Very sleepy, but refuses to go to sleep Explanation: Overly tired infants act excited, irritable, impatient, and have difficulty sleeping because the body chemicals are fighting fatigue. Lack of sleep causes the central nervous system to be highly awake, awake too long, and too tired to easily trigger bedtime crying. Countermeasure: Soothe and arrange the sleep environment before your baby gets very sleepy. Daytime refuses to wake up, nighttime refuses to sleep Interpretation: Sometimes babies do not wake up even 3 or 4 hours during the day or get up too late in the morning, they are prone to day-night reversal, have difficulty falling asleep at night, wake up 2 hours or even 1 hour after sleeping, get up in the middle of the night to play and so on. Countermeasures: Maintain the amount of activity during the day and receive daylight exposure. Do not make the light too dark during daytime sleep, so that babies can slowly distinguish between day and night. Rest earlier at night, the house should be dark, before bedtime you can give your baby a warm bath, play soothing music, do touch, all of which can help reduce the possibility of circadian disruption. In the hands of a good sleep, a put down to wake up Interpretation: 3 months old babies, sleep first into about 20 minutes of light sleep, so if you fall asleep in the arms of adults, it is easier to move to bed at this time to wake up. Countermeasures: Generally wait for 20 minutes after the deep sleep and then put or directly in bed to fall asleep, reduce the steps to put down can be alleviated. Three months later, sleep will first enter deep sleep, the phenomenon of not being able to put down will be improved. Sometimes it’s better to be careful than to relax and tell the baby “Mommy is going to put the baby to sleep in bed”, so the baby will be less likely to be frightened. In addition, babies have a high proportion of light sleep, and light sleep during the eyes open twice and even cry twice, are normal, do not misunderstand as already woke up, thus causing excessive interference with sleep. Once people go away, they wake up Interpretation: Sometimes babies have been sleeping motionless for ten minutes, and wake up when people go away, even if the movement is light …… as if it comes with radar. In fact, the same sound has a different effect on human wakefulness, whether to wake up and psychological expectations related. For example, the volume is exactly the same, sleep hear normal noise often can continue to sleep peacefully, while hear the building fire alarm but often immediately awakened. Countermeasures: When you encounter this phenomenon, you must say hello to your baby, you need to tell him that this is a normal sound, and explain to him that he is sleeping peacefully and that his mother is just getting up and not going far. Some mothers say their children are particularly sensitive to sound, sometimes roll over, the bed emits a very slight sound on waking up, so they have to hold back from rolling over ….. You can try to do desensitization, awake to play when the demonstration to the child: “You sleep when mom is so turn over, and then the bed will ring, you listen is this sound oh, do not be afraid, normal.” The scene reproduces the source of the sound, helping them not to associate such sounds with fear. Waking up once every half hour Interpretation: Infants generally sleep in cycles of about 30-45 minutes, shorter than adults, and wake up easily at the end of the cycle. The sleep cycle gradually lengthens during the 4-6 month period, when they sleep a little longer. The increased ability to sleep also allows for an increase in the sleep cycle contained in a single nap and a longer nap time. Parents often have the preconception that a nap is the end of a half hour and arrange for waking activities rather than encouraging the infant to go back to sleep as in the case of a midnight wake. For a long time, the child will not wake up and need to continue to sleep awareness, short naps become a habit. Countermeasures: Short naps are influenced by developmental stages and sleep habits, and are one of the biggest problems in the first 6 months of life. When artificial interference factors are excluded, it is still possible to sleep short due to physiological conditions, or to be patient and calm, avoiding excessive anxiety. Twitching after sleep Interpretation: infant brain development is not yet perfect, sleep control muscle movement of the brain is still partially active, producing intermittent twitching. Countermeasures: Swaddling and cradling can be used for the first 3-6 months to alleviate the effects of twitching on sleep, and generally this phenomenon heals itself as it grows. In addition, some cases of low blood calcium levels due to vitamin D deficiency are also prone to twitching. The sleep is affected during the period of large motor development and brain development jumps Interpretation: The period of large motor development and brain development jumps involves a lot of memory work, and because rapid eye movement sleep (REM) has the function of storing, organizing and summarizing daytime memories, sleep is affected accordingly. Similar to the daytime work files cluttered on the desktop, at night after work, the machine internal in doing sorting and organizing into various plates. Learn to crawl, learn to sit, learn to stand will interfere with sleep, but because the turning over period is the first relatively large stimulus, so the greatest impact on sleep. Suddenly learn to turn over, as if by mistake out of a maze, this time very excited but also confused about how to get out, will not wait to go back again, again and again to confirm the way to come, this sense of urgency to review the impact on the brain. Countermeasures: So give enough conditions and time to practice during the day, after familiarity with the stimulus is reduced. The bottom of the ability to sleep is also important, the bottom is not easy to collapse in such periods. Sometimes roll over and reverse or sit up and will not lie down, parents can gently help reset, but do not intervene in the transition, not to mention the use of breastfeeding to promote sleep. After recovering from illness, sleep does not return to the previous Interpretation: previously slept well, but after an illness woke up countless times at night, how can you still wake up when you are well? This is a common problem, and similarly, after the mother goes to work or the child goes back home, good sleep is gone. This phenomenon is related to habitual night waking, generally due to the fact that in this because of accidental reasons to wake up, subject to feeding, cuddling and other interventions, and did not adjust back in time, into will actively wake up the habit of solidifying down. The corroboration is that if the parents of an infant who does not wake up at 11:00 a.m. actively feed the infant at 11:00 a.m. for 3 or 4 days in a row, it is possible that the infant will wake up at that time. This suggests that parental behavior is capable of influencing and altering the infant’s sleep. Countermeasure: This fixed pattern will continue for quite a long time. If you look at the root cause of habitual night waking, you will know that this habit does not have a physiological basis that needs to be maintained, so be brave enough to break it and maintain the integrity of your infant’s sleep. Waking up at a fixed time during the night, “waking up to the table” Interpretation: Sometimes you will find that babies wake up at about the same time every day, showing a “waking up to the table” similar to 1:00, 3:00, 5:00. The sleep cycle is about 45-60 minutes, and it is easy to wake up at the end of the cycle, so the interval is often the whole point and a half. In addition, there are also habitual night wakings, where the biological clock cleverly remembers and tracks the previous situation and is likely to do so today. But not all waking up against the clock is habitual night waking, sometimes it is indeed hunger or something like that. Countermeasures: Baby wakes up in the case of ruling out the baby is hungry to soothe the baby back to sleep. Frequent night waking Interpretation: infants have a small stomach capacity, just born may eat a few bites at a time, a meal after 2 hours will be hungry, which is the early frequent night waking physiological factors. As infants grow up, hunger is no longer the dominant factor, especially night waking that is much less than the hunger cycle, which is more likely to be caused by inconsistent sleep environment and habitual night waking. Sleeping and sleeping in an inconsistent environment, the child will be very alert to wake up often to confirm whether the sleep environment has changed, and the sleep will naturally be very light. Countermeasures: Night waking is not the same as hunger. Poop and urine, eczema, hot and cold, stimulation during the day, changing beds, people coming to the house, mom going to work, learning to turn over, teething, and even mosquito bites can all cause night waking, so leave a few seconds to judge. Countermeasures: If the frequent night waking is caused by night milk, reduce the number of night milk in time.