5 Tips for Overcoming Sleep Problems in Toddlers

Toddlers often have problems in bed like a sudden terbangung at midnight or fussy when it's time to sleep.

adahal according to pediatrician at Loyola University Health System, Dr. Hannah Chow, said that if the child has a lack of sleep then it will have an impact on the stress, difficulty concentrating, and causing problems at school.

Besides lack of sleep can also create headaches and cause the child to negative view on life.

Reporting from thestir.cafemom, no sleep problems in infants can be overcome with some tips below:

1. Waking up too early
Normally the children woke up at 5:30 to 07:00 but some children wake up too early so that when they sleep less than other children. The solution, block the morning light, muffled noise from the street, set the alarm to wake the child set the time to get used to wake up when the alarm goes off, and sleep early.

2. Refuse nap
Children need time to nap, but they are easily distracted and disturbed when viewing the activity outside, for example when their brothers were busy doing other activities, so that they would be more interested in other activities and make a lot of reasons for rejecting a nap.

If it continues like this, the child will continue to reject the nap until no nap at all. The solution, let the children to bed early in order to make it feel less sleep so the child will ask for a nap by itself.

Familiarize also invite children to sports or playing outside the house in the morning, the fresh air that is inhaled to soothe the child and 60 minutes before it was time to nap, try to leave a child in the room and give the child the opportunity to sleep by itself without stimulation.

3. Hard to sleep
Many children who experience difficulty sleeping and could only sleep if it is forced or accompanied by their parents. Whereas since a toddler, the child must be accustomed to sleep regularly and used to sleep by itself.

So the way to make children become more tractable and drowsiness are:

First, make sure all the electronics switched off 60 minutes before bedtime.
Secondly, for children who are still whining request accompanied then leave the child gradually, for example in 1-3 days accompanied by sitting beside the bed until the child fell asleep, 4-6 days to accompany the child from the middle of the room (rooms) let you within the bed children, keep a distance of 7-9 days up to the door of the room, 10-12 days to accompany a child from outside the room door.
4. Waking up in the middle of the night
Children who wake up at night and can not sleep again, will usually wake their parents or family members so as to make others lose their sleep time.

Then how to solve it? First, make sure the child is not the lack of sleep, able to soothe themselves, and parents can train or guide the child to go back to sleep by itself.

Guiding children to sleep can calm her down and give positive words that make children feel more secure and comfortable.

You can also look for things that will make them feel at ease with itself, for example, give the doll to be embraced so that when they have trouble sleeping or wake up at night, they will not ask for help from others to accompany or comforting.

5. Many requests before bedtime
Children are often fussy to delay bedtime, for example by asking for a hug, ask for a snack, ask for this and that to feel tired and increasingly difficult to sleep in the next night. The solution, try to determine the time sleeping and explain that it is time the alarm sounds entering the room.

At first you might have trouble, because the child will continue to seek attention and a lot of requests, so it's time to make rules with consequences, or try to ignore their requests so that they understand there is no point in continuing to postpone bedtime if the alarm was sounded.

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