Causes and treatments of restless sleeping in babies

Babies will become insecure after leaving their mother's body. In order to let our babies grow up comfortably, we need to master many skills to take care of babies. Generally, babies are restless when sleeping and always wake up in the middle of the night. Here we will introduce some specific solutions.

Causes of restless sleep in babies

1. Lack of trace elements and low blood calcium levels will cause increased excitability of the brain and autonomic nerves, resulting in the baby's restless sleep at night. Calcium and vitamin D supplementation is needed. If calcium is deficient, the baby's fontanelle will not close well; if zinc is deficient, the corners of the mouth will generally ulcerate.

2. Too hot or too cold

3. Too dry, with mucus in the nose

4. Playing too excitedly before going to bed.

5. Pay attention to whether there are pinworms outside the anus.

6. Many mothers think their babies are hungry when they see them wake up crying at night, and then they feed them. In fact, this is a very bad habit. Doing so will instead cause the child to develop the habit of wanting to breastfeed when he wakes up at night.

7. Indigestion, indigestion, getting angry or eating too much at night can also cause restless sleep.

8. Breastfed babies are addicted to milk. (This happens to many breastfeeding babies)

9. If you must breastfeed at night, please remember to: try to maintain a quiet environment. .

10. If your baby wakes up at night because he wants to pee, I think he should be given a diaper so that his sleep will not be affected by holding him to pee. If you use diapers, they must be too tight.

11. When you find your child is sleepy, put him in the crib immediately.

12. Do not let your baby fall asleep with a pacifier in his mouth. Pacifiers are for babies to suck milk, not for sleeping. If some children fall asleep with a pacifier in their mouth, please gently remove the pacifier before putting them to bed.

13. When your baby cries, don’t react immediately. Wait for a few minutes, because most children will fall asleep again naturally after a few minutes after waking up at night.

14. The quilt or sleeping posture is uncomfortable

15. Separation Anxiety

How to prevent babies from having restless sleep

1. Don’t coax or pat your baby for too long before going to bed. Leave before your baby falls asleep and let him fall asleep on his own. Don't let an adult hold your baby while he or she is sleeping.

2. Spend a certain amount of time playing intimately with your baby during the day, so that he/she can realize that mom and dad love him/her very much and will give him/her plenty of care.

3. Play hide-and-seek with your baby to let him realize that even if he can't see his parents, they are actually around him.

4. Take your child outside often and don’t keep him/her at home all day, only being familiar with the home environment.

Babies are very fragile, so parents need to be extra careful when taking care of them. Everything about babies is taught by their parents, so it is necessary to help them develop good living habits when they are young. The above are the reasons and methods for babies to sleep restlessly. I hope it can help parents who are thinking about these problems.