Examples show the variety of causes of childhood sleep disorders. Therefore, it is worth citing here a number of considerations that the mother can check in each specific case, and her observations may subsequently turn out to be important for the doctor and his assessment of the situation. These considerations can be formulated as follows.
What is the general health of the child day and night? Are there flatulence, constipation, sweating, chills, envy, jealousy, discontent, etc.?
How does the mother feel? Maybe she is overworked, unhappy, misunderstood by others, tired at work, depressed and generally at her limit? Maybe she has troubles with her father-in-law and mother-in-law, household members, neighbors, or worries about the future and fears?
What is the child's environment: bed, noise, apartment, radio and TV, toys?
Maybe a temporary specific need (for example, during an illness he was taken to his mother's bed) turned into an obsessive habit for him?
To illustrate this approach, we will give a few more examples.
Perhaps the dinner consisted of cellulose-containing foods that cause flatulence. Or in the warm season, the child wore a warm hat. Or a little sister is learning to walk (a typical moment when feelings of jealousy can arise). Constant twitching and inhibitions can also lead to night worries. For example, if the family lives in an apartment where it is forbidden to shout, otherwise they may be evicted.
If parents, pondering all these considerations, find out what is the cause of sleep disturbances, then the next question arises: what to do?
