Children are prone to crying for no reason when they sleep at night, causing both the baby and the mother to not be able to rest well. This makes many people feel at a loss, so how can babies calm down when they are scared? This is the answer that many mothers have been searching for, let's talk about it in detail below.
How to calm down when a baby is scared
1. Scared. After a child is frightened, they often wake up from their sleep and cry at night. When a child cries, it is often accompanied by fear. In daily life, it is not difficult to find what causes a child to be frightened. The solution is to comfort the child, tell them that there is nothing to be afraid of, and temporarily avoid direct contact with objects or people that make them afraid. Gradually, the child will fall asleep peacefully.
2. Clothing and bedding factors. Covering children too thickly can cause them to become irritable and cry due to heat; If the blanket is too little, the cold stimulation can also make the child cry. If the mattress is not laid flat, or if the small clothes are too tight or the straps of the clothes hurt the child, it will make the child cry. In addition, it is also necessary to check if there is anything on the bed that is hurting or stabbing the child. Once the cause is found, the child will feel comfortable and stop crying.
3. Parents use their thumb to push from the tip of their child's thumb along the outer side of the thumb towards the base of their child's palm, doing 50-100 times; Push the fingertip of the ring finger along the palm surface towards the base of the palm for 50-100 times. Push from the wrist joint to the elbow joint along the center of the forearm palm, 20-30 times; Push 30 times from the wrist joint along the palmar side of the forearm thumb towards the elbow joint, pinch the midpoint of the horizontal line between the child's palm and wrist. Pinch the ten Xuan points on the child's fingertips, rub the Baihui points on the child's head 20-50 times, and massage the child's spine three times from bottom to top.
What are the seven taboos for baby sleep
1. The extremely quiet sleeping environment can lead to the development of poor sleep habits in children.
2. Sleeping with nipples or pacifiers can easily disrupt a child's gastrointestinal function.
3. Shaking children to sleep - Excessive shaking may cause intracranial hemorrhage in children.
4. Allowing children to sleep on their backs - Sleeping on their backs can compress the digestive organs.
5. Bedtime companionship - The feeling of disappointment when waking up can make babies cry.
6. You shouldn't sleep too long during the day - if you can't sleep well during the day, you can't sleep long at night.
7. Turning on lights during baby sleep can affect their visual development. These are some areas that parents need to pay attention to.
Having good sleep habits for babies is very beneficial for their healthy growth. So there will be no problem of how to calm the baby when they are scared. If such problems occur frequently, it will greatly affect the health of the baby. It may even harm the physical and mental health development of the baby. It can be seen that giving babies a good sleep is very important.
