Helping your baby to sleep at night without crying
During the first months of life, the baby does not distinguish day from night, sleep and wake up every few hours. Babies have a sleep-wake rhythm called ultradiano every 3 or 4 hours they wake up, eat and go to sleep. Adults follow a rhythm of circadian sleep-wakefulness, which is repeated approximately every 24 hours.
For the 6 months and have established almost all stages of sleep and many babies begin to concentrate sleep at night, making sleep almost all night at a stretch. 30% of babies do not adapt easily to the rhythm of sleep in adults and because of this lack of sleep, the baby will feel nervous and irritable, tired and crying, which causes the parents to sleep and not become frustrated.
Some studies have shown that breast milk varies in the concentration of certain nutrients such as tryptophan, an essential amino acid necessary for the brain segregates serotonin, a brain neurotransmitter that promotes sleep, which is the precursor of serotonin hormone melatonin, which is vital to regulate the daily cycle of wakefulness-sleep.
This shows again that breastfeeding is a great help in the development of our baby and help you sleep at night because the sucking chest relaxes tired and more, has all the nutrients necessary for him Although sleep is an evolutionary process, no doubt breast milk gives tryptophan needed to help get the circadian rhythm.
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Hello to all moms! I also had much trouble sleeping and my son to sleep the entire night. It is almost 21 months and barely sleeps pull. I think it is about giving chest. Accustomed to bad my son since the first months of his life. I was very tired, do not hit the eye, and my only way to sleep, he was giving his chest, and he slept well. But of course, they will wake up and want to remain glued to the chest, and feel they are not crying .. is creating a cycle of dependency. I support breastfeeding, but we must teach them about good sleeping habits. They have to grab sleep alone. Total .. My son no longer sleeps with his chest, so I got a little bit, and now sleeps much better. But the sleeping with me. Many think this is bad, well, it all depends .. I like the truth, we become each other company .. when my son grabs sleep need to touch my hair and give us some well apapaches strong. I think everything will come in time, like the time in which our children will want independence, more and more. I wish a lot of patience to moms who are a little desperate, but remember that these moments that really are unique, they spend, are not forever .. everything bad is something good and everything bad something good, but we are always happy and healthy we are. with much love!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm