Children Healthy Care

FALLING AND THE NEWBORN

There are three phases of sleep: REM (rapid motion of the eyeballs being closed eyelids), non-REM and indeterminate. The organization and alternation of these stages is obtained just four months old. According to current theories now sleep allows the child to “remember or forget” the experiences of the previous days and that this process is necessary to facilitate learning and memory development.
The length of time the baby slept through the first few days is about 16 to 18 hours per day.
The sleep pattern is variable. Some may last for several hours without nursing or milk. Others may remain sleepy during the day and awake at night. The important thing is that in the first weeks of life we must not allow the child who breastfeeds day stay longer than two hours without sucking his mother as this is the way to ensure breastfeeding. While you should not put your young child hours we must not allow sleep all day and, instead, wake all night.
While some babies have an innate ability to sleep during the day or night sleeping capacity must be developed through training in the weeks following birth. The formation of this habit is one of the most important tasks of parents during the first months. For that to happen should try to concentrate those moments when you are awake during the day so that periods of sleep at night they move.
It is normal during sleep, the child “suck” in the air, smile, make faces of discomfort, straining, squeeze her fists, closed eyes, this “shakes” bodily movements of limbs or present intermittent spontaneous crying. It is believed that the baby may have nightmares and pleasant dreams.
During sleep the small movements can have small or “shakes” in one short leg or arm. This does not mean that this seizure. Whatever you do and which do not stop breathing is normal behavior during sleep.