Sleep is very crucial for babies in the growth and development stage, a good quality of sleep can not only promote the secretion of growth hormones, but also help babies to enhance memory, creativity and so on. However, parents often do some things that affect the quality of baby’s sleep and hinder the growth and development of the baby. How to let your baby have a good quality sleep? You need to avoid the following mistakes! Mistake #1: Keeping the baby’s room completely quiet It is easy for moms to make the mistake of keeping the room completely silent in a family with a new baby. Thinking that this way the baby sleeps peacefully, but almost all newborns like to sleep with a little sound, because the baby will hear the sound of amniotic fluid while in the mother’s tummy instead of being completely quiet. The right thing to do: Some sounds will bring comfort and familiarity to your baby because they have been hearing similar sounds when they were still in their mother’s tummy. In addition, this subtle noise can also reduce the impact of other noises in the house on the baby’s sleep. There is also some white noise music on the Internet, such as the sound of waves and wind, or can make your baby sleep better. Mistake 2: Waking up a sleeping baby for milk During the first few weeks of life, babies eat every 2 to 3 hours. This is to ensure that your baby’s weight gain is normal. But at night, if your baby is asleep and doesn’t wake up, you don’t have to wake him up to breastfeed. The right thing to do: As long as your baby is sleeping at night, don’t take the initiative to wake him up to have milk, your baby will tell you by crying when he is hungry or wet. Mistake 3: rocking your baby to sleep When your baby cries and doesn’t want to sleep, some anxious mothers tend to pick up their babies and rock them, or put them in a bassinet and rock them around. In fact, there is a potential danger in going to sleep this way. Because the brain of a small baby is not yet fully developed, shaking will make the baby’s brain constantly shaking in the skull, causing small blood vessels in the brain to rupture and intracranial bleeding. Even if the above does not happen, it will make your baby develop the bad habit of not being able to sleep without shaking. The right way: put the baby on the crib, cuddle and pat the baby, hum some lullabies, the baby soon fell asleep. Mistake 4: Eating more food before bed Some mothers think that adding some rice flour to the bottle will help their babies to eat more to sleep, but this is a big mistake. There is no direct evidence that cereals help babies sleep, so there is no need to do so. In fact, adding rice flour to the bottle will increase your baby’s calorie intake. Eating more before bedtime, on the contrary, is not good for your baby’s health because the stomach and intestines do not get rest, leading to gastrointestinal dysfunction and causing bloating. Babies also do not sleep well. The right approach: some babies drink a bottle of milk before bedtime, and these are enough. Mistake 5: Skipping bedtime procedures You may think that babies should be sleepy, there is no need to have such a fixed procedure to do, the baby sleeps just as well. However, with a fixed ritual, your baby will sleep more peacefully and fall asleep faster. If you break your baby’s pre-sleep routine for special reasons, your baby will not be able to sleep for a long time. The right approach: It is best for your baby to establish a bedtime routine, such as taking a bath before bedtime, drinking a bottle of milk, listening to a lullaby or a story, or holding a stuffed animal. With these routines, your baby will calm down and fall asleep quickly. Make sure this series of relaxation steps happens in the same order and at approximately the same time each night. Mistake 6: Sleeping with the lights on Adults may think that sleeping with the lights on does not scare babies, but mothers need to be reminded that babies understand darkness, not fear, and that fear of the dark may be something we impose on them. Sleep with the lights on is very bad for the baby, because his optic nerve system is not yet in the developmental stage, the ability to adapt to changes in the environment of the body regulation is poor, if the bedroom with the lights on, will change the baby to distinguish between the natural laws of day and night, resulting in a shorter sleep time, affecting the normal metabolism. At the same time will also affect the baby’s vision development, the probability of future myopia to higher than the baby sleep with the lights off. The right approach: when the baby sleeps, it is best to pull the curtains, close the bright lights, but you can put a dimmable night light at the head of the bed, dim environment, so that the baby has a drowsy state. Turn it off when the baby falls asleep, and once the baby wakes up during the night, the mother can always turn on the night light. Mistake 7: Going to bed too late When you come home after a long day at work, you may be willing to spend more time with him. Or maybe you want him to get tired of playing and eventually fall asleep on his own. Whatever the reason, this is not a good idea. When your baby is exhausted, you may find it hard for him to fall asleep and he may cry and fuss because he can’t sleep. The right thing to do: Have a bedtime routine and stick to it. Don’t wait until your baby yawns and rubs his eyes to remember that he is sleepy and needs to sleep. It’s best to have a set bedtime at night, such as 9 p.m., so that his biological clock has a routine to follow. Mistake 8: Over-stimulation before bedtime At night, if your baby is still playing with spinning toys, sound and light toys, and watching cartoons, your baby is likely to be too excited to play and have trouble falling asleep. The correct approach: at night if the baby wants to play with toys, but also play some quiet toys, such as blocks, Muppets, etc., cartoons as far as possible before going to sleep do not watch. Quiet environment is conducive to the baby as soon as possible to enter the state of bedtime. Myth 9: inconsistent sleep location Three- and four-year-old babies are sometimes clingy and will ask to sleep in their parents’ bed, you may have a soft heart and let the baby fall asleep in your bed. But this situation will make your baby always want to sleep in your bed, if you do not agree, he will throw a tantrum until you agree, at this age he can not understand why sometimes you let him sleep in his own bed, and sometimes agree to him to stay. The right thing to do: If your baby asks to sleep with you, tell him that he can only sleep well in his own bed. When you let your baby sleep in his own bed, you can sit with him in front of his bed and read a story to him until he falls asleep, then leave his room.