How to adjust the baby's late sleep How to correct the baby's late sleep

The baby's sleep is of concern to every parent. Many babies go to bed very late, which not only seriously affects their personal health, but also affects the sleep of their family members. Everyone will stay up late, which is very bad.

How to adjust the baby's late sleep

Method 1: Make a schedule and follow it strictly

Parents can make a schedule with their children and strictly enforce it. If the child is used to going to bed late, parents should not force the child to go to bed early all of a sudden, but should gradually change it, for example, one week the child should go to bed at 10:30 pm, and the next week the child should go to bed at 10 pm.

Method 2: Avoid strenuous activities at night

If children do strenuous activities before going to bed, they will be excited and it will be more difficult for them to fall asleep. So avoid doing strenuous activities before going to bed, such as doing strenuous exercise, watching exciting TV or playing brain-stimulating games.

Method 3: Create a bedtime atmosphere

To let your child go to bed early, you need to create a sleeping atmosphere in advance, such as dimming the lights in the room, drawing the curtains, playing soothing music, making the bed, etc.

Method 4: Parents set an example by not staying up late

When it is time for the child to go to bed, it is best for the parents to go to bed together. If the parents do not sleep, the children will still be easily excited or feel unfair. If the parents have unfinished work or other things, it is best to be alone in a room with the door closed and the lights dimmed to avoid disturbing the children.

Note: Going to bed early is the most indispensable factor for children in their healthy growth stage. Developing the good habit of going to bed early will undoubtedly benefit children.

How to correct your baby's late sleep

1. Create a good sleeping environment: Many parents now have the habit of going to bed late, but if parents go to bed late, children will also imitate their parents' habit of going to bed late. Therefore, the best sleeping environment is that the whole family turns off the lights and goes to bed around nine o'clock every night, so that the children will have a good sleeping environment.

2. Develop a biological clock: Go to bed on time every night, go to bed early and get up early, and take a nap around 1 o'clock after lunch. If you persist for a period of time, your child's biological clock will be fixed and his sleep will naturally become regular.

3. Don’t be excited before going to bed: After 8 o’clock every night, try to let your children play less exciting games. The best activity is parent-child reading, so that the children’s emotions will be stable and ready for bed.

4. Gradually adjust the work and rest schedule: Some children are used to going to bed late and getting up late, so it is difficult to adjust immediately. In this case, you should do it step by step. For example, if you are used to getting up at 10 o'clock in the morning, you can gradually get up earlier to 9:30, and then to 9 o'clock. Let the child play more physically demanding games or sports during the rest time, so that the child will be more tired at night and naturally go to bed early.

The harm of late sleep for babies

Hazard 1: Affects children's height

Around ten o'clock in the evening is the best time for the secretion of growth hormone in children. Growth hormone can only be secreted after the child enters deep sleep. If the child does not sleep, growth hormone cannot be secreted and the child's height will inevitably be affected.

Hazard 2: Excessive pressure on the heart can cause future problems

Some children who don't go to bed early at night will feel tired the next day, and this fatigue will make the children emotionally unstable, such as crying, making trouble, and being irritable. These negative emotions will put pressure on the heart, and staying up late for a long time is extremely harmful to the child's cardiovascular system. If the work and rest schedule is not adjusted early to correct the mistakes, then in the future, the child will easily suffer from serious cardiovascular diseases.

Harm 3: Weakened immunity, children are more susceptible to illness

If children go to bed late at night, even if they make up for sleep during the day, they will not be energetic. Instead, they will feel more tired the more they sleep. So over time, children will become listless and lack of sleep, which will eventually weaken their resistance.

Hazard 4: Affecting intellectual development

Going to bed late will prevent the brain from getting enough rest, and brain cells will not be able to fully develop. Therefore, in the long run, it will make children become distracted, their memory will weaken, and their reaction ability will decrease, which will seriously hinder their intellectual development.

Harm 5: Leading to precocious puberty in children

If children go to bed late, it will stimulate the secretion of hormones in the body. Excessive secretion will affect the normal regulation of sex hormones by the pituitary gland. This phenomenon will lead to precocious puberty in children.

Hazard 6: Leading to obesity

If children go to bed late, it will hinder the metabolism in the body. Over time, it will lead to obesity. Children who go to bed late usually like to have snacks at night, which will also cause them to gain weight.

Reasons why babies wake up frequently at night

There is no magic wand in the world that can solve all baby sleep problems at once. The key is to teach the baby to fall asleep alone and get the baby used to eating during the day and sleeping at night. Newborns usually need more sleep than adults, which means that newborns wake up more often when they sleep, so when they wake up, they need help to fall asleep again as soon as possible. Think about it, when the newborn is in the mother's belly, the bed is constantly rocking, like a cradle to send the baby back to sleep, and there is no worry about food, and you can absorb nutrition at any time. After coming to this world, you have to sleep in a fixed crib, and you can't eat for several hours. It's pretty pitiful to think about it. Therefore, in addition to accompanying the baby's growth, the key is to teach him to soothe himself and let the baby work hard to fall asleep again.