The baby sleeps pretty much all day and night for the first three or four weeks after it is born. It only wakes up to eat when it is hungry. After this time, each time it wakes up gets longer, so it sleeps less often but for longer periods at a time.
In the first few weeks of life, the baby's natural tendency to sleep should not be disturbed. However, once this time has passed, it's important to make sure the baby sleeps at regular times, or else it will sleep too much during the day and have sleepless nights. The child should get used to sleeping in the middle of the day, before dinner, for about two hours. If it's put to bed too late in the day, it will always lead to a bad night.
The baby should sleep with its parent at first. It has to do this because its body temperature is low and it can't make much heat. If, on the other hand, the child has trouble sleeping, it must be taken from its mother's bed and cared for by another woman right away. The child will be brought back to its mother early in the morning to be nursed. This is necessary to keep the mother's health from getting worse, which would happen quickly if she didn't get enough sleep. The baby would also suffer because the milk would be affected by the mother's bad health.
After a month or six weeks, a healthy child can sleep alone in a cradle or cot, as long as it has enough clothes, the room is warm enough (60 degrees), and the cot is not in a place where it is exposed to cold air currents. It is especially important to pay attention to these points while sleeping when the body's ability to produce heat and, as a result, its ability to keep its temperature steady are at their lowest. This means that being exposed to cold is especially harmful. Inflammation of an organ inside the body happens all too often in these situations, but the real cause of the disease is never thought to be the cause. Here, though, it's important to avoid a common mistake: covering the baby in its cot with too many clothes, putting a muslin handkerchief over its face, and then pulling the bed's draperies close together. The goal is to keep the baby warm with clean air. It should be able to open its mouth freely, and the air in the whole room should be warm enough for the baby to breathe easily. This means that in the winter, there should always be a fire in the nursery.
For the reasons listed above, the child should sleep on a feather bed at least until he or she is two years old. But after the sixth month, the pillow should be made of horsehair. This is because the baby starts teething at this time, and it's very important to keep the head cool.
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The child should be able to sleep for an hour or so before dinner until he or she is three or four years old. After this time, it can be slowly stopped, but it's important to remember that children need more sleep than adults do throughout their whole lives. So, the child should be put to bed every night between 7 and 8, and if it is healthy, it will sleep well until morning. But there is no one-size-fits-all rule for how many hours of sleep a person should get since some people need more and some need less. The most important thing is that the child goes to sleep at the same time every night. Nothing should get in the way of this, and the child should be left alone to sleep until it wakes up on its own the next morning. This is enough rest.
How much sleep a person needs to stay healthy depends on how their body is doing and what their habits are. The vast majority of an infant's time is spent sleeping. Children sleep twelve or fourteen hours. A schoolboy is usually ten years old. When you're young, you spend a third of the day sleeping. Many people don't sleep more than four, five, or six hours when they are old.
It's cruel for a mother to put her child's health at risk so she can feel good about herself, but this happens a lot when it comes to sleep. A party is planned for the evening, and the baby is kept awake for hours after it should have gone to sleep so that it can be shown off, petted, and admired. So, he doesn't get as much sleep as usual, and what little sleep he does get is broken and doesn't refresh him. He wakes up the next day feeling tired and worn out.
Once awake, it shouldn't be allowed to stay in bed any longer. Instead, it should be pushed to get up right away. This is how to get into the habit of getting up early, which prevents many serious problems that parents are not aware of, improves both mental and physical health, and is said to be the most important habit for living a long life.
A child should never be woken up suddenly from sleep. This excites the brain and makes the heart beat faster, and if it happens often, it could have serious effects. The transition from sleep to wakefulness should always be slow.
At this age, the bed the child sleeps on should be a mattress, not a feather bed. In a feather bed, the body sinks deep into the bed and is completely buried in feathers. This unnatural level of warmth weakens the body, especially the skin, and makes the child more sensitive to the feeling of cold. Then, instead of making up the bed as soon as the person gets out of it in the morning, while the body's nighttime breath is still on it, the bedsheets should be thrown over the backs of chairs, and the mattress should be shaken up well, and the window should be left open for a few hours so that the apartment can get plenty of fresh air.
It is also very important that the child not sleep with people who are sick or very old. If at all possible, the child should always sleep alone.
