5 reasons babies dont sleep well at night

An infant's sleep can be hindered by many reasons that make babies tired and fussy. To stop this situation, mothers need to find out the reasons that make babies lose sleep so that they can take timely measures.

In addition to nutritional factors, sleep is the foundation to help your baby develop healthy and intelligent. Infants need 16 hours or more of sleep a day. Getting enough sleep will ensure your child is healthy and well-developed. While the baby sleeps, the pituitary gland in the brain releases growth hormones that help the body grow.

Therefore, children with insomnia or sleep problems will not be able to grow tall and healthy like their peers, even affect cognitive, behavioral and children's issues. You may experience hormonal obesity .

As a parent, no one wants their baby to be unhappy, but they are too young to say their reasons for being upset. So, become the psychological fathers and mothers by pocketing the following aFamilyToday Health's guide to the reasons why your baby cannot sleep well at night! 

1. An infant's sleep is interrupted because hunger comes

Newborn babies' stomachs are so small that they cannot hold enough milk to meet their baby's needs for a long time through just one breast feeding. This means that all the milk your baby takes in one meal before going to bed at night can be digested quickly. When you have to go to bed with an empty stomach, your baby will get irritable and wake up halfway to ask for food.

Pediatric experts also say that this is the most common reason children interfere with sleep. In addition to being hungry, thirst is another reason why babies don't sleep well.

The most useful solution now is nothing but mothers to breastfeed their babies. However, one thing to keep in mind is that it is not advisable to practice night-feeding when your baby is a little older. The reason is that the habit of night-feeding can easily cause babies to have trouble sleeping, and it can also cause tooth decay in the future.

2. Babies can't distinguish day and night

When they are just born, babies often sleep based on need regardless of the pattern of the day and night. Many mothers, because of lack of knowledge and skills to take care of their children, let their babies sleep innocently according to their liking, in the long run, they will form a habit of sleeping at the wrong time. With young children, when they wake up at night, they often cannot lull themselves to sleep, so they will disturb their parents or caregivers.

The solution to this problem is that mothers should practice their children to sleep on time, instead of being tired when they sleep at that time. The mother should let the child get active during the day, expose the baby to sunlight in the early morning to help set the biological clock in the baby's body.

In addition, the child's bedroom also needs to be very quiet, low-light or completely off at night, because sometimes they are also factors that make children fall into a state of difficulty sleeping.

3. Health problems interfere with infant sleep

Sometimes there are health problems that can be a cause of your child's sleep. One of them could be:

Baby is hot or feels cold

Allergies or colds

Baby has digestive problems (belching, stomach pain, constipation ...)

Babies encounter reflux when they eat too full or when mothers have a habit of breastfeeding or sleeping while lying down

If your baby is fussy or difficult to sleep is due to reflux, you should let him lie on his head a little bit or patted his back after each feeding to help him burp to avoid discomfort. If your child fussy and cries without a reason, parents also need to carefully check where the baby is in pain, if the child is stung by insects to avoid bad situations from happening.

If you have carefully reviewed, but still do not know me crying What is the cause and the situation went on for days, you should take their children to a specialist to check, verify the cause and remedy timely.

4. Babies have difficulty sleeping sometimes due to a sensitivity to some factors

With infants and young children, the nervous system is inherently fragile and sensitive to all the impacts from the surrounding environment, such as: light, the temperature of the bedroom (too hot or too cold), It's too noisy around, carried by strangers ...

In addition, nutritional issues can not be ignored when considering factors that affect your baby's sleep. For example, the presence of foods with many stimulants such as chocolate, coffee, tea ... in the mother's daily diet. This definitely makes it harder for the baby to sleep after breastfeeding.

Therefore, mothers need to limit all factors that adversely affect children's sleep and avoid consuming the above foods. A little trick to create a sense of safety and cozy for your baby is to add lovely items such as teddy bears in your baby's vision so that they can comfort them when they accidentally wake up halfway.

5. Diapers: the culprits cause a significant impact on the sleep of a newborn

Many parents are often quite superficial in choosing diapers for their children . This leads to many undesirable health problems such as diaper rash, which makes the baby tired and extremely uncomfortable.

Diaper rash can result from a baby not changing diapers often . This increases the friction between the baby's skin and urine or feces when the diaper is already wet, leading to diaper rash. However, it is not so that you let your baby wear a diaper too wide because you think the baby will be more comfortable or, on the contrary, let the baby wear it tight to prevent urine, feces from spilling out if not changed in time.

Both thoughts above are completely wrong. The diaper is too wide to fit the baby's body will cause urine to spill out, too tight diapers will increase friction with the body, making the baby more prone to diaper rash.

In addition, many mothers, because they are economical, wait for the diaper to become soaked and swollen, so it accidentally creates the opportunity for some types of bacteria in the baby's urine and feces to reproduce and harm the immature skin child. 

The simplest solution for mothers to diaper is to choose a diaper with good absorbent ability so that if the baby falls asleep, the baby still feels comfortable and comfortable. 

The insomnia is no longer the fear of any mother who breastfeeds if we understand what the "grandparents" are interrupting her sleep!