What are the benefits of letting your baby sleep alone?

Nowadays, many parents are particularly doting on their babies, especially some babies who sleep with their parents from the time they are born until they grow up. However, this will have a greater impact on the babies. In fact, there are many benefits for babies to sleep alone.

1. Good for the baby's health

If the baby sleeps with his parents, especially between the adults, although it is more convenient to take care of the baby, it will cause some harm to the baby's health. A baby sleeping among adults will be surrounded by the adults' heavy clothes and quilts, which may accidentally crush the baby; the carbon dioxide exhaled by adults during sleep will permeate around the baby all night, depriving the baby of fresh air, causing sleep disturbances, nightmares and crying at night; if the baby sleeps in the same bed with adults, the germs on the adults can easily be transmitted to the baby; sometimes the parents will wake up the baby when they turn over or move, affecting the quality of sleep. Therefore, letting your baby sleep alone is good for their health.

2. It is conducive to cultivating inner independence from an early age

Whether infants and young children can be inner independent is an important indicator of whether they can correctly understand themselves. Research shows that children’s independence develops from form to content. The so-called form is the visible and tangible way children behave, while the content is the child’s inner heart. Letting children sleep separately from their parents at the appropriate age can help them develop a sense of independence and self-care ability, and promote their psychological maturity. Babies can do a lot of things when they are alone or without adult assistance, such as playing with themselves, talking to themselves, etc. This can prevent them from becoming overly dependent on their parents when they grow up, and when they feel lonely in the future, the experience of being alone in childhood will help them adapt to the surrounding environment quickly.

3. It is conducive to promoting the relationship between couples

When a baby is added to the family, the focus of family life shifts to the baby, and many things revolve around the baby. As a result, communication, exchanges and mutual care between couples are much less than before. Often, mothers have to coax their babies to sleep at night, and if the baby is difficult, they have to coax him for a long time. After the baby falls asleep, both husband and wife are very sleepy, which will inevitably affect their relationship in the long run.

4. It is beneficial to the recovery of the mother

It also takes some time for a mother's body to recover after giving birth. Because childbirth consumes a lot of physical energy and the body's resistance is low, if the mother often sleeps with the newborn in her arms, she will not get enough sleep and rest. This not only affects physical recovery and repair of reproductive organs, but also makes the mother more likely to suffer from certain diseases.