Children Healthy Care

Treatment

The essential thing is the parental support, emotional encouragement and motivation to overcome this situation. Avoid punishments and reprimands aggravating the problem.

Parents should take an attitude of understanding and patience but at the same time, firmly. Must be maintained at all costs, a sleep onset time which must be fulfilled irreversibly allowing few modifications.

Parents should keep the child sleep in their bed but may make the granting of sleep, in bed with one of his brothers, for example. It can accept sleep with a light on or open door.

Avoid TV programs which have any degree of violence.
It can offer a night swim, a weak light or a previous moment of conversation before sleep. In some children does start reading a story making it easier to put sleepy.

Only your doctor can authorize the use of diphenhydramine or diazepam in a few cases.

SLEEP DISORDERS

The experiences that most influence whether the child has sleep disorders are:
Accidents
Sickness.
Separation or absence of the mother (labor, travel, etc).
Maternal Depression.
Sleeping in bed with parents.
Ambivalent or contradictory maternal attitude in child rearing.

Many of these children during the day or annoying irritable temperament. Sleeping problems may occur as an expression of family difficulties or as a product of family anxiety.
Older children may have, temporarily, fear or anxiety about the possible presence of noise at night, thieves, kidnappers. I do not always expressed openly, sometimes employing delaying tactics to go in initiating sleep. They expect parents to be asleep to just go to his room.
Children may feel that bedtime is a time when they are away from the love and care from their parents.
Separation anxiety and fear to initiate sleep often is triggered after the child has been placed in a nursery or a school starting. This situation may be exacerbated if there is marital conflict or separation.
As more children have greater awareness of what is death and fear may appear that at night, if only he could die. This situation is exacerbated if a relative has died recently.
Sleep problems can sometimes show the difficulties of the child in their performance at school.
5% of children older than 5 years has nightmares. This is more common in girls.

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.