Newborn babies have a long and deep sleep due to incomplete brain development, low excitability of cerebral cortex and nerve cells, poor endurance and easy fatigue. The sleeping time and times of the baby are in direct proportion to the age of the baby. The younger the baby is, the more the sleeping time and times will be. That is to say, we often see that the newborn has 20-22 hours of sleep in a day except for feeding, changing diapers, and bathing.
According to some statistics, 90% of the time of a baby's first week of life is spent in sleep. Sleep can protect the baby from external interference, improve the physiological functions of the body, and fully develop. This is a normal, physiological self-protection phenomenon of the baby, and protect the baby's fragile brain cells from excessive external stimulation. Sleep is so important that some babies will sleep for a while when they are breastfeeding in order to meet their sleep requirements.
Breastfeeding is a labor for baby. It takes a lot of effort to suck the nipple. In addition, when feeding, the baby is snuggled in the mother's arms, which is warm, comfortable and safe. The baby will really enjoy a good sleep environment, but the sleep at this time is often not completely quiet. When you pull out the nipple or pacifier, the baby will wake up.
The baby suckles and sleeps
In order to make the baby sleep faster, some mothers especially like to let the baby take milk when he is asleep, and have formed the bad habit that the baby can fall asleep only after taking milk. This is wrong and has a great impact on the baby.
1. It is easy to cause caries of deciduous teeth
The amount of saliva secreted during sleep would have reduced the function of oral cavity cleaning. Milk fermented in the mouth for a long time would damage the structure of the deciduous teeth, and also cause bacteria to breed and affect oral health.
2. Easy to suck and choke
When the baby is asleep, he is not conscious. At this time, the assistance of the throat muscles of the breast feeding mouth is not enough, which can not effectively protect the trachea. It is easy to make the milk seep into the mouth and cause the danger of choking.
3. Reduce appetite
When the baby sleeps, he is full unconsciously. When the baby wakes up, he has no sense of hunger in his mind, so seeing food will reduce his appetite in the future.
4. It is easy to suffocate the baby
The baby with the nipple is sleeping close to the mother. If the mother is overtired and sleeps soundly at night, she will unconsciously turn over and oppress the baby. However, the baby has no resistance, which can often cause the baby to suffocate and die.
5. Develop passive psychological behavior
Human beings seek for things because they need them, eat because they are hungry, dress because they are cold, and seek knowledge because they do not understand. This is how the psychological behavior model is gradually developed. The baby suckles and sleeps, and is fed passively. Even the most basic animal feeding behavior is not perfect. What's more, how about cultivating the initiative and enterprising mentality of seeking knowledge, development, competition and victory in the society? Therefore, it is necessary to develop the habit of active feeding instead of passive giving.
How does the baby nurse and sleep?
First of all, when feeding, if you find your baby is sleepy, you can gently rub his earlobe or flick his foot with your fingers to wake him up and continue feeding. If the baby doesn't wake up, don't force him to sleep in the crib. After he wakes up, he can continue to feed.
After four or five consecutive times, the baby will sleep for a long time or even stay awake for four or five hours due to several times of sucking. It is not necessary to wake him up at this time. He will wake up when the baby is hungry. Although the feeding schedule is disturbed, it will not affect the baby's milk intake, and will not affect the baby's development when hungry. In fact, this feeding method is "on-demand feeding". When the baby is full moon, the situation of sleeping after feeding will gradually change, and it is not too late to establish the habit of feeding on time.
When an experienced mother is feeding, she will constantly stimulate the baby's sucking. When she feels that the baby has stopped sucking, she will gently move the nipple or rotate the nipple, and the baby will continue to suck again. If necessary, she can also gently pinch the baby's ear or pat the baby's cheek, flick the bottom of the foot, give him some arousal stimulation, extend the excitement time, and make the baby eat enough milk, Let your baby sleep well only after he is full, and cultivate good feeding habits.
