Let your baby fall to sleep!Is this way of sleeping, is it a trick or a pit baby?

The birth of a baby is a moment worth celebrating and joy to others. However, parents who have experienced the personal experience understand that the most emotions in our hearts are besides joy and confusion.

Among the many parenting problems, how to coax children to sleep is one of the bosses.

Some parents think that their babies are a difficulty of sleeping, and they usually have at least half an hour to sleep with their children.

But attentive parents will find that if the baby is put in a baby car and pushing the car and walking, the baby will sleep in seconds!

Why do these babies sleep quickly in a bumpy stroller? Is such a way to sleep well or bad? Let's take a look today.

Why is the baby in a baby car

Obviously bumpy but sleeping quickly?

In contrast to adults, physiology and psychology are completely different.

For a newborn, the following three reasons are mainly to fall asleep in a bumpy stroller.

1. The narrow space allows the baby to find the reference point in the uterus and speed up the relaxed sleep mode

When the baby is still in the mother's uterus, the baby is surrounded by amniotic fluid, and the amniotic membrane wrapped in amniotic fluid is like a balloon filled with water, surrounded by the uterus tightly.

He can touch his face and feet with his hands, and the fluctuation of amniotic fluid when his mother walks around will also make him feel bumpy.

The narrow space and bumpy environment in the uterus, these are more or less similar to the baby's lying in the mobile stroller. The familiar feeling makes it easy for children to relax and accelerate the state of sleep.

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2. Slowly moving stroller will make the baby feel calm and secure

Sally Goddard Blythe, Ph.D. in British Neurology and Neurology, mentioned in his book "The Well Balanced Child"::

Gentle vestibular stimulus helps to make the baby gentle and calm, and let the child enter sleep faster.

This is not difficult to understand, just like when the baby is irritable, the mother instinctively holds him in her arms, gently swaying and comforting.

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There were also cradle and rocking chairs in the previous baby room, which shows that the gentle vestibular stimulus can soothe the baby and make them more calm.

Many of the lullays we often listen to are also following the rhythm of the four or four shots, which makes people can't help but shake the baby gently.

The movement of the baby in the stroller is very similar to this gentle swing, making it easier for the baby to enter the sleep state.

3. The stroller reduces unnecessary interference, making it easier to sleep

There is also an undeniable point that when the external stimulus becomes less and the light becomes darker, we are more likely to enter the state of sleep.

The stroller provides a relatively semi -closed environment, and also reduces artificial interference.

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When the child feels boring, many babies will yawn themselves, put their small hands in their mouths, and soothe themselves, and quickly enter the dreamland.

Since the baby can sleep in the stroller, we let the baby sleep in the baby car every time, can we sleep faster?

Cycling to sleep is equivalent to constructing sleep association

Long -term use may hurt the baby

Although it is easier to make your baby fall asleep, there is no big problem to sleep in the stroller. However, if this is done for a long time, it may cause sleep association, which is not conducive to the development of the correct sleep mode.

1. The habit of sleeping in the car is to use sleep to coax the baby to sleep

Everyone's sleep has a sleep cycle:

People's normal sleep structure cycles are divided into two times: non -fast eye movement sleep period (NREM) and fast eye movement sleep period (Rem).

NREM and Rem appear alternately, alternately called a sleep cycle, two cycles are reciprocating, usually 4 to 5 sleep cycles per night, 90 to 110 minutes per cycle.

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Babies have a longer sleep time and shorter cycles than adults, which is why they are more likely to wake up.

If your baby is used to being taken care of and sleeping, (that is, being held, shaken, feeding, and touched), then after the child's sleep cycle is over (usually after the rapid eye movement period), he will wake up, and then hopes that in the environment With the same care, you can fall asleep again.

This sleeping environment is the key to falling asleep again after the child wakes up.

On the contrary, if you put your baby in the cradle or crib, he falls asleep by himself, then he will learn to continue to accept it by himself after waking up.

2. The way to sleep for a long time, it is easy to establish incorrect sleep associations

From this perspective, the way to sleep for a long time may not be conducive to the establishment of a correct sleep attitude.

Because he had almost no chance to learn to soothe himself, but he needed to rely on shaking strollers.

It is worth noting that this is not to say that we throw the baby on the bed and let him cry in despair.

Children first need to go through a stage of taking care of falling asleep, such as gentle touch and gentle conversation.

Parents' positive response during infants will allow their children to trust the world and help them believe that they can sleep safely in this new environment.

Therefore, when the child goes through the stage of being taken care of asleep, he can gradually enter the stage of falling asleep naturally. Three steps to establish a healthy sleep association

Cultivate your baby to fall asleep independently

Every child needs to learn the ability to fall asleep through his own experience.

At the beginning, they could not distinguish between day and night, and they did not know how to soothe themselves to calm themselves. They needed parents to help their babies by creating a correct environment.

Parents can do the following three steps to establish a healthy sleep association and cultivate the baby to fall asleep independently:

1. Observe and capture the child's sleep signal in time

Children will develop their own sleep signals, such as::

a.

b. Rub your eyes

c. Eat hands

d.

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When we observe the children's sleep signals, provide the child with a quiet environment in time, pull the curtains, and take him to the bed in the bedroom to help the child think of sleep and bed.

Over time, the child will understand that the bed can be used to sleep. When I am tired, I can come here to rest.

This has established a natural and healthy sleep association. Once this habit is developed, the ability of subsequent children to fall asleep and consciousness will be improved rapidly.

2. Hold -Pats -Flowing Follow the Sequence, guiding the baby to fall asleep by himself

In order to allow children to sleep better, it is recommended to use three steps to be guided by three steps.

◾ Hug the child

In the early days of the baby, we can hold the baby and communicate with your baby in a way full of information:

a. Your sleeping time is about to pull, I want to change your diaper before you go to bed.

b. You seem to be a little tired and you can fall asleep soon.

Such a way of communication will let children know what will happen next, and he can quickly form his sleeping habit.

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Put your child on the bed and accompany the child's gentle and gently, which can make the child feel safe and comfortable.

From holding our children, we gradually advanced to just patting the children, and the distance was far away, but we will leave more space for children to learn to fall asleep.

◾ Put down the child

When the child is awake, we will put him on the bed, instead of waiting for them to fall asleep completely.

This truth is the same as our adult falling asleep. Imagine that you fell asleep on the bed. I opened my eyes and saw that it was in another place. Isn't it the environment that I just fell asleep? Will it suddenly wake up?

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Therefore, we have to put him down from the state where the child is about to fall asleep and let the child familiarize the environment of sleep. This method provides great possibilities for the child to wake up.

3. Create a stable schedule and environment

We must also try to create a relatively stable work and rest environment for the baby. The external order will bring an internal sense of security and accelerate the baby's falling asleep.

In the early stages of infants and young children, the regular work and rest habits mainly dedicated to their parents. We can observe the child's sleep time, and actively discover the law of children's sleep.

When we let the baby prepare before going to bed, lying comfortably on the bed, we put our hands gently on the child, and said to the child peacefully and confidently: Baby, take a good rest!

Children will feel our calmness and trust through our hands, and the baby will feel the real harmony of our hearts and enter the dream town sweetly.

references

[1] American Sleep Medicine (AASM), Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine "Clinical Sleep Medicine Journal"

Experts in this article

Wang Meiyao

Cooperative expert

National Secondary Psychological Counselor

More than ten years of experience in children and family education

Zhu Xiaojie

Review expert

IMPI Maternal and Child Sleep Council

HAPPIEST BABY certified baby instructor

Plan

Planning: Ai Tongmu

Title Source: Standing Cool Hero

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