Breastfeeding children often wake up at night, and for this they have their own reasons. Almost every family has its own rituals to calm the baby. The main methods that parents use are to eliminate the cause of the baby's anxiety and create conditions for him to which he was accustomed during his intrauterine development.
Instructions
Step 1
The baby wakes up at night when he is cold or hot, hungry or when it's time to change his diaper. Or he has night fears, because for a baby falling asleep is an incomprehensible phenomenon. Suddenly everyone disappeared somewhere, including my mother, why, why? Understand the reasons for nighttime awakenings, any mother eventually begins to share them intuitively. Accordingly, reassure the child after eliminating these causes.
Step 2
A child may often wake up and cry at night from teething. He is worried about discomfort in the mouth, the temperature may rise. In such cases, give the baby a paracetamol-based preparation for children, and lubricate the gums with an anesthetic gel. Another common cause of nighttime restlessness is abdominal pain due to gas. In this case, give your baby a light abdominal massage and a warm diaper.
Step 3
Very young children, up to three months old, worry at night for reasons that parents often cannot correctly assess and eliminate. If the child is fed, he has dry diapers, he does not feel thirsty and he does not have intestinal colic - create comfortable conditions for him, to which he is accustomed during his stay in his mother's body.
Step 4
First, swaddle the baby tightly, his free hands are an unnatural state for him. During involuntary hand movements, children are often frightened. In addition, while the child was in the uterus, he was accustomed to being cramped, but at the same time it was safe and comfortable there. Then lay it on its side, inside mom it was rolled into a ball. Placing the baby on his back will only increase his anxiety.
Step 5
Then soothe your baby with soft hissing sounds. For nine months he got used to hearing the noises of his mother's body, it will calm him down. The louder the baby cries, the harder the hiss in his ear. Give him a nipple or breast, during his intrauterine development, the child sucked fingers, this is familiar to him.
Step 6
Now, when the baby is tightly swaddled, lies on its side and with a nipple in its mouth - take it in your arms and start rocking. The range of motion should be small, you should not swing the child too much. He is more familiar with small smooth movements that he felt during his intrauterine development. Once you have eliminated the obvious causes of nighttime anxiety and created a familiar and comfortable environment for your baby, he will sleep peacefully.
