The child has a late afternoon nap. Baby sleep

Daytime sleep often becomes a real problem in the family, especially in the one where the child is already old enough to say his definitive “fairy” to this form of execution above himself. It would seem that all that is needed to achieve peace and harmony is to allow the baby, who does not bother to sleep the extra two or three hours, not to sleep, but, as experts say, everything is far from so simple.

According to pediatricians, daytime sleep for children under the age of seven is a vital necessity.  And no less. Firstly, this type of daytime rest promotes concentration of attention, which, in turn, facilitates the process of obtaining and digesting information received in a curious children's body; secondly, it also enhances the protective properties of the child's body. Just to such heights at which no infection can get it. Thirdly, children's sleep helps the overworked baby to cope with all the stresses and irritations received during the day, which are inevitable companions of the difficult process of growing up.

So, the child still needs to sleep during the day. But what if he does not want to hear anything about it. Pediatricians advise in this case to carefully monitor the child. It is possible that daytime hyperactivity or fever interferes with his sleep. In this regard, here are some tips on how to establish a strong and positive childhood dream from all sides:

The first rule isthat a child’s room should by no means be cluttered with carpets, soft toys, upholstered furniture, in short, because it catches so well, but so poorly gives off dust;

The second rule saysthat a lot of wet cleaning does not happen. Having performed it at least once a day, you increase the chances of your baby to grow into a healthy person who is not burdened with lung diseases;

The temperature in the room should not be higher than 18-20 degrees. And this is the third rule;

The fourth rule isthat it is better to dress a child warmer than to turn on heating devices in his room;

Fifth rule  categorically forbids starting active games before going to bed. Leave them for later, so before evening sleep, your strength will end sooner;

Having developed a daily regimen for your child, reads sixth rule, it is necessary to stick to it in the future. By all means, so to speak.

By the way, in children of different age categories it takes a different time to sleep. So, in order for a child to fall asleep one and a half - three years, it takes about an hour, preschool children from four to six years - about half an hour. Therefore, if your happiness can not heal in any way, it creeps all the time from one place to another, do not be nervous. Be patient, dim the light in his room, put an audio recording of your favorite fairy tale and wait. Sooner or later, the child will not stand and will fall asleep.

From the fact that sleep is important, only one thing can be done as a conclusion: there can be no small things here. This rule is especially true in cases where it applies to children under the age of one year. Experts say that if parents want their child to develop correctly (and they definitely want to), you should pay attention to the pose in which the child is sleeping.

Back in the 90s of the last century, studies were conducted that established the relationship between a child’s sleep on his stomach and the frequency of cases of the so-called sudden infant mortality syndrome (SIDS). To this day, doctors have not been able to fully explain what SIDS is, what explains it and how to deal with it, however, they are able to say that sleeping on the stomach increases the risk of this mysterious and very tragic child death. Therefore, experts advise putting the child on his back or on the side for the night, and during the day when you can track the child, put him on his stomach. If you combine these poses in this order, the newborn baby will not only be able to get enough sleep, but also actively work in his sleep on the correct formation of his muscles.

An older child, not subject, thank God, to the syndrome of sudden infant mortality, is even quite capable of deciding in which position he should sleep. The main thing is that nothing disturbed him from sleeping.

Olga Minskaya
   journalist of the portal "103.by»

A child’s daytime sleep, especially up to a year, is an undoubted benefit for both the child and his mother. When the baby falls asleep, the mother has a few hours to clean, cook, wash and a couple of minutes to rest. In the evening, I don’t want to do household chores, so women try to redo all things during the daytime sleep of the child. But even in moments of solitude and tranquility, mom remains a mom. And he continues to worry about everything. But how many children sleep in the afternoon? What if he sleeps a lot? But does a child need a daytime sleep at all, will he not affect his sleep at night? We are in a hurry to answer all questions related to the child’s sleep in the daytime.

How much should a child sleep during the day?

To begin with, the word “should” is inappropriate here. The child owes nothing to anyone. There are two concepts here: I want to sleep and I do not want. But whether a child wants to sleep during the day or not depends on his lifestyle, environment and parents.

With newborns under 1 month in this matter is easier. In the first month of life, the baby sleeps almost all the time, usually waking up only to eat. And again sent to the world of dreams. This is the norm, it should be so.

For all subsequent months, too, has its own norm. The following is a table of baby's daytime sleep. It is worth noting that the table shows the average indicators for the daytime sleep of the child. This means that during the day the baby can sleep a little more or a little less than the specified time - this is within the normal range. However, the above table will be very useful, as it will tell mom how much the child should sleep during the day.

Monthly baby sleep

Child's age	Number of times of daytime sleep	Baby’s daytime sleep hours
0 months	almost continuously, with food breaks	around 9
1 month	3–4	9
2 months	3	8
3 months	3	6
4 months	3	6
5 months	2–3	5
6 months	2	4
7 months	2	4
8 months	2	4
9 months	2	4
10 months	2	4
11 months	2	3
1 year (12 months)	1–2	3
1,5 years	1	2
2 years	1	2
3 years	1	2

At three years old, most children go to kindergarten. And, according to the daily routine, they sleep about two hours daily. In this mode, children live right up to school, that is, up to 6-7 years.

What to do if the child does not want to sleep during the day?

1. Do not force.

Daytime sleep should not be taken as punishment. If the child refuses to sleep, in no case do not punish and do not scold the baby. Don't get hysterical. This will give the opposite effect, the child is nervous and will not be able to fall asleep.

1. Create an enabling environment for daytime sleep.

It's about the room where the baby sleeps. It should not be hot, stuffy or too dry. The optimum temperature is 18–22 ° С, air humidity is about 50–70%.

1. Increase physical activity.

If the child does not want to sleep, then he is not tired. Believe me, if the baby leads an active lifestyle, spends a lot of time in the fresh air, eats properly - during the day he will fall asleep by himself, without the vagaries and persuasion.

1. Calm atmosphere.

An overexcited baby is difficult to calm down and fall asleep. Therefore, before going to bed, spend some time in peace and quiet. Read books, draw.

1. Rituals.

Develop your bedtime traditions. For example, a mother can read a book or sing a lullaby. So, over time, the child will perceive these rituals as a signal "time to sleep."

1. Daily regime.

Try to adhere to a specific regime of the day. For example, at noon you and your child have lunch and after 30 minutes go to bed. The baby’s body will eventually get used to this daily routine. And the departure to daytime sleep will take place calmly and by mutual agreement.

In conclusion, I would like to answer the question whether the child needs daytime sleep or not. Yes I need it. Children's daytime sleep is the key to good development: both physical and mental. The children's body is not able to stay awake all day. He needs a rest. And a better rest than a full day's sleep is hard to come up with. Therefore, the task of parents is not just to lay the baby, but to organize the child’s sleep so that the child himself wants to sleep in the busy hours of the day.

Tale, try not to settle it, most likely it's just a feeling of contradiction and it will be cut down almost on the go. If you use a stroller, can you roll it on the street? My baby immediately wants to eat, drink, write and play right before a night's sleep. And during the day he does not sleep at all, he is 2 years old. He sits quietly in the crib in the kindergarten, and on weekends we just slow down by an hour or two (we read the book, play quietly).

02/10/2012 20:45

  Russia, Vargashi

Good day to everyone! Please tell me what to do. We have the following situation: recently, a child refuses to fall asleep during the day. Previously, everything was beautiful, we lay down, I stroked his head and everything, we sleep sweetly and snooze. And now there are just terrible actions. He understands that we’ll be laying right now and starting to rush around the house, screaming, screaming, there is immediately a terrible need to play with all the toys. In general, he does not respond to my actions and persuasion to go to bed (with me). And the face shows that he wants to sleep. And so it comes to a roar. I must also say that we walk for 2.5 hours and in any weather, I try to move along the maximum along the walk. In general, what should we do until we get enough sleep. We suffer from this together, now he is sleeping and sobbing in a dream, and my heart is bleeding and the roar itself is bleeding. Tell me, pliz, what should we do in such a situation. We are a year and 5.

17/11/2011 20:02

  Moldova, Balti

my son is 9 months old, he goes to bed at 21-21: 30, wakes up at 00_00 or at 01_00 and sleeps until 6 in the morning .... wakes up at 6 in the morning and no longer sleeps until 8 ... please tell me, is this normal? I honestly want something to sleep at least until 7_30-8_00

18/12/2009 12:07

Good afternoon, My granddaughter Ani (1 year and 10 months) does not have a regular sleep, Her mother is tormented, plays at night in the dark, and in the afternoon sleep of different durations, There is no regularity and regularity, Outwardly the granddaughter looks healthy, her appetite is good, Almost not acting up
  Question: What is the mistake? What to examine? How to help?

13/11/2009 19:31

Unfortunately, I can not agree with the doctor. As a rule, if you wake the child up during the day, when he has not yet had enough sleep, he will be tearful, irritable all evening. I would not experiment like that. It’s better to put the child to bed early in the afternoon, so that between 6 and 7 hours pass between daytime and evening sleep. If your child gets up so early, he can be fed 7-8 hours with breakfast, at 12 o’clock in the afternoon, put to sleep in the afternoon at half past one, an hour, he wakes up no later than 3, then at 10 pm he will most likely fall asleep without much problems.

Raising a mentally and physically healthy baby is the desire of every mother.

The correct arrangement of the regime of the day lays half the success in the upbringing and development of the baby. A child’s daytime sleep at 1 year is at a critical stage.

Your goal is to effectively organize periods of rest and wakefulness, given the importance and norms of daytime dreams. If you are experiencing difficulties in laying, then I recommend listening to a series of 3 video tutorials on how to establish a quiet sleep of a child.

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Secrets of a child's behavior in 1 year

Your child by the year will truly make a great leap in its development. Before us is no longer a tiny screaming lump, but a little man who knows how to move around the apartment, speaks about 10 specific words and understands well the speech addressed to him.

Most likely, your baby is very active in a year.

• He already walks confidently enough or tunes in at his first step, and maybe still crawls like a meteor. And you can find out when the child begins to walk confidently from an article on the site: When does the child begin to walk? \u003e\u003e\u003e;
• But all children, at this age, are united by indefatigable dynamism, inexhaustible curiosity and desperate independence.

Since the one-year period is characterized by instability, it is unambiguous to answer the question: how many dreams does a child have in 1 year is very difficult. The situation with each specific baby develops purely individually. Your baby can continue to sleep, as 2 times a day, and go on one afternoon rest.

The Importance of Sleep

Your baby at an early age develops very actively. During the day, he gains a ton of new experiences with which the child's psyche does not cope. To restore strength and emotional resources? your baby must have a rest during the day.

A child’s sleep consists of cycles, which? in turn? conditionally subdivided into phases:

1. deep sleep;
2. rapid eye movement (BDG).

During the day, the proportion of different stages of sleep changes ^

• In the morning, the percentage of the phase of the BDG is high. It allows your baby to relax emotionally and psychologically, and is also important for the mental development of the child;
• Afternoon sleep consists mainly of deep phases. Such rest favorably affects the growth and physical development of the crumbs;

In order for the baby to fully grow and develop, your main task is the correct organization of the child’s daytime sleep at 1 year old, which must obey two basic principles:

1. to put the baby in a time appropriate to his age (also read the current article: What time to put the child to bed? \u003e\u003e\u003e);
2. avoid overwork crumbs.

If you missed or shifted your sleep time, do not try to force the baby to be laid. Remember that the amount of rest does not always determine its quality. When a child sleeps in the wrong hours, this is unlikely to bring him proper recovery of strength.

Norms of sleep in 1 year

Theoretically, the baby’s sleep norm at 1 year is about 12 - 13 hours a day. 10 hours at night and 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon.

The period of one year is a turning point in the life of the child, when he goes to 1 sleep during the day or while he can sleep 2 times, but will be preparing for the transition to one day's rest.

Know!  In rare cases, regime restructuring is quick and painless. You need to be prepared for the fact that the installation of a new schedule of daytime sleep can take several months. This means that at first the baby sleeps 2, then 1 time per day.

Refusal of day dreams

If a child categorically refuses daytime dreams, then the cause may be illnesses, long-distance trips, holidays, generally disturbed daily routines, and other life circumstances. To get started, try to determine the origin of the problem.

If you put your baby late, then, of course, he sleeps for a long time in the morning and it will be difficult for him to fall asleep during the day.

When this pattern is repeated day after day, the child accumulates overwork. The child’s body actively fights fatigue and produces even more cheerfulness hormone, which interferes with quality daytime rest of the crumbs. There is a way out of this situation:

• early bedtime from 18.00 to 19.00;
• development of a clear ritual of going to bed. You can read more about this in the article Rituals before bedtime \u003e\u003e\u003e.

Try to put the baby to sleep for about 18-30 for several days in a row. This will lead to an early morning rise and it will be easier for you to put him to bedtime. Get closer to the optimal schedule.

When a baby is disturbed in sleep at 1 year, a frequent source of complication is the lack of a consistent ritual before resting.

Walking in the fresh air, relaxing games, light massage, water treatments, darkening the room, silence, music - all this will help your little one to relax and tune into a quiet hour.

The child falls asleep hard - what to do?

The main secret of your baby’s good sleep is the correct distribution of his waking periods. The biological days of a one-year-old baby are set to a 24-hour format.

In the detailed online course on establishing children's sleep, we analyze all the subtleties of building a competent regime of the day.

You can:

1. Get rid of prolonged laying;
2. Reduce the time that a child falls asleep to 10 minutes;
3. To teach a child to fall asleep on his own.

Cribs, printouts, materials for keeping a baby's sleep diary - all this you will get on the course How to teach a child to fall asleep and sleep without a chest, night awakenings and motion sickness \u003e\u003e\u003e.

• A child’s daytime sleep of 1, 5 years should be from 2 to 3 hours once a day;
• Lay the crumbs no later than 13.00;
• Try to teach your baby to sleep on his own. To do this, use the usual techniques and, it is better if the child will always lay one person.

If you tried everything, but don’t see the result, you can sign up for a sleep course or an individual consultation. To do this, leave a request for consultation in the feedback form.

I wish you good nights and good relations with your child!

When a small lump of happiness is handed to young parents in the maternity hospital, the instructions for caring for the baby would not hurt the newly minted mom and dad. And if hygiene and feeding issues are popularly explained by the neonatologist's memo, then you will have to deal with the organization of sleep yourself.

Encyclopedias for parents also do not provide complete information about the organization of children's sleep. As a rule, a very small section is devoted to this issue in the literature. All information boils down to the fact that a child’s daytime sleep in the first months of life is expected to be long. According to the book scenario, the baby should eat and immediately fall asleep. But practice shows that little ones do not really want to obey book rules: they fall asleep when they have to or do not sleep at all.

The task of each parent is to help their baby by determining the optimal time for daytime sleep of the child. The most important thing is to understand when the baby wants to sleep the most and put him to rest in this period of time. Information on the stages of the biological development of our cub will allow us to give the parental "guesses" a scientific justification.

Of course, each child - individuality and rules for sleep, he will have his own. But for babies of the same age, it is easy to identify similarities in the formation of biorhythms, on the basis of which the basic principles of organizing a child’s daytime sleep can be identified.

Why is daytime sleep so important for every child?

A child’s daytime sleep is not only a great opportunity for parents to take a break from activities and games with a crumb, but a vital necessity for the correct development of the baby and the process of cognition.

Day and night sleep are not dependent on each other. Each type of relaxation has its own rhythm and its own functions. Up to 4 months, night sleep is formed, and after the baby's biorhythms are harmonized with daytime sleep. Each daytime dream has a role and is different from the rest. Therefore, one of the important tasks is their correct distribution throughout the day.

The sleep of every living organism is cyclical. For a child older than 4 months, the sleep cycle lasts from 40 to 60 minutes. During this time, the baby goes through three phases of sleep, varying in depth, as well as a phase of rapid eye movement, in which he sees dreams.

Depending on the time of day, the quantitative ratio of phases in each sleep cycle in a child is different. In the first half of the day, the proportion of the dream phase is higher, which allows the baby to recover emotionally and psychologically, and contributes to cognitive development. When the baby sleeps in the afternoon, deep sleep prevails. At this time, the child is freed from physical fatigue and grows.

Knowledge of sleep allows us to draw certain conclusions:

• It is necessary to put the baby to bed at the right time for his age. Was one of the daytime dreams missing or broken? Do not try to organize it at the wrong time. This will bring down the rest of the dreams and lead to a deterioration in their quality. The duration of sleep is not equivalent to its quality, so rest at the wrong time will not bring benefits;

• It is important to prevent overwork of the baby. Fatigue disturbs the phase relation of sleep and worsens its quality. If the dream was missed or was of insufficient quality, put the baby to sleep in the next period of sleep a little earlier. This tactic allows you to not violate the frequency of sleep and does not allow the peanut to overwork.

How do children at different ages sleep?

In the first four months of a baby’s life, dealing with daytime sleep organization is a snap. The structure of sleep is not yet formed. All that your baby needs during this period is breathing, eating and sleeping. If the baby has a dry diaper, he is not cold and not hungry, but cries loudly, then it's time to relax.

The length of daytime sleep of a child of this age can vary from 30 minutes to 4 hours. The baby falls asleep every 1-2 hours. Remember that the baby can not always fall asleep on his own, he may need help to relax and go into sleep. Our task during this period is to provide the baby with the necessary rest on time.

With age, sleep patterns become more predictable. In the period from 4 to 6 months, biorhythms are converted to a 24-hour format. The number of dreams during the day is reduced: at 4-6 months, most babies sleep 2-3 times, from 6 months - 2 times. A child's sleep at 1 year is most often needed 2 times a day. If the parents are not sure when to transfer the child to one day's sleep, then, on average, the optimal period is 15-18 months.

To determine the most suitable time for a child’s daytime sleep, scientists investigated the dependence of changes in body temperature and the level of hormones produced, which are responsible for the state of sleep and wakefulness (melatonin and cortisol), on the time of day.

After 4 months, morning sleep first develops. The optimal time for its onset falls in the interval from 8 to 10 in the morning. Taking into account that the natural time of the beginning of the day for children after 4 months is in the range of 5.30 - 7 in the morning, you can vary the time of falling asleep, focusing on the degree of fatigue of the crumbs, but do not go beyond the recommended interval.

The second dream will be formed a little later - about 6 months from the birth of the child. The optimal time of its onset will fall in the period from 12:00 to 14:00.

An evening dream is usually superficial and short-lived. Filled with emotions and physical activity, the baby can feel different. The task of parents is not to let the child overwork and reduce their wakefulness, depending on the well-being of their crumbs. It is best to organize evening vacations between 14.00 and 16.30. It is important that the evening sleep ends before 17.00. This will allow timely night sleep, which is so important for preparing for the next day.

Daytime sleep of a child up to a year and even up to 15 months should not occur at the request of the parents, but depending on the biological needs of the baby. Follow a clear schedule does not work. The daily routine will constantly change and reflect the important stages of the formation of the child.

Only by 15-18 months a more or less clear schedule will be formed with one sleep. Then a day rest is recommended to be appointed between 12.00 and 14.00. If you put the baby later, the departure to the night's sleep may be delayed or its duration may decrease.

Starting from 4 months, it is important that the duration of each episode of sleep was at least 1 hour. Such rest will allow the child to recuperate and fully awake until the next period of sleep. Adequate sleep duration depends on proper selection of bedtime and quality of night rest.

Principles of formation of the child's daytime sleep

Based on the above, we can highlight the general principles of the formation of a child's daytime sleep regime:

• Daytime sleep depends on the biological rhythms of the crumbs;
• To select the correct sleep time in the recommended intervals, it is important to focus on the quality of the previous rest and the degree of fatigue of the baby;
• It is important to complete daytime dreams no later than 17.00;
• The duration of daytime sleep should be at least 1 hour.

These rules will help your child to fully relax and be happy.

If you are disturbed by a bad dream at the child, the consultant in a children's dream Olga Snegovskaya will assist you. Healthy sleep of a child is one of the most important components for the proper development of a child and a good atmosphere in the family. Entrust all problems of a children's dream to the professional, listen to recommendations, and you by all means will adjust a dream of the baby!

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