You have already met your baby, began to understand his wishes and needs and even began to find time for domestic chores ... But suddenly, you are faced with his new "habit" - the child is sleeping during the day, and at night awake. This means that the baby has confused the day with the night.
Why do not children sleep at night?
Hardly a newly acquired habit shows the nature of your baby and says, for example, that your little one in adulthood will lead the way of life of an "owl" rather than a "lark". It is more correct to look for a cause not in your child, but in yourself. After all, how do you want to do the most necessary at home while your husband is at work. Prepare a delicious dinner, wash and iron all the children's things, sew a quilt for the baby, in the end. How glorious that a child sleeps a sweet dream, then everything will be in time ...
But when the night comes it turns out that all the attention that you did not give the baby during the day will have to be given in the dark, and not only to you, but to all the domestic ones. After all, at night, putting the baby to bed will come to the rescue of everything. Only, as it turns out, excessive attention on the part of those who wish can further exacerbate the situation - instead of calming down, the baby can become even more excited.
How to teach a child to sleep at night?
In case your newborn child confused the day with the night, follow the following tips to restore your comfortable daily routine.
- Talk loudly and kindly to your child during the day, sing songs to him, talk about everything that's happening, play with him. At the same time, you lead very calmly at night, games are unacceptable, a loud voice, cries. The impulsive remark "but when you are silent!" You can nullify all your efforts. The child should feel pacification and calmness, and their guide can only become his father and mother.
- Before going to bed for the baby, make sure that, on the one hand, he is not hungry, his diaper is dry, the air in the room is cool and moist, and on the other hand you are full of strength and calmness, to bring the sleeping process to bed end, without resorting to someone else's help. In the event that a child has a gazik or a teeth cut, take appropriate measures before bed (in the first case, do a soft soothing massage before going to bed, in the second - alleviate the suffering of the child with an anesthetic paste).
- Enter a specific ritual that you will repeat each time before you put the baby to bed. The sequence can be as follows: bath, dinner, light off, lullabies, sleep. If the child begins to cry when you turn off the light, use a child's lamp with diffused light, however, you should immediately let the child know that even if it is crying, the light will be turned off. Do not leave the child, calmly and persistently tell him that time is later and
play with him as the day, no one is going. Arrange in advance with the home, who will lay the baby and do not create a "roundabout" around the crib, because the changing faces do not reassure, but on the contrary excite him. - While you tame the child to sleep at night (and this process, if persistently follow the proposed plan, should not take more than three days), try not to change the baby's bedding, his clothes, and toys that surround him. A new toy or drawing on a fabric can take the attention of a crumb and therefore it will be difficult for him to fall asleep.
Patience and persistence are the key to your success. If the newborn child confused the day with the night, then it was to your hand that he slept longer. Time to correct the current situation.