Why does the baby keep yawning?

Women who have been mothers may have noticed that their children yawn. Generally, children will yawn after they are born. This is something that many mothers don’t quite understand. However, experienced mothers may have found that their babies have had this kind of thing and know the reasons why it occurs. So why do babies yawn all the time? Now, let’s have a brief understanding through the following introduction, I hope it will be helpful to mothers.

Yawning helps protect brain cells and increase the oxygen supply to brain cells. It can effectively improve the body's ability to cope with stress. When the human nervous system consumes energy, a large amount of carbon dioxide is produced. Yawning is a way to expel excess carbon dioxide from the body and inhale more oxygen to protect the brain. This is a manifestation of the human body's strong self-regulating ability.

If there is excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide in the baby's environment, the baby may yawn frequently. What the mother should do at this time is to take the baby to another room, or cover him with a warm quilt, and then open the window to keep the indoor and outdoor air circulating. Pediatricians at New York University in the United States found that among babies who yawn frequently, more than 60% live in bedrooms that are not ventilated all year round.

Some people believe that babies yawning frequently is a sign of sleepiness. In fact, for babies under 4 months old, they sleep more than 16 hours a day. Although most of the time is in light sleep, it does not make them particularly tired. So, unlike adults who yawn because of tiredness, babies' yawns express different meanings.

Through the above introduction, we know why babies yawn all the time. After discovering that the child has been in this situation, what we need to do is to ventilate the house in time. You can first take the baby to another room, close the window after ventilation and go back. If the baby still yawns, you need to pay attention.