Ideally, your baby learn to sleep alone from infancy. The success of this learning will occur when we realize that we can not sleep because of the baby. If we help always rocking, or while passing it along to deprive him of the great opportunity to learn to "sleep."
It is as if we tried to protect to the extent that they will not fall when they begin to walk, when the "fall" that will teach you to handle that skill.
Imagine all the work involved in coming to a new world, set the day and night. Being in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, the baby sleeps during physical activity and when the mother goes to bed is when the baby begins to kick and move. Those first weeks of age are not easy. However, we know that newborns sleep most of the time (16 ½ hours), the rest are awake. Every two hours after the baby wakes up we should lay him back (is the length enduring alertness).
As they grow, the length should not extend for about four hours.
What if we spent that period?
Let's put it this way: Babies are not able to let us know people with language: "Mom, I exceeded, you should have me lie down to sleep for a couple of hours." What it can do is stop mourn and collapse when they can not more.
When we spend the limited time period, the baby tends to over stimulated and will cost much more to reconcile the dream. If we "read" their sleep signals in time, surely it would have stayed away. For two months a baby her mother says: "It has not been asleep all day!" Means that not induced nap in time and the child is exhausted by the accumulation of deficits of hours needed sleep.
This results in a "resistance" to sleep, what triggers a "cascade effect": The fewer hours of sleep is more difficult to sleep, creating a damaging vicious circle.
On the contrary, the more the child can sleep sleep will cost less and be more alert when awake. Did you know that since 1925, Dr. Lewis Terman (father of the IQ test Stanford-Binet) published in his studies, that gifted children were those who slept more (Weissbluth, 1987).
Is not that what we want for our children, who are smart and achieve the best?
Besides good food, is its role as fathers and mothers to teach them that sleep is very important.
Routine is the key to learning. When you get up in the morning after drinking milk can sit in the bouncer and watch them while you are eating breakfast.
Talk, sing and gócenlo. After the bath, which usually induces sleep, we could use for massaging the whole body. Shew that it is time to sleep, baby making music or classical music, closing the blinds, preparing the environment. If breast-fed or bottle, it's very likely fall asleep. Place in the cradle and attach pillows to replace his arms.
If you were to wake up, rub the baby's face in the crib, give pats on the back or buttocks and hum to go to sleep.
If you rocked in the rocking chair, rocking stop long before you run fast asleep, then carefully places it in the cradle.
If a baby is taking a nap if I have to eat, according to experts, is to let him sleep. Obviously because your body is sleeping you need to.
The same routine is repeated with the rest of naps and bedtime. The hardest time is when the parents reach their work and want to be with your baby. This is where we must put the priorities, if it is true we want to play, at the expense of sleep and the baby's health.
Believe me there will be many opportunities to play. Children work routines and if we get your sleep pattern is affected. The other day, I went to visit my nephew and even though I arrived early to nap, play me and spurred me on and it cost him to take his nap and usually does. The routine has an important role in these early stages.
Many parents comment that solved the sleep problems carrying the baby to bed. There is literature that supports this method as a way of unification. How rich is thrown away and cuddle in bed with Mom and Dad! Other sleep experts recommend that alone will not only learn a natural ability but it reinforces the concept of security. The message sent by the mother when they learn to sleep in his crib is "I love you very much, but you and I have to rest." "You can do it by yourself, you can and I congratulate you."
As they grow they learn to cope with fears of darkness, monsters and other factors that are normal in the development stages as they grow, compared to children who depend on others to sleep.
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