A healthy, strong and long-lasting childhood sleep -this is a great joy for parents. But very few people manage to raise a child and not spend a couple of sleepless nights. And to some of the newly-born parents, it's only possible to dream of a night dream.

So why does not the child sleep?

Reasons for anxiety and lack of babygood sleep can be set. Ideally, infants should sleep for most of the day. But why do so many parents complain that the first months after the birth of a child they absolutely can not sleep?

One of the reasons why a child does not sleep,can be colic. Worry they are most often boys and last sometimes up to 3 months of age. If the baby tries to sleep, but periodically strains his stomach, pulls his legs to him and begins to cry, then this is just the manifestation of disturbing his colic. In this case, you need to contact the pediatrician, and he will help to choose a medical product that will improve the baby's condition and give him peace of mind.

The reason why a child does not sleep, maybein an uncomfortable for the baby clothes, in the wrong mattress and bed linen. Try to buy clothes for the child only from natural fabrics, which does not have buttons and fasteners on the back or chest, and also does not restrict its movement.

Very often the child does not sleep, if in the nurseryhot and dry air. The kid sweats, feels uncomfortable and therefore can not fall asleep. In addition, because of the dryness of air in the nasal passages, crusts can form, which interfere with good air flow and make breathing difficult.

The child does not sleep during the day

Often the parents of babies, who in infancy do notsuffered from any disturbances in sleep, are very surprised when their grown-up child refuses to sleep during the day. In most cases - it's not the whims and whims of the baby, but the inability of parents to adapt and adjust to the characteristics of the growing body.

With each month the need of a child's bodyin a dream to become less. Therefore, the duration of daytime sleep should become shorter. In a year, a child can have one day's sleep lasting from 2 to 3 hours.

We are talking about the norm. But after all all children are individual, therefore also needs at them different. Of course, if laying a baby on a day's sleep does not bring anything but hysteria, and even at night the child is sleeping worse and worse, then, most likely, you do not need to torment the little man with hours of rocking, but just add a few hours in favor of a night's sleep and lay baby early.

What to do if a child asks for a parent's bed

Many young parents are faced with the fact that the child does not sleep in the crib, but when she finds himself under the cuff in mom and dad, in an adult bed, she immediately falls asleep.

What is the reason for this childish selectivity?

Most often, next to the mother, the baby feels much more comfortable than alone. The warmth of the native body, the familiar and native smell, even my mother's sniffs help the baby relax and soon fall asleep.

Sometimes adults themselves are to blame for theThe situation when the baby does not fall asleep in his bed. A huge role is played by the factor of "accustoming" the child to an adult bed. If you have not seen anything bad in a joint dream with a baby for a long time, but at one point, having decided that he is already an adult, moved him to a separate crib, then you should not be surprised at the head with which the kid will aspire back. Having found himself in unusual conditions for him, the child does not sleep and is capricious enough to attract attention and receive what he now lacks. So if you initially do not plan a long joint sleep, you do not even need to take a child to your bed for one night, thinking that nothing will happen from the exact time.