Why is my nine-month-old baby restless when sleeping at night?

It is common for babies to experience uneasy sleep, easy waking up, crying and other adverse symptoms. The nine-month-old baby is restless when sleeping at night. Crying at night will also affect the sleep of parents, and they will worry about the baby's health. Let us now understand why a nine-month-old baby is restless when sleeping at night?

It may be caused by calcium deficiency. Calcium supplements such as calcium gluconate oral solution, Diqiao or Longmu Zhuanggu granules can be used for treatment. In combination with cod liver oil, taking your baby outdoors to bask in the sun often when the weather is fine can help promote calcium absorption. Pay attention to scientific diet and balanced nutrition.

The baby's sleep process is cyclical. In each sleep cycle, there are two forms of deep sleep and light sleep that cycle back and forth. When the baby enters the light sleep stage, he may show some sleep-disrupting behaviors such as moving eyes, head, limbs, and making sounds, which are generally normal. At this time, parents should not rush to disturb the baby or change his sleeping state. They can pat the baby appropriately and the baby may continue to sleep. There are two situations in which babies have restless sleep: one is physiological: this is an instinctive reaction, a way for babies to express their emotions and needs, which may be due to hunger, heat or cold, being frightened or disturbed by dreams, too much sleep during the day, etc. At this time, parents only need to make adjustments and comfort the baby according to the specific situation to calm the baby down and help the baby sleep well. There is also a pathological condition: it should be given enough attention. Any disease that causes pain, itching and other discomforts to the baby will make the baby sleep disturbed, such as fever, eczema, intestinal cramps, oral ulcers, pinworm infection, etc. In addition, babies who are calcium deficient usually suffer from sweating, bald spots on the back of the head, night terrors, irritability, etc. You can take your baby for trace element testing. Parents should pay attention to the following before their baby goes to bed:

1. Keep your baby from having too much dinner. Drinking milk once will help him sleep better.

2. Appropriately reduce various stimulations to the body. Taking a hot bath and doing massage before going to bed is conducive to physical relaxation;

3. Don't dress your baby too much when sleeping, and keep the bedding at an appropriate temperature;

4. Parents should try their best to create a good sleeping environment for their baby. It is best to turn off the lights when the baby is sleeping to maintain a comfortable and quiet sleeping environment.

The above are the reasons why nine-month-old babies sleep restlessly at night and some solutions. Don’t let babies sleep too much during the day, otherwise they will not be able to sleep at night. Secondly, babies begin to adapt to the external environment after birth, and they have not yet fully adapted, so the external environment has a great impact on them.