How To Put A Child To Bed?

How Many Hours a Day to Sleep a Little Kid?

Newborn babies sleep for 16-20 hours a day, do not know the difference between day and night. Usually two hours after awakening they are ready to sleep again.

Infants From 9-12 hours of sleep at night and fall asleep several times during the day for 2-4 hours. Babies of this age - very busy people (all day learn to sit, stand, walk), tired in the evening, they quickly fall asleep.

Children 1-3 years of sleep for 12-13 hours a day. Most of the kids at the age of 18 months, refuse the second day of sleep, at this stage, they may have problems with sleep at night.

Create a Ritual

The two-year grand-daughter is very difficult to lay down. The evening begins moods, crying, girl several times getting out of bed in the room and resort to adults. Maybe it's some kind of sleep disorder?

Normalize the departure baby to sleep is not too difficult. Here are a few rules.

1. Make sure that the baby sleep all conditions. Keep the room where the baby sleeps, cool temperature: 18-20 degrees. Take care that it does not interfere with lights and loud noises. The bed should not be too soft and without a pillow. Do not leave for the night in a bed fluffy things and toys.
2. Establish a clear timetable for sleep: put your baby to bed at the same time and in the afternoon and evening.
3. Stick to a certain order of the day, if feeding, walking and games will take place at the same time, the child will be easier to fall asleep when it's bedtime.
4. Develop a ritual bedtime. It should be 3-4 steps to be repeated day after day in the same order. Baby ritual can consist of swimming, light relaxing massage, changing into pajamas and a lullaby. For a child after a year - swimming, massages, changing into pajamas and a pair of fairy tales. Excitable, emotional child ritual is extended. For example, before you can swim to stand with him at the window, to see how the machine "go to sleep in the garage." It is important that all procedures are called the baby positive emotions, and the last part of the ritual took place in the room where he sleeps.
5. Do not change the ritual if mom always tells two stories at night, the pope should not encourage the child for good behavior and even the legend of the last football game. Times are usually heard two stories, so they should always be only two.
6. Lay the baby to bed drowsy but awake. All children under two years of waking up several times a night. If a kid learns to fall asleep alone in the evening, he wills himself to calm down and go to sleep when he wakes up in the night. If you every night rocking him in her arms, you have to do it at night, whenever he wakes up.
7. Keep the shutter speed. If the kid woke up in the night, give him 20 minutes to the fact that he could settle down and go to sleep alone. You can check to see if he needed anything, but rocking him and be with him is not worth it.
8. Sleep is needed and parents. If you're chronically not getting enough sleep, try to go to bed early, with the baby, or try to sleep with him in the afternoon.