Slowly it scratching in the throat. This is the ninth Time that the mom “sleep, baby, sleep” sings. And the young child? Awake the mom looks at it, claps happily in the hands: “again!” Sleep doesn’t want it. And the mom doesn’t know how to help herself. So she is not alone.

One of the oldest known lullaby is about 5000 years old and dates back to Babylonia. As long as parents struggle already to the sleep of their children? Probably longer than that. “The most common problems with falling Asleep of the child, go back to three causes,” says Oskar Jenni, a Senior physician of the Department of development paediatrics at the Zurich children’s hospital. “The children have no regular daily rhythm, their sleep is overrated needs, or you have not learned to independently fall asleep.” Jenni conducts research on sleep behaviour and sleep disorders in childhood.

“The need for sleep is individual and can vary from child to child.”Oskar Jenni, children doctor

guides, and information from the Internet can confuse parents. For example, if it is there, a four-year should sleep twelve or thirteen hours, and the young but already after eight, at the latest, ten hours wide awake. “The need for sleep is individual and can vary from child to child quite strong,” says Oskar Jenni. to put

The son or daughter early to bed or no longer, frustrated by the Small. It is not tired, can’t deal with in the bed but even. In the ugly Situation it makes his parents more and more vocal.

to get The child in this case, to the parent’s bed, however, is not a good idea: So you can get used to the Small to the proximity of the parents when going to Sleep and won’t be able to without you fall asleep. Instead, mothers and fathers should find out how much the rest of the night your child needs in fact. This allows you Protocol with the help of a Sleep.

on The Internet it is, for example, on the Website of the children’s hospital in Zurich is available for free. For seven days the parents make a note of the exact … Doc Fund the recovery times of your Little one – and so on their individual retirement needs.

A fixed daily rhythm is also important for falling Asleep. He conveys to the young a sense of when to Sleep adequate and on time. Just when the family life is due to professional or other obligations, always in a mess and the child comes to 18 o’clock, two hours later, to bed.

sequences

Here small everyday rituals help immediately before bedtime. For example, the parents can, half an hour before it was supposed to go to bed, together with the child’s clothes for the next day, a picture book to read and a Cup of milk to drink. After a short time the Little one will already know the lay Out of the clothes: Now it’s off to bed. “Solid processes make the Situation for the child, predictable and donations to him in this way,” Oskar Jenni. The child will be quiet, relaxed and to sleep.

The Zubettbringen should be aware of parents on the choice of sleep aid. A child accustomed to mommy’s Hand, it can be without them, probably not again fall into sleep, when it wakes up in the middle of the night. “Therefore, parents should refrain from from the start, if possible, to sleep aid, and accustom the child to you,” says Oskar Jenni. For example, by the mom is holding the Little first of all, him, then, but a stuffed bear in the Arm and a good night wish. Thus, it is the Little in the night, Wake up easier, alone again, falling asleep – finally, the Teddy bear is still firmly in his Arm.

“It is sometimes harder for the parents than for the young, to dispense with the rituals.”Oskar Jenni, children doctor

So that the child learns to independently fall asleep, it needs a good agreement between mom and dad. Because there is no use, if one of the parents leave the young alone doze off, the other remains with him. Also patience is asked: For some children it takes longer, until they learn to independently fall asleep. In spite of fixed rituals and good sleep aid. Oskar Jenni calmed the parents: This was completely normal. “Parents should development of the children to accept and respect,” says the paediatrician.

But what to do when parents and children have already got used to the joint to fall Asleep? Now the young talent is getting older and bigger – but without the mom not, and never has eye. “The parents should lead the child gradually to the new sleep behaviour,” advises Oskar Jenni. Previous bedtime rituals, not from today to tomorrow through a new be replaced, but step by step, so that the Little one falls asleep at the end without mom and dad’s presence.

distance and proximity

Slept, the child is so far in bed with parents, sleeping well first, the mommy or the daddy on a mattress next to the bed of the child in the nursery. Only close to the bed, then getting further and further away. Until the parents wish in the end, only a good night and the child in his room alone.

Each step requires fine feeling – no one should be rushed, and by the next, replaced introduced. This is not only for children but also for mother and father. “It is sometimes harder for the parents than for the young, to dispense with rituals such as the common falling Asleep – especially when the child is crying in a gradual transition,” weiss Oskar Jenni from his sleep consultations with parents and children.

In this case, mom and dad need to use the tears of their Little stand. But if it is too heavy for you? “Then you can sleep in the bedroom temporarily remain in the nursery for their offspring,” says Oskar Jenni. With considered close and distant parents to do their offspring Good: Just to help the development of your children and allow you to put the safe steps into self-employment.

(the Swiss family)

Created: 28.02.2019, 20:15 Uhr