My baby has been sleeping like garbage lately, especially during the day. No matter how much you try to coax him, he can't sleep. But I feel very tired and irregular. Sometimes he sleeps twice, sometimes he sleeps a night, and he wakes up frequently at night. He's really tired and almost like a dog
The signal of the baby's perception
Why did the baby suddenly become like this? Maybe he's about to 'merge'. The so-called 'simultaneous sleep' refers to reducing the number of daytime naps from two to one. This situation first occurs when the baby is 10 months old, but more often changes between 15-18 months old.
How can you determine if your baby is going through a period of wakefulness? If he suddenly experiences the following situation, it may be a signal of "co perception":
1. It's difficult to coax before bedtime, and as soon as I mention sleeping, I start to resist
2. A baby who has already developed the ability to fall asleep independently suddenly needs to struggle for a long time before falling asleep
3. Changes in sleeping time, irregular nap times in the morning and afternoon
4. Irregular sleeping frequency during the day, sometimes twice, sometimes once
5. If you sleep for a long time in the morning, it will be difficult to fall asleep in the afternoon
How do babies cope with it
The daytime is a relatively special period, lasting for at least one or two weeks, at most a month, or even longer. It often makes people feel tired and overwhelmed, so they need to be mentally prepared. The following encyclopedia will teach you how to help your baby get through the sleep period more smoothly.
Firstly, observe quietly and remain motionless. After the appearance of the co perception signal, do not take any measures first, let nature take its course, and see if it will have a significant impact on his daily routine. If it will not have a significant impact, see if the baby can get through this stage on his own. But if the daily routine becomes very chaotic, even seriously affecting the sleep time and quality at night, such as sleeping late at night, frequently waking up at night, and it is very difficult to fall asleep, then manual intervention is needed.
The intervention approach is to gradually delay the morning nap until it merges with the afternoon nap. For example, if the baby originally took a nap at 10:00, they can be stimulated to play and other ways to prevent them from sleeping. At the beginning, it can be delayed until 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, and 12:30, and eventually merged with the nap to become a nap.
After a nap, the baby's daytime sleep time may become shorter, for example, from the original 2.5-3 hours to 2-2.5 hours. This is normal, as long as the baby's mental state and other aspects are normal, there is no need to worry too much.
