A guide to analyze sleeping patterns of sleeping babies and make the same body clock as an adult earlier

ByRichard Anderson

Newborns who have just been born tend to repeat a short sleep regardless of day and night because the body clock is not made, and parents will be woken up repeatedly by the baby. Parenting Science, which supports dads and mothers with babies, analyzes details of sleeping patterns and sleeping rhythm of such newborns from many papersSurvival Guide"We publish it as.

Newborn sleep patterns: A survival guide
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◆ Sleep Pattern of Newborns
Neonates repeat sleeping from 30 minutes to 4 hours regardless of day and night. There are REM sleep and non-REM sleep in adults' sleep, but the sleep of the newborn is divided into "static sleep" and "dynamic sleep", and its characteristics seem to be slightly different from REM sleep and non-REM sleep. Dynamic sleep is a sleep in which an eyelid moves with a crackle, a rhythm of breathing is not constant, a moving sleep with a shallow sleep, and the newborn has a long sleeping time and rises immediately with a slight noise I will excuse you.

Sleep rhythm
Adult sleep isCircadian rhythm, It is managed by the biological clock. Because the biological clock is a 25-hour cycle, it will be shifted by 1 hour if it is originally, that is, the time to get sleepy is delayed by 1 hour every day, but the body clock is reset by taking sunlight in the morning It is said that he keeps the life rhythm of time.

ByJoe St. Pierre

The baby 's sleeping rhythm is different from adults. When the baby is still inside her mother 's stomach, when the mother gets up, the heartbeat of the baby gets faster, and as you sleep the heart' s heartbeat becomes slower. This phenomenon is the supply of sleeping hormones supplied through the placentaMelatoninThis melatonin is controlling the baby 's body clock.

However, immediately after birth, a baby can not make melatonin by himself and can not manage the body clock well. How is the baby 's sleep rhythm controlled? It seems that the baby' s sleep rhythm is controlled at intervals of "breast feeding", "digestion" and "hungry". Breastfeeding is done about every 3 hours, so the baby sleeps for several hours and wakes up and repeated breast feeding. And 3 to 4 months after birth, a body clock similar to that of an adult is completed, a sleeping rhythm is formed in the daytime where it wakes up and sleeps at night.

However, there is a method to advance the time to form the same body clock as an adult, and it can be confirmed from the following.

Do not give irritation at night
Even if the baby hungry and get up at night, breast feeding should be done as quietly as possible. If possible, it is best to nurse your baby as if it is half asleep.

ByJames Leocadi

◆ Baby to remember the pattern of morning and night light
Adult human will reset biological clock with sunlight. It is said that a baby will form a body clock faster by giving the baby a shining light during the day and darkening at night. There is also research that it tends to sleep soundly at night by properly shining the light during the day.

◆ Massage
There seems to be a study that a baby who received massage for 14 days from 10th birth has a tendency to sleep with the same sleep pattern as adults than a baby who did not receive a massage. Babies who received massage for 12 weeks after birth said that the amount of secretion at night during melatonin, a hormone that encourages sleep, is higher than that of babies who did not receive massage. However, the relationship between massage and melatonin secretion at night is not clarified, and further research is required.

ByShira gal

◆ When to supply breast milk
Breast milk is necessary for the body to make melatoninTryptophanIt contains one kind of amino acid, and if breastfeeding is given to a baby before going to bed at night, there is an effect to hasten the time until the baby falls asleep.