Why do children keep yawning?

We will find that children yawn shortly after they are born. While we are amazed at the baby's amazing ability, many parents are particularly worried and don't understand why the baby yawns when he or she has enough sleep. In fact, it is normal for babies to yawn. So why do children yawn all the time? Let’s take a brief look at it below.

This is normal. Newborns basically do nothing but sleep and yawn except for feeding. Newborns within one month old, under normal circumstances, sleep an average of about sixteen to twenty hours a day, which is more than twice that of adults. When in the mother's womb, the fetus cannot tell the difference between day and night because it is always dark inside the uterus. However, right after birth, the baby is faced with the problem of day and night, and the baby's biological clock cannot be adjusted in a short period of time, so he or she will yawn frequently.

In short, yawning is an instinctive reaction of the human body. Like heartbeat and breathing, it is not controlled by human will. It has a good protective effect on protecting brain cells, increasing the oxygen supply to brain cells, and improving the body's stress resistance.

A yawn lasts about 6 seconds, during which time a person closes his eyes and ears, and the nerves and muscles of the whole body are completely relaxed. Therefore, it can be considered that yawning allows people to get the best rest both physiologically and psychologically, and has an important physiological protective effect on the human body. Some people believe that yawning is a sign of brain hypoxia. Through the deep breathing exercise of yawning, the human body increases oxygen in the blood and expel more carbon dioxide, making people more energetic. When people are sleepy, they often yawn continuously to remind the body that the brain is tired and needs sleep and rest, so yawning is also a method of hypnosis. When people are about to start intense work, they often yawn. This may be because the human body uses deep breathing to add more oxygen to the blood and improve the brain's activity.

Through the above introduction, we know the reasons why children always yawn. In normal times, we should pay attention to let the baby have enough sleep time. Also, we should pay attention to ventilating the room where the child is. When the baby sleeps well and is well ventilated, the baby's yawning will generally decrease.