If you want your baby to sleep well, sleep habits need to be developed from an early age!

Your baby’s nighttime sleep consists of several cycles of alternating light and deep sleep, with short periods of wakefulness between cycles. Most of the time, your baby learns to fall back to sleep on his/her own, and mom and dad experience a clean night with no disturbances. If your baby has developed a habit of going back to sleep at night with a bottle, rocking, etc., she/he will need you to do the same in the middle of the night to move on to the next sleep cycle. Therefore, for the sake of your baby’s healthy growth, please parents with small children should consciously cultivate their babies’ habit of falling asleep on their own after their children are 3 months old. Some parents have asked: can this be done? The existence of the sleep cycle also explains a lot of reasons such as not being able to fall asleep at night without night feeding and often waking up at night, so it turns out that babies develop the habit of needing sleeping conditions from the outside world to accompany them. What can be done? We can only help the child to remove the outside sleeping conditions. Methods: The whole family should agree to use the gradual elimination method, and insist on it again and again. Sleep is affected by light and physical activity, from the little baby through the daytime outdoor activities, feel the light, the night sleep to give the dark environment, can help the little baby faster to establish the day and night rhythms, to help the cultivation of night sleep. Some moms and dads are concerned about how much sleep is appropriate for their babies? The following chart is very intuitive: the younger the age, the greater the difference. Newborn babies because the sleep center development is not mature, sleep time from 9 hours to 19 hours range Oh. By the time they reach school age, the difference is not so great. Each child has his own temperament characteristics, as long as he does not have a big change in a period of time, the child’s emotional and physical state are not abnormal, parents do not need to worry. Parenting, parents should be full of love and patience, give children the freedom to grow up in the environment, but also have a certain degree of discipline, the establishment of good sleep habits is crucial. It is important to establish good sleep habits, such as a suitable and stable environment, a routine for bedtime preparation, predictable sleep, and a regular sleep schedule, etc. You can read the following pictures carefully. Scientific research has found that in the non-REM sleep phase, there is a period of time will be secreted growth hormone, which is related to the growth of Oh, so it makes sense to sleep well and grow taller. In addition, REM sleep phase of the brain is quite active, why is it, may be integrating the daytime learned, experienced, to help the formation of long-term memory Oh, this is not related to the child’s learning memory. Some people may want to ask, how do we people know what is non-REM sleep phase, what is REM sleep ah, sharp-eyed parents have learned from the second chart. In short, the first half of the night is related to growth, and the second half of the night is related to learning and memory.