How to develop a regime in a newborn
How to develop a regime in a newborn
Newborns do not have the concept of time of day,so if the mother does not start to organize the regime of the day immediately after discharge from the hospital, the child can easily confuse the day with the night. He can spend a lot of time during the day and not give his parents a rest at night.
Instructions
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To develop a mode for a newborn,daily observe the daily routine, which is convenient and comfortable for you and for him. Free feeding - at the request of the child - is now widely practiced by young mothers, but not always it helps to provide the desired regime. But the feeding on schedule, every 3-4 hours, produces a reflex: the baby has the right time to release gastric juice, he eats with appetite and eats the prescribed rate. Feeding on schedule helps to create the correct mode of the day for the newborn.
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Organize day and evening walks at the same time. Breast children usually sleep in the fresh air. If you go for a walk at the same time, the baby will develop a daytime sleep regime.
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If the child sleeps at home during the day, keep the usualthe situation. Do not pull the curtains - let the room be light, do not seek to create complete silence. So in the course of time, the child will develop an idea of the time of day.
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Putting the child at night, repeat dailythe same actions. For example, after bathing and hygienic procedures, mute the light in the room, pull the curtains, start talking quietly. Feed the child and start to pump it. Sing a lullaby. If such a ritual of going to bed becomes daily, the child will soon get used to that, after bathing, he will fall asleep.
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If a child wakes up at night for feeding,Do not turn on the light - enough muffled night light. Feed the child at night silently, do not talk to him and even more so do not laugh. After feeding, turn off the night lamp and put the child back to sleep.
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If, under any circumstances, the childthe habitual mode of the day was broken, and he began to stay awake at night, do not let him sleep too much during the day, entertain him, wear it on his hands. In other words, the child must get tired during the day to sleep well at night.
