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It is not advisable to feed rice paste at night from April to June.
Sleepiness of newborn babies is a problem that almost all parents have faced. In order to let children sleep until dawn, some parents will feed their children rice paste at night to reduce the number of times they wake up at night.
Why feeding children rice paste can reduce the baby waking up at night? This is mainly because the density of rice paste is relatively high, and it takes a long time for the baby to empty his stomach after eating high-density food, so it is not easy to wake up because of defecation discomfort.
However, maternal and child experts do not agree with this practice. "Children from 4 to 6 months ago should not eat rice paste, because although rice paste has high texture density, its nutritional value is relatively low, which can't really meet the nutritional needs of infants and young children and the needs of rapid growth and development." Zhang Shuying, deputy chief physician of neonatology department of Nanning Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said.
It is not advisable to overeat before going to bed.
In addition, feeding children too much before going to bed is also one of the ways for many parents to let their children sleep well at night. But maternal and child experts do not agree with this. Overfeeding can easily lead to accidents such as babies choking on milk.
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It is normal for a baby to sleep "uneasily"
So, why do children often wake up when they sleep, and how can we reduce the number of times they wake up at night?
"Some parents are often troubled by their children's crying after waking up at night, in fact, because they don't understand their sleep characteristics." Zhang Shuying said. Generally speaking, the disturbing factors of infants' sleep include: urinating about 10 times a day and defecating about 4~6 times. The defecation time is day and night, and any factors that may cause discomfort to the baby may wake the baby.
In addition, because the baby's stomach capacity is small, the frequency of breastfeeding is relatively high. Generally, the cycle of breast-feeding is once every 2 to 3 hours, 8 to 12 times a day. These factors that "interfere" the baby's sleep belong to the self-interference of physiological needs.
"Many parents will find that they fall asleep after shaking their baby, but they gently put the baby on the bed and wake up as soon as his head touches the bed. Many parents think that this is because their children don't sleep well, but it is not. " Wu Baoning, director of the Children's Health Department of Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said that this situation is mainly due to the fact that infants' sleep patterns are different from those of adults-mainly shallow sleep.
When parents try to let go of the baby who has fallen asleep, the baby who is still in a light sleep state can easily wake up. At this time, parents only need to hold their children for a long time, and then put them on the bed after they fall into a deep sleep, so as not to wake them up.
In addition, infants and adults have different sleep patterns. The sleep cycle of infants is 40-50 minutes, while that of adults is 90 minutes. However, because the baby's sleep development is not perfect, it is easy to wake up before entering the next sleep cycle, which will disturb adults to sleep at night.
Wu Baoning said that for a few months old baby, its sleep mode can be summarized as: deep sleep-shallow sleep-sleepy state-quiet awakening-awakening. Quiet awakening is the transition state of infants from sleep to awakening. When the baby is in a quiet and awake state, sometimes his mouth will move, he will laugh, or his hands and feet will move. At this time, many parents will think that the child is awake and that the child is in a bad sleep state. In fact, this is the natural reaction of the baby's special sleep mode. As long as the parents calm down a little and pat the child while holding it, the child will enter the next sleep cycle in ten minutes.
"After learning that the child has a special sleep mode, parents should change the behavior of feeding the child when they see the child crying or urinating, and pat or touch the child's back instead to let the child enter the next sleep cycle as soon as possible."
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Regular sleep rhythm is established at 1 year.
Zhang Shuying said that when babies are born, they sleep for about 20 hours a day, but as they get older, they sleep less and less. 0~3 months is the stage when children's sleep habits are gradually established and formed. If children sleep more during the day and less at night, they can adjust their sleep habits appropriately by waking up.
"When children grow to 1 year, they should establish a regular sleep rhythm and gradually develop in a mature direction." Wu Baoning said that if children have not developed the rule of sleeping at night and waking up by day after 1 year old, they still wake up at night and can't sleep all night, which is a kind of sleep disorder. Wu Baoning said that besides waking up at night, snoring, dreaming, grinding teeth and difficulty falling asleep are all sleep disorders.
Eliminate other factors that interfere with children's sleep.
Zhang Shuying said that for the baby before 1 month, it is best for the mother to sleep with the baby, so that the baby can relive the sense of security when in the mother's belly, which is also more conducive to keeping the child warm when sleeping and preventing the child from catching cold when kicking the quilt.
For children aged 6 months to 1 year, parents should start to cultivate the habit of sleeping twice a day. Wu Baoning said that children's first sleep can generally start after lunch and wake up at 3-4 pm, because if children sleep until 5-6 pm for the first time, it will affect the quality of their second sleep at night.
Both Zhang Shuying and Wu Baoning said that giving children a warm bath before going to bed, proper massage, listening to some soothing music, or letting children do proper exercise, such as swimming and touching, are all good ways to make their sleep more stable. In addition, parents should also pay attention to supplement their children with vitamin D on time. "/kloc-children of 0/4 days can be supplemented with vitamin D, which is to prevent children from getting rickets." Zhang Shuying said that children with rickets often have difficulty sleeping.
"Parents should carefully analyze the causes of children's restless sleep and take corresponding measures for different reasons." Wu Baoning said that sleeping environment, such as air, temperature and clothes, may affect children's sleep. Parents should pay attention to whether the child's indoor temperature is too high or too low, and whether the child is wrapped too tightly.
To ensure the baby's stable and lasting sleep, the position when sleeping is also very important. Zhang Shuying said that if the child is allowed to sleep on his back, it is best to raise his upper body by 30~45 degrees, or let the child sleep on his side, so as to prevent the child who has just finished eating milk from sucking the milk stuck in his throat because of back suction.
Why do some children sleep till dawn, and some children often cry at night? Wu Baoning said that when a baby who is a few months old has sleep disorders, it is necessary to carefully find out the reasons and eliminate the factors that interfere with the child's sleep in time. However, if the cause cannot be found, and the child has no abnormal symptoms such as fever and eczema, it may be related to the temperament of each baby. "Just like people's personalities are different, some children are easy to raise, some children are more difficult to raise, some children are cheerful from childhood, and some children are more difficult to get along with. These differences are related to heredity. "
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