Observance of sleep and wakefulness is very important for the full development of children of the first years of life. As the mode of life growing crumbs are constantly changing. If at first the children, mainly, sleep and wake up only briefly to eat something, and later their biorhythms are adjusted and they move on to day two of sleep, and after one. This usually occurs between the ages of one to two years. However, even if your crumbs already two years old, it does not mean that it is biologically ready for such a transition. Healthy sleep is necessary for proper child development of the brain and nervous system. Therefore, if you do this ahead of time, the baby will react whims, bad behavior and mood swings.
How do you know that your baby is ready for such a change in the mode and how to make this transition a good child psychologist advises, author of many parenting books (including "How to put baby to sleep without tears"), a mother of four children, Elizabeth Pentli.
Reasons not to transfer the child to a day dream
1. The baby is not yet a year.
2. He resists, when you style your playing in the crib, but soon fell asleep an hour or even longer.
3. Scarce quickly falls asleep in the car or other vehicle.
4. If a child misses a nap, getting moody and irritable.
5. The kid is not healthy or in his life is changing, that stress his nervous system, It affects the quality of the day and night of sleep: for example, he began to walk on the early development of courses or in a manger.
6. Kid skips sleep, if you, for example, stayed in line at the clinic, but at home is easy to fall asleep.
How do you know that your baby is ready to go on a one day dream
1. The kid refuses to be laid in bed on the first day sleep, naughty or playing in the crib. At the same time he is not sleeping or falling asleep in a very short time.
2. The child does not fall asleep during a short ride in a car or truck.
3. If a nap is missed, the crumb does not look tired, eating well and not naughty.
4. baby sleeps tight in the second naps.
How to transfer the child to a day dream. You have become accustomed to that at your disposal, when the baby sleeps twice a day. But a nap in the end perfectly "fit" into your schedule. After all, this is just two hours of free time, not 40 minutes, during which something difficult to catch. In addition, such change is inevitable, so you better prepare in advance for this and think about it.
Be patient: some kids are able to accept the regime change almost immediately, while some may take months. Do not force events, and carefully look for a reaction to changes in the child, guided by its biological clock. As soon as he starts mischievous, laid him. schedule rebuilt soon and you will know that sleep is necessary, for example, from 13 hours and you need to catch up to this time to take a walk on the court, to go home and have dinner.
Instead of the first day of sleep, you can set aside an hour for quiet games or reading books, because the child used at this time are not also active.
Try to observe the daily routine - wake up and put the crumbs in the same time. If the kid was tired and wanted to lie down ahead of time to pack. In the evening, start the process waste to bed earlier for 40-60 minutes.
And be sure to ask, any 6 mistakes parents spoil the child sleep.
