My child cannot sleep: does he have a sleep debt?
Does your child have sleep problems?Perhaps he has a sleep debt that he cannot recover.We take stock of these sleep difficulties.
Sleep is a whole challenge for babies.It often happens that our child is reluctant to fall asleep, cry during the night or even lighten his naps.The reasons can be multiple: dental thrusts, sleep regressions, infant colic...If these disorders are frequent and common in baby development, their extension may lead to it to have a sleep debt. Comment se caractérisent ces dettes de sommeil ? Quelles en sont les conséquences et comment y remédier ? On fait le point avec Kelly Champinot, experte sur le sommeil de l'enfant et fondatrice du site Bébé & Confidences.
Sleep debts in children: a long -term disorder and a need
First of all, it is important for Kelly Champinot to make a point: "In recent years, we have been talking more and more about sleep debt but many parents wrongly use it to characterize certain issues related to sleep oftheir toddler ".
Symptoms in baby: How do I know if my child has a sleep debt?
If your baby is in sleep debt then he must present all the following characteristics:
As a general rule, all moments of sleep of the child will therefore be more complicated and we can quickly find ourselves trapped in a vicious circle: indeed, the less we sleep, the less we manage to sleep!So we have to help our boud'chou at all costs sleeping.
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"When baby is too tired, his body will release cortisol (awakening hormone) to allow him to fight against fatigue even if he needs to sleep.We can easily understand how the vicious circle can be set up, "explains the specialist.
4 months, 12 months, 3 years old...What is the number of hours and the ideal sleep time of baby per age?
In order to best determine if your child has sleep difficulties linked to a debt, it may be interesting to compare with the "ideal" number of daily sleep hours (night sleep and naps) depending on the age ofYour child.
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Can this sleep need in children have harmful consequences on their health?"The persistence of a lack of sleep can actually have short and long -term negative effects.In the short term, these sleep difficulties can lead to more risk of getting sick, because it is during slow sleep that the immune response takes place as effectively as possible in his body.The young child will also be less reactive and more clumsy.In the long term, these sleep problems can cause learning disabilities, even in its physical development ".
Sleeping cycle: how to catch up with sleep debt and put an overly tired baby to sleep?
How to do, as parents, to improve the quality of sleep of our little sleeper and avoid a delay?There are several ways to help him fall asleep, reassures Kelly Champinot: "You have to re-lock up a positive sleep dynamic and make your child sleep by all means.Stroller, feeding, carrying, car, rocking, presence..: all the techniques are good to make him let go ".
We can also set up an effective sleep ritual, always at the same time, to facilitate falling asleep.It can go through a soothing bath before bedtime, hug him, a massage, sing a lullaby to him or read a story.
A lire aussiAuteur : Antoine Blanchet, Journalisteavec Kelly Champinot, spécialiste du sommeil infantile Article publié le
