Is it okay for a baby to drink milk while sleeping?

The baby's life has no regular pattern. He cries and eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is sleepy. In daily life, many parents may have encountered the phenomenon that their children fall asleep while feeding. Adults generally cannot go to sleep immediately after eating. If children often do this, parents will definitely worry that it will have an adverse effect on their children's health. So, is it okay for babies to drink milk while sleeping? Let’s look at the impact of this below.

There are certain disadvantages to feeding your baby before going to bed.

Newborns can easily fall asleep while feeding. In order to make their children fall asleep faster, some mothers like to feed their babies before they go to bed. In fact, this approach is incorrect.

Generally, newborns sleep almost all the time except when they are awake for feeding or when their diapers are wet. The baby's nervous system is not yet fully developed and the brain is easily fatigued, so getting more sleep is exactly what the baby needs for growth and development. If your baby wants to sleep well, he or she must develop good sleeping habits.

Mothers should breastfeed regularly during the day. The breastfeeding before bedtime can be thicker and fed later (21:00-22:00). Try not to feed your baby at night after he has eaten. Generally, do not change his diaper if he does not urinate. Let him sleep soundly until dawn. The child should sleep alone, not with the mother. This way the air is fresh, and the child will not be unable to sleep because the mother is away, so both mother and child can rest well. If the mother sleeps too deeply and sleeps with the child, the child may be crushed to death. This accident will not happen if the child sleeps alone. The quilts that children cover should be light, soft, warm and comfortable, but not too many.

In addition, do not tease or scare your child before going to bed to avoid excessive excitement and affecting sleep. Also, do not develop the bad habit of holding your child in your arms, shaking him or her, patting his or her back, or feeding him or her a nipple before falling asleep. Instead, you should put your child in bed and let him or her sleep by himself or herself.

The disadvantages outweigh the advantages of letting your baby develop the habit of feeding before going to bed. Therefore, mothers should correct their baby's feeding time in time to avoid affecting the baby's sleep time.