sleep disorders A second child, according to research conducted by the Italian Society of Pediatrics, in the age group ranging from 2 to 5 years old, suffers from sleep disorders. These disorders manifest themselves with difficulty in falling asleep and staying asleep at night without frequent awakenings.
This problem, not a serious medical, not is limited exclusively to the child but, being difficult to manage, can alter the pace and the serenity of the whole family.
E ', however, important to distinguish proper from sleep disorders, sleep difficulties from the child if he is sick (fever, chills, cough) or if he sleeps badly because grinding his teeth during sleep complaints or issues. In this case, to what continues to sleep, the child should be left to rest in peace, because these habits are my own and tend to disappear with time.
The same behavior should be taken in case the child would wake in the middle of the night screaming and his eyes open wide. This phenomenon, called "Pavor Nocturnus" amounts to a crisis of terror causes not well understood. It is important not to wake him violently, but gently reassured and calm. The crisis goes alone and has no consequences, indeed, almost always retains the child's perception or memory.
Sleep disorders tend to disappear spontaneously after 5 years of age, but can be improved according to certain rules of behavior that facilitate relaxation and thus the night.
rules that can help regulate the sleep-wake cycle are as follows in order of effectiveness:
1) Schedule: The child should be accustomed to going to bed at the same time. This rule helps
the child to make sure that your biological clock to learn to operate according to a precise rhythm.
2) Habits of the evening: the child, at least 2 hours before attempting to sleep, should not make games that can shake it (fight, somersaults), and also should be created around him a relaxing atmosphere, soft lighting, noise background (if you can not avoid them), reading a fairy tale with bass and conciliatory.
This rule helps the child not to have a dangerous accumulation of adrenaline that is not conducive to sleep.
3) The child should not eat an evening meal or too rich, with a heavy foods, or too parsimonious. This rule helps
not so much As the baby to sleep with him staying asleep that night, digestion problems, could stop. A meal is insufficient, in contrast, can create their own problems at the stage of falling, as the feeling of hunger does not help relaxation.
4) If the child accepts them, it would be desirable to precede sleep with a hot drink, a glass of milk, chamomile tea, a relaxing herbal tea.
This rule, as well as to relax your child for calming properties of drink described, functions as "spoils" that predisposes the child to a good night's sleep.
5) Try to create around the baby sleep rituals fixed for each family, depending on your needs, can 'build. An example would be a hot tub and relaxing at the same time.
This rule helps the child to enter psychological perspective that is now going to sleep and that day is over.
6) Never let the baby sleep in parents bed and then take him to his room.
This rule seeks to avoid this wrong habit that could cause other problems. In fact, if the child were to suddenly wake up and find themselves in the place where you are asleep may incur a small crisis of anxiety and fear that alienate sleep.
It 's very common for implementing this rule either by the parent, very difficult. In fact, the child may start to cry because of the posting. At this point you should leave your child in the room, obviously accompanied by a little light antibuio, to cry for 1 minute, then go in, reassure and succeed. If you still cry, you wait, this time 2 minutes before coming back and reassure him and succeed. With each return, the time intervals must be growing. Usually within 7 / 15 days, the child learns to overcome the anguish of separation from parents.
