How to coax your baby to sleep, four points to note

Coaxing babies to sleep is a problem that troubles many mothers. Some babies don't sleep at night, and this problem troubles many mothers. Watching the baby’s peaceful sleeping face is one of the happiest things for a mother, but mothers always make mistakes in life due to lack of common sense, so here are the four major things to do to coax a baby to sleep.

First, rock your child to sleep. Some mothers like to hold their babies in their arms and rock them to sleep. In fact, the child is too young, and his brain and skull are still immature. If the child is often rocked, it will affect his intelligence and may even cause cerebral edema. So when your child is sleeping, try to place him/her on the bed instead of holding him/her in your arms and rocking him/her.

Second, hug your child to sleep. No matter how much you love your child, you should not hug your child when he/she is asleep. This is because when you hug your child, you may breathe towards the child, or you may hug the child too tightly, which will prevent the baby from breathing fresh air, and in severe cases, the child may even suffocate.

Third, use an electric blanket for your child. In many cities in our country, due to the lack of heating, it is particularly cold when sleeping in winter. Parents often worry that their children will catch cold and will use electric blankets for their children. But children don’t know how to urinate and defecate. If they wet the bed, it can easily cause electric shock. Even if the child is using diapers, the temperature of the electric blanket rises quickly, which can cause mild dehydration to the baby and affect the baby's health.

Therefore, never use electric blankets for children. You can choose to use a hot water bottle with better safety performance and wrap it in a towel for children to use.

Fourth, sleep in the light. Some young mothers often keep the lights on in the bedroom all night to facilitate nighttime feeding and diaper changing, which is beneficial to the baby.

Medical research shows that if babies sleep in an environment with the lights on all night, they may suffer from poor sleep, shortened sleep time, and thus slow down their development. Because the baby's nervous system is still in the development stage and its ability to adapt to environmental changes is poor, keeping the lights on in the bedroom all night will inevitably change the natural law of day light and night darkness that the human body adapts to, thereby affecting the baby's normal metabolism and endangering growth and development.

Taking vision development as an example, according to a report by British scholars: 30% of children who sleep with a small light on in their room become nearsighted, while the incidence of myopia among children who sleep with bright lights on is as high as 55%.