What happens when a three-year-old baby has less sleep?

We all know that the baby's sleep and schedule are not regular when they are just born, and they spend most of the day sleeping. However, as the baby grows day by day, his living habits gradually become regular, especially when the baby is three years old and has a certain cognitive ability. Only by ensuring good living habits during this period can the baby grow up healthily. After discovering that the child sleeps restlessly at night, I wonder what's going on with the three-year-old baby who sleeps less.

What happens when a three-year-old baby has less sleep?

If you find that your child is restless at night, you can look for solutions to the problem from the following aspects:

1. Take your child to a regular hospital to see a doctor for a check-up to see if he or she has any diseases such as intestinal parasites, whether he or she is lacking in the nutrients needed for this growth stage, and whether his or her nervous reflex system is normal. If the child is sick, timely treatment is required. If the body is healthy, sleep will naturally be sound.

2. Parents should carefully observe their children and have careful conversations with them to check whether their children are psychologically normal. Especially when their children are in a bad mood or look unstable for a period of time, parents should adopt a gentle attitude and talk to their children in time to understand their children’s inner thoughts. If the children have psychological deviations, parents should find ways to enlighten and correct them in time. If necessary, they can seek help from a psychologist. Once the psychological problems are solved, the children will no longer toss and turn and sleep restlessly.

3. Create a good environment for children. Make sure your child's quilt is adjusted according to seasonal changes and not too thick. Make sure the indoor temperature is appropriate and not too high. Make sure the indoor air is fresh. Good ventilation can promote your child's sleep.

4. Parents should guide their children to develop good living habits, with the focus on diet. Dinner should be light, not too full, and not too greasy. Children should not be allowed to do strenuous exercise before going to bed, and should go to bed before 10 pm. 0.5-1 hour before the baby goes to sleep, the baby should be kept quiet, not watching stimulating TV programs, not telling tense or scary stories, and not playing with new toys. Wash your face, feet and butt before going to bed at night. Have your child empty his bladder before bed. Clothes that are taken off should be placed neatly in the corresponding places, and you should go to bed and get up on time. Gradually develop the habit of going to bed and getting up on time.

5. Comfortable sleeping position: Babies over 1 year old have formed their own sleeping position. You should respect the baby’s sleeping position. As long as the baby sleeps comfortably, it doesn’t matter if the baby sleeps on his back, stomach or side. If your baby wants to go back to sleep right after drinking milk at night, it is better for him to lie on his right side, which is conducive to the digestion and absorption of food. If your baby sleeps for a long time, you can help him change his position.

6. Some babies sleep restlessly at night, wake up easily, and cry. Their parents will immediately pick them up, pat them, and coax them to fall asleep again. As a result, the babies quickly get used to sleeping in their parents' arms and will not fall asleep without patting or coaxing them. To this end, it is necessary to find out the cause of any occasional crying in the middle of the night.

For example, if the patient has been wronged during the day, listened to thrilling stories, eaten too much before going to bed, or is hungry, thirsty, wets the bed, has underwear that is too tight or too hard causing physical discomfort, or has abdominal pain caused by intestinal parasites or other reasons, or nasal congestion caused by respiratory infections, etc., targeted treatment can be given. If there is no physical illness, the child's sleeping environment should be changed, such as letting him sleep alone; if he wakes up at night, parents should overcome their anxiety, neither touch the child excessively nor be irritable or lose their temper, then the crying at night can be corrected by itself.

An introduction to what happens when a three-year-old baby sleeps less. After understanding, we know that the sleep of a three-year-old baby has a certain regularity, so parents must help the baby develop a good life in the process of taking care of the baby. In addition, attention should be paid to the balance of nutrition in the diet, and do not let the child develop the habit of being picky about food.