Help your child cry themselves to sleep better

The parents of small children because of lack of sleep or crying in the night can only dream to be asleep a circuit 8. That is if they have enough time to ... dream. Usually, they are awakened by the cries of the child cry.

According to a study by Australia to evaluate interventions that the controversial "controlled crying". The principle of the method is when children cry at night, parents should not intervene now that should wait for some time then to comfort the baby. This will help the child learn self-ru.

Scientists at the hospital, Royal Melbourne children have chosen at random or mother 156 cry last night. The kids are at the age of 6 months to 1 year. These kids are having large monitoring of sleep. The mothers were divided into two groups:

-Group 1 is learning how to control the child's cries and other skills of sleep.

-Group 2 were not rehearsed.

The result is that after 2 months, the mother who has the child sleep problems in Group 2 has improved more than in Group 1 and depression status of mothers in this group also fell 45%.

According to Dr. Brett Kuhn, Director of the sleep clinic at the University of Nebraska (us), this is the only measures proved effective. However, not my parents would also accept it because many people could not endure when you cry.

Opponents claim that this method will cause anxiety for both parents and child. But Dr. Kuhn said, most of the babies learned how to reassure yourself that don't need the help of parents in less than 1 week. He said: "the idea of the method is to make the child that has you on the side, but not cause for excitement by stroking or vibration, closing lullaby. Visit night will become tedious and baby will understand that does not deserve to take successful because of that. Absolutely no evidence showing that the child be put to cry will get hurt ".

Feber techniques can apply to children who are not yet sleeping asleep night when six months old, and can be changed to suit the needs of each family.

Feber techniques:

* Created for baby bedtime routines right now.

* When the baby began to cry, wait 1-2 minutes before coming to soothe. Touch and talk to the baby as little as possible. Don't wake the baby and also closing do not turn on the lights.

* Leave the room when the baby stop crying. Next, if the baby crying, please wait 3-4 minutes, and the next, then wait 5-6 minutes. Memory is not closing up baby and no lights.

* Continue this exercise until your baby asleep. Some parents may wait up to 10 minutes before stepping into the room, but who can wait 15 minutes and longer.=

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