air flow and make breathing difficult.

The child does not sleep during the day

Often the parents of babies, who in infancy did not suffer from any sleep disturbances, are very surprised when their grown-up child refuses to sleep during the day. In most cases - it's not the whims and whims of the baby, and the inability of parents to adapt and adjust to the characteristics of the growing body.

With each month, the need for a child's body in a dream to become less. Therefore, the duration of a day's sleep should become shorter. In a year, a child can have one day's sleep lasting from 2 to 3 hours.

We are talking about the norm. But after all all children are individual, therefore also needs at them different. Of course, if laying a baby for daytime sleep does not bring anything but hysteria, and even at night the child is getting worse and worse, then most likely, it is not necessary to torment the little man with hours of motion sickness, but simply add a few hours in favor of a night's sleep and lay Early baby.

What to do if a child asks for a parent's bed

Many young parents are faced with the fact that the child does not sleep in the crib, but when she finds herself under the cushion of Mom and Dad, in an adult bed, she immediately falls asleep.

What is the reason for this childish selectivity?

Most often, next to the mother, the baby feels much more comfortable than alone. Heat of the native body, familiar and native smell, even my mother's sniffs help the baby relax and soon fall asleep.

Sometimes adults themselves are to blame for the layered situation, when the baby does not fall asleep in his bed. A huge role is played by the factor of "accustoming" the child to an adult bed. If you have not seen anything bad in a joint dream with a baby for a long time, but at one point, having decided that he is already an adult, moved him to a separate crib, then you should not be surprised at the head with which the kid will aspire back. Having found himself in unusual conditions for him, the child does not sleep and is capricious in order to attract attention and get what he needs now. So if you initially do not plan a long joint sleep, you do not even need to take a child to your bed for one night, thinking that nothing will happen exactly once.