Why do babies keep waking up during sleep?

As babies grow, their bodies and intelligence will change over time. It is a common physical condition for babies to always wake up during sleep. Generally, there are many reasons why babies always wake up during sleep. This may be caused by the anxiety that the baby feels after leaving the mother. The mother can gently pat the baby to make the baby feel safe so that the baby can fall asleep better.

1. Anxiety

Babies aged 6 to 18 months may feel lonely and anxious when they wake up in the middle of the night. If the baby sleeps in the crib in the parents' room, the mother can turn on a small light, pat his body gently, and whisper to him, "Mom is by your side, sleep peacefully", until the baby falls asleep, then stop patting his body. If this situation still occurs the next day, you can continue to take this small comforting measure, but gradually reduce the patting of your hands, and focus on verbal comfort, until finally no language is needed, let the baby fall asleep and fall asleep by himself. It takes a long time to use this method to deal with the baby's frequent waking up at night, so parents must be patient.

2. Want to continue playing

This situation is more common in babies aged 1-2 years old. The baby wakes up in the middle of the night and cries, asking parents to carry him or play with him like they do during the day, which prevents parents from getting any rest at night. If his parents pretend to sleep and ignore him, he will get angry, cry harder, scream louder, and even grab his parents' hair or face with his hands. In this situation, parents should focus on comforting the baby first. They can hold the baby and coax him/her, then put the baby on the bed and pat his/her body to help him/her fall asleep.

But in most cases, the baby will still cry. At this time, parents can ignore it and let the baby know that crying after waking up at night will get nothing. After a few days, the baby's crying time each night will shorten and eventually disappear. But most parents cannot bear it and are reluctant to let their babies cry and make noise for a long time, and the result is that the baby will become worse and worse as he is spoiled.

For some babies who like to play at night, parents can let them play by themselves and they will fall asleep naturally when they are tired. If the baby sleeps too long during the day, parents should reduce the daytime sleep time and increase the baby's activities so that the baby can sleep more deeply at night. Another way to help babies fall asleep again after waking up is to use "healthy sleep associations" to make them think of the people or things they were sleeping with. For example, if they were holding a teddy bear or a doll before falling asleep, then when they fall asleep again, let them still hold the original things in their hands. Parents can tell them: The teddy bear or doll is very tired after playing all day, and they also want to sleep, so you can sleep with them!"

If breastfed babies are not given vitamin D in time, it will affect the baby's calcium absorption and calcium deposition in the bones and cause vitamin D deficiency rickets (most people think it is caused by calcium deficiency, but in fact the essence of the disease is vitamin D deficiency). Babies with rickets often wake up easily at night. Nowadays, parents pay more attention to preventing nutritional vitamin D deficiency. In daily child health clinics, babies who wake up easily at night are all taking vitamin D and calcium supplements.

The reason why babies wake up easily at night may also be due to lack of vitamin B1. The reason for the baby's vitamin B1 deficiency is mainly that the food eaten by breastfeeding mothers every day is too refined and in small quantities, resulting in low concentration of vitamin B1 in breast milk, or it is related to the fact that the food in the baby's diet is too refined.

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It usually occurs in babies aged 2-3 months. Most babies cry in the evening, which can last for 2-3 hours. Some intestinal cramps also occur at night. No matter how you comfort the baby, it is useless. You can often hear intestinal rumbling sounds when the baby cries, and he farts from time to time. Even if the baby cries like this every day, it does not affect breastfeeding and the weight will still increase. If you give the baby some sedatives, the crying can be relieved and eventually disappear.