How to lull a baby quickly: 7 proven ways

Sleep is an important part of the life of a newborn baby. The baby sleeps up to 20 hours a day. But in the first weeks, when the sleep and wakefulness regimen has not yet developed, certain problems with falling asleep can be observed. The baby often cries, cannot fall asleep at night, and during the day there is lethargy, drowsiness. This is a normal phenomenon, because the mode is not developed immediately, it takes time. Therefore, young mothers need to take into account a few simple rules that will help to lay the baby quickly and effectively. This means saving energy, time and nerves.

Identify and eliminate factors that may cause discomfort in the child. This, for example, wet diapers or a diaper, hunger, colic in the abdomen, older children have pain from teething. It can also be cold or hot for the baby. Depending on the reason, you need to feed the baby, swaddle him or change the diaper, create a comfortable microclimate. If the baby bothering coliche can do light tummy massageput a warm diaper on your tummy. If a child's teeth erupt, the pain is removed special soothing gels.
Ventilate the nursery. Cool fresh air will calm the baby and the baby will fall asleep faster. If the room is too hot, the child begins to worry, he is uncomfortable. In addition, the baby begins to sweat profusely, which can lead to the appearance of painful irritations on the skin. And too dry air dries out the nasal mucosa, thus, normal breathing is disturbed, which also causes the baby anxiety.
Develop a special ritual that sets you up for sleep. This may be, for example, swimming in warm water. This procedure allows you not only to clean the baby’s delicate skin, warm water soothes, relaxes. To enhance the effect, you can add to the bathing bath herbal decoctions (if it is not contraindicated). After such a bath, the child falls asleep much faster and rarely wakes up at night.
Abandon absolute silence. Many parents turn off all household appliances while laying the baby down, talk in a whisper, trying to make sure that there are no sounds in the children's room. This is not an option. Absolute silence will not speed up the process of falling asleep. Moreover, the baby, accustomed to absolute silence, will be more susceptible to any sounds. So, in the future it will be more difficult for him to fall asleep.
Lack of bright light. When motion sickness, you need to close the curtains denser, turn off the main light sources. At the same time, there is no need to achieve complete darkness, it is enough to eliminate the bright light that distracts the baby, preventing him from falling asleep.
White noise. The rustling of leaves, rain, pouring water, unobtrusive, light noises remind the child of the sounds he heard in his mother’s womb. And this instinctively causes the crumbs a sense of calm, security. So, the baby will be better off falling asleep.
Motion sickness. The most reliable, proven way to lull a baby is to rock it in your arms. To make the process less tiring, you can swing the child sitting on the fitball or taking a comfortable position in the chair.

If you rock the baby in your arms, constantly moving around the room, the gaze of the crumbs will be fixed on certain objects. Thus, the baby learns the world around him. This is useful, but not at the time of falling asleep. It is proved that if you walk with the child in her arms clockwise, the eyes of the baby open wider. If you change the direction to the opposite, the effect will be different, the eyes are covered: the baby feels sleepy and falls asleep faster.

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