What should I do if my child has trouble sleeping?

We all know that sleep plays a very important role in our human body, and it is even more important for children. If a child has problems with sleep, it will not only lead to a decrease in the child's body resistance but also affect the child's growth and development. Therefore, once parents find that their children do not sleep well, they must pay attention to it and find out the reasons why the children do not sleep well. In the following article, we will introduce to you what to do if your child does not sleep well.

Understand your baby's sleep time.

A newborn baby one month old needs to sleep 16 to 18 hours a day; babies from one month to six months old need to sleep 14 to 16 hours a day; children from six months to one year old need to sleep 13 to 15 hours a day.

Understanding Infant and Toddler Sleep Hours

Infants and young children's sleep time needs to be divided into several segments a day. Children under two years old should have at least two naps a day, and children two years old and older should have at least one nap a day. Whether your baby gets enough sleep can be judged by the baby's activity level and growth and development. Babies can be trained to develop good sleeping habits from birth. Regular sleep patterns can reduce the mother's burden and increase milk secretion.

The importance of adequate sleep for babies

Night sleep of babies will affect their growth and development: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. is the critical period for the secretion of growth hormone in babies; the process of energy storage when babies sleep: good sleep can make babies full of energy; baby sleep will affect intelligence: good sleep can improve baby's intelligence and promote the development of baby's thinking ability.

Appropriate nutritional supplements are also important for your baby's good sleep quality.

When purchasing milk powder, you can choose milk powder with whey protein, which contains tryptophan, which can promote the development of the nervous system; you can choose milk powder with structured fat OPO, which can promote the baby's absorption of calcium; at the same time, pay attention to supplementing cod liver oil, take your children outdoors, and let the baby synthesize vitamin D by himself.

In the above article, we introduced the importance of sleep for children. If a child has poor sleep, parents must pay attention to it. There are many reasons why children have poor sleep. We only need to find out the reasons why children have poor sleep and take targeted measures to make children sleep well. The above article introduces in detail what to do if a child has poor sleep.