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* Most children start any trouble sleeping. Many use a stuffed toy or some source of light to initiate sleep. So that’s normal.
* The experiences that influence the child has sleep disorders are:
or sleep in parents bed.
or accident or sickness.
or separation or absence of the mother (labor, travel, etc).
or maternal depression.
or ambivalent or contradictory maternal attitude in child rearing.
* Children may feel that bedtime is a time when they are away from the love and care from their parents (separation anxiety)
* Older children may have fear or anxiety in the presence of noise at night, thieves, etc. Not always express it openly, but sometimes use delaying tactics to go when initiating sleep.
* Separation anxiety and fear to initiate sleep is often triggered when the child has begun his stay in a nursery, and more even if there are marital conflicts, death of a relative, etc.
* 5% of children older than 5 years has nightmares. It is more common in girls.

TREATMENT

What is essential is the support of parents, emotional stimulation and motivation to overcome this situation. There are some general rules and others that depend on the child’s age.

General rules

* Maintain, at all costs, a sleep onset time to be fulfilled irreversibly allowing few modifications.
* Parents should not allow the child to sleep in their bed. They can make the concession that sleep, momentáneamnete, in bed with one of his brothers, for example.
* You should avoid at all costs to present TV sb degree of violence.
* You can offer a night swim, a faint light or a previous moment of conversation before starting the dream. In some children does start reading a story. You can accept, temporarily, to sleep with a light on or open door.
* Only the doctor can authorize the use of tranquillizers in a few cases.

Newborn

* Do not let your baby sleep more than three consecutive hours during the morning. Wake him fondly. Thus sleep more at night.
* Do not give milk or bottle every time she cries. Do not always cry of hunger. If the baby is fed constantly by day, constantly ask too dark.
* Do not let the baby sleep with you. Once you are aware of this privilege will be very difficult to get change. You can have it in a crib or bassinet “near your bed.
* If you have a cradle, put it in her when she is drowsy but awake. Draws his last waking memory should be the cradle and not the presence of parents or the food. He must learn to sleep alone.

Two to four months

* Move the crib to a separate room.
* Reduce as soon as possible the number of shots at night.
* Do not wake the child at night to feed. Expect him to ask for your food.

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* Give the child a stuffed toy.
* Leave the door open nursery.
* During the day give affection to the child when expressing fear of separation.