Reasons why children don't sleep and related treatment suggestions

Newborn fetuses will have varying degrees of night restlessness. The reason is that the fetus cannot distinguish between day and night, because it has stayed in the mother's womb for too long, and the baby's habits have not been corrected in time. This takes time to improve. This is one reason, but there are also physiological factors. Hunger, wet diapers, and rickets are also some of the factors.

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, they are faced with the issue of day and night. In the process of millions of years of evolution, humans have developed a working habit of being active during the day and sleeping at day, so parents hope that their babies can adjust their biological clocks to match their parents' work and rest schedules. But the reality is not so.

If a baby doesn't sleep at night and cries and wants to be held by an adult, it is mostly due to psychological factors. It is an inevitable phenomenon in the growth stage. As the baby's mind develops, he gradually needs someone to stimulate and play with him. It's just that the time chosen by the baby is not suitable for adults. Noise in the middle of the night is really frustrating for parents. If this habit is not corrected in time, it may continue and seriously affect the parents' rest and work. In addition to poor sleeping habits, there are two physiological factors that cause night crying:

(1) Hunger and wet diapers: Young parents often sleep too deeply at night and are difficult to wake up because they are overworked during the day. When a baby is hungry at night or has a wet diaper, he or she will often wake up the mother by crying loudly. Over time, this will become a conditioned reflex, leading to night crying disorder. If it is caused by hunger, the baby will often suck in the intervals between crying, and the crying will stop as long as they are fed; if it is caused by wet diapers or uncomfortable body position, the crying will stop when the conditions improve.

(2) Rickets: Due to the lack of vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus metabolism are disturbed and blood calcium is reduced, which is medically known as hypocalcemia. Because low blood calcium puts the nervous system in an excited state, the child may show mild symptoms such as irritability, crying, being annoying, and being frightened, or even have convulsions in severe cases. Once you find that your child has these symptoms, you should take the child to the hospital to check whether he or she has the disease. If the diagnosis is clear, you should start treatment in time, give intramuscular injections of vitamin D3, and take calcium supplements at the same time. Children should be exposed to the sun more often, because ultraviolet rays can make the skin automatically produce vitamin D.

All parents hope that their children can adjust their biological clock as soon as possible, because for parents who work during the day, it will be too tiring to take care of their children at night. These are the reasons why children do not sleep and cry at night. If it is not these, other factors should be considered. Rickets is a more serious condition of children not sleeping and crying, and parents must recognize the situation.