Sleep Patterns of Infants Aged 3-6 Months
Currently you should no longer wake up every night 2-3 pm. When it reaches the age of 3 or 4 months, most babies sleep 15 hours a day. 10 hours in the evening and the rest is divided into three time sleeping during the day (this amount will be reduced to 2 times the time to sleep when your baby aged 1 year). You still wake up once or twice at night to feed on early stages of this age, but when your baby is 6 months old, he was physically capable of sleeping through the night. How does your baby sleep is highly dependent on what he learned about sleep and the pattern in previous ages.
But not too late, you can train him form good sleep patterns at this age, by the way:
When your baby is still a new baby, you mark the time of sleep with
watch for signs of drowsiness which he pointed out (rub eyes, pulling ears, etc.). At an older age, you should begin to determine the time sleeping at night and by noon the same, as forming the pattern of sleep. Hours of good sleep for babies is between 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; more soluble than that time, your child will usually fatigue, and difficulty sleeping. Infants may be
do not look tired late at night - otherwise the baby will look
energetic. But trust me: There are certain signs which will
shown if he passed his sleeping hours. You can also specify the same time as determining nap bedtime.
If you have not done this before, it's time to start a routine before bed (usually at night). For example, cleaning the baby, changed his clothes, laid in bed, reading a bedtime story, give a kiss goodnight. Routines are performed in the same order every night, will form a habit and consistency in children.
If your baby tends to sleep more than 10-12 hours every night,
He woke in the morning, so that biological clock back to normal. Baby
need to follow the pattern of regular sleep-wake and gather strength during naps. He woke every morning at the same hour, in this way, you make it rest every afternoon at the same time.
When the new baby was a baby, woke up at midnight and sleep patterns negatively - depending on the caress, pat - is a sleeping problem at hand. But when reaching the age of 3-6 months, infants are faced with difficulty falling asleep.
If your baby is difficult to fall asleep at night, make sure he did not sleep too late. If it is not the case, then it might be your baby develop a sleep pattern of a negative. Today, children must learn to sleep alone, not because he patted, stroked, or allowed to suck a pacifier.
Objectives developed at this age is to begin assert bedtime. In this way, when the child awoke at night, he will not seek breast milk to make it back to sleep.
Jodi Mindell: Remove the feeding habits at bedtime, so the baby does not associate feeding with bedtime. During the suckling baby is not connected to bedtime, you could well make sure that when your child woke up in the middle of the night, really only because he was hungry. Not because it takes a mere appeasement to go back to sleep. Another step that can be done is to awaken and feed your baby before you go to sleep.
Currently you should no longer wake up every night 2-3 pm. When it reaches the age of 3 or 4 months, most babies sleep 15 hours a day. 10 hours in the evening and the rest is divided into three time sleeping during the day (this amount will be reduced to 2 times the time to sleep when your baby aged 1 year). You still wake up once or twice at night to feed on early stages of this age, but when your baby is 6 months old, he was physically capable of sleeping through the night. How does your baby sleep is highly dependent on what he learned about sleep and the pattern in previous ages.
But not too late, you can train him form good sleep patterns at this age, by the way:
- Set the sleep time of night and day
When your baby is still a new baby, you mark the time of sleep with
watch for signs of drowsiness which he pointed out (rub eyes, pulling ears, etc.). At an older age, you should begin to determine the time sleeping at night and by noon the same, as forming the pattern of sleep. Hours of good sleep for babies is between 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; more soluble than that time, your child will usually fatigue, and difficulty sleeping. Infants may be
do not look tired late at night - otherwise the baby will look
energetic. But trust me: There are certain signs which will
shown if he passed his sleeping hours. You can also specify the same time as determining nap bedtime.
- Establish a bedtime routine
If you have not done this before, it's time to start a routine before bed (usually at night). For example, cleaning the baby, changed his clothes, laid in bed, reading a bedtime story, give a kiss goodnight. Routines are performed in the same order every night, will form a habit and consistency in children.
- the morning Wake your child
If your baby tends to sleep more than 10-12 hours every night,
He woke in the morning, so that biological clock back to normal. Baby
need to follow the pattern of regular sleep-wake and gather strength during naps. He woke every morning at the same hour, in this way, you make it rest every afternoon at the same time.
- Difficulties that may arise
When the new baby was a baby, woke up at midnight and sleep patterns negatively - depending on the caress, pat - is a sleeping problem at hand. But when reaching the age of 3-6 months, infants are faced with difficulty falling asleep.
If your baby is difficult to fall asleep at night, make sure he did not sleep too late. If it is not the case, then it might be your baby develop a sleep pattern of a negative. Today, children must learn to sleep alone, not because he patted, stroked, or allowed to suck a pacifier.
- Feeding at night
Objectives developed at this age is to begin assert bedtime. In this way, when the child awoke at night, he will not seek breast milk to make it back to sleep.
Jodi Mindell: Remove the feeding habits at bedtime, so the baby does not associate feeding with bedtime. During the suckling baby is not connected to bedtime, you could well make sure that when your child woke up in the middle of the night, really only because he was hungry. Not because it takes a mere appeasement to go back to sleep. Another step that can be done is to awaken and feed your baby before you go to sleep.