When go for 1 sleep. Go to one day sleep. How to translate a child for one day sleep

One of the most frequent topics, when establishing a child's sleep, in my individual consultations, this is the establishment of the day mode.

Most often, the problems begin when going to one day sleep. The child at this time becomes overly sensitive, capricious. Mom is experiencing that the crisis creases one year, trying to lay as before on 2 sleep, and the child yells. Does not want to sleep and the real war begins.

Therefore, today a libezon about one day dream. Write your questions in the comments, I will answer.

Statistics of day dreams in children of the first year of life

Immediately agree - day sleep is needed. This is a very important element, if you want a child to have a smooth mood and good appetite.

Sleep the day helps the baby relax, calm down after stormy impressions.

During the first year of life, your child will consistently reduce the number of day dreams. Compare Table data:

Evasion from the fourth and third quiet hour, most likely, will pass smoothly and unnoticed, but the transition to 1 day sleep may complicate some difficulties.

Among them:

the age characteristics of the child (on this topic on the site there is a good article: child development by month to year \u003e\u003e\u003e);
lack of a stable day mode;
stressing situation in the family.

Important information! According to statistics, 80% of babies go to one daytime sleep from 15 to 18 months. The remaining 20% \u200b\u200ba little earlier - from year to 14 months.

Signs of readiness kid to one sleep

You can translate the baby for one day dream when it will be ready for this. Each child is individual and only you can determine by watching him, whether he is enough of one quiet hour.

For example, the crumb of your girlfriend moved at 10 to 11 months to sleep for one day dream, and yours - after a year. Variations can be counted many.

The process of transition to 1 sleep itself also proceeds from everyone unequal. One child is rebuilt sharply, but most children have a translation tightened to several months. All this is the options for the norm.

The most frequent signs of the readiness of the transition to 1 dream:

the age of the child is from 15 to 18 months;
at night, sleeps within 10 - 12 hours;
the first holiday is too short or, on the contrary, long;
the first dream is good, it's hard to lay on the second (read the article: the child wants to sleep, but can not sleep \u003e\u003e\u003e);
the baby refuses the first quiet hour and feels great;
kroch sleeps well twice per day, but in the morning wakes up before and earlier;
it is hard to put on the night (read the article on the topic: How much to put a child to sleep? \u003e\u003e.).

If you have one or more indicators at once, then it's time to think how to translate crumb to one dream, without complications.

When the child turns 10 - 11 months, it can demonstrate the first readiness signals. Do not immediately be done and change mode.

Wait.

Usually a child can reach two dreams up to 14 months.

How to translate a child for 1 dream?

When you realized that the child matured to the transition, start smoothly shift the first dream closer to the dinner with a daily interval of 30 minutes;
Your task: to get stacked from 12.30 to 13.00 and reach the duration of the attitude of the baby 2 - 2.5 hours;

Know! Children who are capable of, without whims, awake on 5 to 6 hours, are considered to be ready for one vacation.

When a child goes to one daytime sleep long and difficult, it is important for you to remember that at first he can sleep then once, then two. Thus, the baby adapts to the new mode.

Watching the crumb, try so that it is not overwhelmed;
Special attention is paid to the high-quality night sleep;
Work over evening rituals for faster flood (useful article: Rituals before bedtime \u003e\u003e\u003e);

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Stay the baby at night no later than 21.00 hours. As you know, resting until 12 o'clock in the morning most effectively. Such tactics greatly restores the forces of the body and the child the next day will be joyful and active.

The quality and amount of night and day sleep has an impact of age features:

Your one-year-old kroch learns to walk, he knows the world independently;
The nervous system dwells in exciting from emotional shocks;
Such a state characterizes the first year crisis.

Consider these moments and try more time in a quiet environment, peaceful classes.

Successful method of transition to one daily quiet hour will depend on the following circumstances:

from what sleep kid dodge: the first or second;
what time he falls asleep overnight;
can you put it before;
how much time he can awake without fatigue.

If for some reason you want to teach the baby to one daytime sleep before the deadline, then first can be successful. But then you will notice that the child has become more capricious and irritable.

This shows that he is not enough of one holiday.

Do not hurry, let the nervous system rummage and return to two day sleep.

The most difficult translation to one day sleep occurs in children who are not clear the day and not understanding boundaries.

If it is difficult for you to negotiate with the child;
Each laying turns into the battlefield;
You are tired of disobedience

In practice, it often happens that children themselves begin to give up two day dreams. Noticing such a tendency, help the baby properly organize the routine.

Your main goal is in the ability to catch a moment, adjust the time of night and dayfasts, as well as make the transition as easily and painlessly as possible. Follow the tips, ask questions and everything will succeed!

In the first years of life, sleeping the child's sleep is constantly changing. Most babies sleep a lot, making short wake and snack breaks. Then gradually biorhythms are adjusted, and the child goes into two day sleep. Most children refuse the first day sleep aged 12 to 24 months. As you can see, there is a pretty big run, which clearly demonstrates us: age is not the only criterion by which we can understand that the child is time to translate to one day dream. This is what Elizabeth Paintley advises, the mother of four children and the author of many books about education.

How to understand that the child still needs two day sleep

- the child has no year
- When you put it, he resists, plays in the crib, but in the end falls asleep at least an hour or more
- When you go somewhere on the car or public transport, the baby is easily falling asleep
- if for some reason the child misses one daytime sleep, then he whirls and demonstrate signs of fatigue before ordinary
- The child in life changes (the disease, the birth of junior sibling, the beginning of classes in developments or nursery), which adversely affect the quality of his sleep - both day and night
"The child can skip sleep when you are on a trip or just found yourself outside the house (for example, in line in the clinic), but in the usual mode of the house falls asleep as usual.

What is dangerous too early transition to one day sleep

According to Paintley, the crisis period of two years old, the so-called Terrible TWOS, is not explained by the fact that children are simply, but by the fact that parents too early deprive them of one of two day dreams. She believes that many Toddlers are transferred to one dream during the period when they are not ready for this (strong sleep in the morning you need a kid for the full brain development). And react to such interference in the mode of poor behavior and sharp mood drops.

How to understand that the child is already enough one day sleep

- When you try to put the baby on the first day dream, he whirls or plays, and then stably falls asleep at a very short period of time or does not fall asleep at all
- The child does not fall asleep during a short trip in transport
- When the child misses the first daytime dream, he feels normally, he eats well, plays and does not demonstrate signs of fatigue
"The child is good and tightly sleeping in the second daytime sleep."

How to translate a child for one day sleep

First, do not really dramatize. It is clear that for a parent on child care leave - day sleep is the ability to drink coffee, wash the dishes, watch the series and read Nan. But let you have better will have a full-fledged two hours of free time in a row than two disgusts for 40 minutes when you do not have time.

Secondly, take the transition to one daytime sleep as an inevitable change in the regime, and not as a natural disaster that overtakes you suddenly. Give yourself and the child time to morally prepare for the new routine of the day.

Be patient: a couple of weeks may need to go to one child, and the other is a pair of months. At this time you can:
- Especially closely monitor the state of the baby - as soon as he starts to be capricious and make you, lay it. Soon you will know that, for example, HOW X falls at 13:00, and by this time it would be good for him not only to pick up from the site, but also feed
- It is necessary that you still have two day sleep. Just instead of the first you can have just a time to read or quiet games, such a kind of sensory unloading and recharging
- Choose to sleep the average time between your former first and second day sleep. For example, he went to 10 for the first time, and in the second - at 14 o'clock. So, a good time try to put it on sleep will be about noon. Take care that by this time the child has already managed and play, and walk, and scorn
- Watch the mode. Try to wake and put a child at the same time every day (in this sense, it is well disciplied by a visit to the group of incomplete days or some more institutions with classes in the first half of the day). If you notice that the baby wants to build a little earlier than you planned, lay, and in the evening, start the ritual of waste before the usual 40-60 minutes.

During the first and a half years of life, the child gradually reduces the number of day dreams.

By four months - 4 sleep.
Between 5 and 8 months - 3 sleep.
From 9 to 15-18 months -2 sleep.

If the rejection of the fourth, third sleep usually passes painlessly, then the transition to one day sleep can deliver many difficulties.

You may have met the term "discharge sleep." I do not know: where he appeared from, but I don't use it in my articles. On the site I use "refusal" or "transition" in the context of day dreams.

When is the transition to one day dream on average?

80% of children go to one dream between 15 and 18 months.

20% of children can go to one dream aged 12-14 months.

How to understand what time it is time to go to one dream?

The readiness indicators are listed below for two dreams:

The baby begins to systematically refuse to sleep during the day. Episodic difficulties with stacking do not count. Usually the child begins to resist the second sleep: the first dream, as a rule, does not cause problems.
Duration of day sleep may change: for example, one dream is becoming shorter and shorter.
You begin to experience difficulties, laying the baby at the time being taken during the day. You definitely see that the child is not tired of the usual starting time.
The child falls asleep in the evening or resists stacked.

If you see some of the above signs and your baby about 15-18 months, most likely it's time to go to one dream.

What if the child refuses the second sleep in too early age?

On average, up to 15-18 months, children need two daily sleep. If your child is much younger, (and at this age every month is very and very much), then there may be a problem in the so-called regression of sleep, and not in willingness to go to one dream.

Regression up to 1 year occurs approximately 3-4 and 8-10 months. Usually it is manifested as a sudden sleep worsening: the baby can start waking up at night, feel bad, refuse to sleep during the day without explicit for that reason. Regression is expressed differently from different children: some parents can not notice it.

My experience says that regression is always hard enough if a child has an adequate day of the day and a clear ritual for sleep. Usually, such a worsening of sleep lasts 1-4 weeks and then everything returns to the circles.
My advice to parents is 8-10 month old children: do not commit a big mistake and do not come to the conclusion about the unnecessaryness of two dreams. Your baby is still too small for this. Wait 1-2 weeks and everything will be fine with you.

How to go to one dream?

There are different approaches to the transition to one dream.

When I work on an individual request, I recommend different options depending on the following factors:

from what sleep begins to refuse the kid (first and second)?
what time does it put on the night?
how are parents are ready to lay it before?
how much can he be awake?

A specific transition may occur:

Sharply (one day) one dream is set at the right time.
Or smoothly - daily displacement of the morning sleep on a certain interval with a simultaneous displacement and shortening of the second sleep, as well as with the control of laying time. As the first sleep is achieved, the rejection of the second sleep.

The most important advice in the transition to one dream

For your child, it is very important to lay down. It is always important, and not only at the time of the transition. My practice shows that usually by one and a half years parents begin to believe that the child is "already big" and can be held by his later in the evening. When it coincides with the failure of one sleep, problems begin.

For a while (as long as one clear dream is established, and while the baby can not be awake more) it is extremely important for him to go to bed earlier in order to prevent overwork.

The human body is truly an amazing thing: everything in it is interconnected and nothing in it does not happen "just so." Here and the day's sleep in the kids plays many important roles about which mothers should know to make a child's holiday with a priority when organizing a schedule for a particular day.

During the first morning sleep, the kids actively learn - they remember new skills, words, phenomena and after such sleep show much higher results on reproducing what they were taught before bedtime. This fact is described in many studies of kinder sleep and that is why it is important to provide Morning Dream to children, as long as possible - so they literally become smarter! In the first year and a half, the kids are absorbed in the first year and a half that we are simply obliged to give them the opportunity to extract from it a maximum and adequate sleep here much more useful hike into a developing circle (and better so that they are both: first a circle, then sleep).

Dining bed allows kids to grow and develop physically. During this period (and only in a dream!) The growth hormone stands out, which not only helps the baby becomes higher and more, but also actively participates in the process of tissue regeneration. Remember how the baby becomes drowned when it sick? One of the reasons is the need to increase the production of just this hormone and, thus, help the baby get to recover faster.

Organization of daytime sleep

Day sleep is fragile and very dependent on external factors, especially if you just start working on the skills of good sleep. To help the baby, sleep faster and sleep longer is very important that you put it in the maximum darkening (as close as possible to the night). No, the baby will not have learned to sleep in the dark day - this is a physiological need, remember yourself - where is it comfortable to sleep in the afternoon: in a darkened room or with bright daylight?

Sound background in a sleeping room should be smooth. No need to strive for silence - any sudden surge of sound will sound much brighter (phone call, children on the site under the window, siren soon on the track). Ideally, you can use white noise.

Physiology of day school

Day sleep is controlled by another brain department than night, and serves to a greater extent for the emotional restoration of the forces of the baby. Daily dreams are finally formed and ripen much later than the night. Therefore, the baby is up to 4 months (from the PDR) you can see a rather chaotic duration of sleep - and 20 minutes, and 2 hours. This is normal and in most cases does not require intervention. The main thing is that some balance sheet remains and in the end, the baby slept approximately equally long and short dreams in the afternoon.

The duration of one sleep cycle in children is shorter than adults. The cycle lasts from 90 to 120 minutes, and kids from 30 to 50. When the cycle ends, anyone wakes up - and, if you can fall asleep yourself, immediately plunges into sleep again (and for the morning, even the memories does not remain about it) . Kids who cannot sleep after 40 minutes always depend on your help to fall asleep initially, and therefore after waking up between sleep cycles, they themselves do not cope with falling asleep.

How to fix it? Begin to learn the baby to fall asleep yourself - without breasts, swing on the ball or in a wheelchair, without pacifier, swing or any actions that the baby cannot reproduce for itself without your help.

When it is worthwwilling a child

Sometimes really need to wake the baby, although the hand does not rise it. And so you must be sure that the child really needs to wake up for his own good:

if the baby is less than 8 weeks (from the PDR) and he sleeps in a day more than at night. Write every 2 hours and be sure to take it on the sun - it will help customize the internal clock and return the longest sleep in the night;
if the kid aged 4-8 months sleeps more than an hour in the third sleep after 15-30. Such a dream will give a very small recovery, but almost certainly mixes the hormonal rhythm of night sleep;
if a child on one sleep is sleeping more than 3 hours, then you should wake up a crumb that the night's night's sleep begins not too late and came easier.

How much when, how?

Each mother at some point is asked if it is sleeping her baby in the afternoon? How many times should he need to sleep, and how long should the minimum sleep period last, to give a baby at least a little rest.

After 4 months, the minimum sleep should last at least 75 minutes;
By 5 months most of the kids form a schedule for 3 sleep;
By 8 months, the third dream leaves 95% of children. It happens literally in 2 days: the kid just fiercely protests against the lacking and refuses to fall asleep. If by 8 months, the baby is still three strong sleep, then it is worth it to carefully evaluate the length of the previous two;
In the interval between 15 and 18 months, children refuse to be second sleep and go to one;
Between 3 and 6 years day sleep leaves at all (and about 25 returns again, but now we cannot afford it).

Transition to one day sleep

This is one of the most difficult and protracted moments in a children's dream, so the mother must make all the decisions regarding the reorganization of the regime very carefully.

When?

Many children show the first attempts to eliminate day sleep, starting from 10-12 months, but the actual readiness of the body almost never comes before 15 months, and ideally you should pull up to 1.5 years.

The child must refuse one sleep at least 14 times in a row to make a decision on the transition to one dream

How?

If the baby became difficult to fall asleep into one of the dreams it is important to start moving away between themselves. This is perhaps the only stage in which I agree with the departure from dreams in 9 and 13.

Limit the morning sleep with an hour if you see that the second dream is still difficult. Protect first of all dining dream - if the baby is sleeping only in the morning, then until the evening he will accumulate excess fatigue and then the night will be difficult.

Offer alternating days with one and two dreams.

Do not forget about early laying in the evening. Transition to one dream This giant restructuring and baby will need to be adapted.

How much?

Another 2-3 months after the transition to one dream, the kids are sleeping "old" only 75-90 minutes. And only a few months later, the dream itself is lengthened to 2-3 hours. Only after that you can return the lacking in the evening later

From the first signs of the transition to the final lengthening of sleep passes 4-6 months, do not rush this process, and remember, the later you make this transition, the easier it will be for the kid.

It would seem, we apply so much effort to extend the dream of a child, what can be contrary to a good sleep? However, here are a few moments to consider:

Breastfall / Swing / Pacifier sleep will not give a long effect and only today's tasks decide, leaving tomorrow's dreams in the same form as today;
Sleep in motion greatly reduces the recovery effect from such a rest period. Even if your baby slept 2 hours in a rolling wheelchair / on the phytball, you can safely share this time at 3 to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe actual effect of this sleep. Remember how well you have fallen out last time, falling asleep in the car / plane / bus?
Not at any time the baby will sleep with the maximum effect. Numerous studies of children's circadian rhythms (internal hours) have shown that the highest quality of sleep is achieved when the kid falls asleep between 8-10 am and 12-14 days in local time;
Even a short daytime sleep is better than its complete absence;
Quality daytime sleep will provide more relaxed bedding and deep night sleep.

The nervous system of the child is not able to withstand wakefulness for the whole day, if the emotional and physiological forces of the kid are not restored during daytime sleep, it worsens not only his mood, but also well-being.

The stronger and healthier sleep of the child, the greater the whole family as a whole. It is no secret that the outfit, nervous, screaming baby and the same, but also a nicely, mother is a wonderful powerful tandem to spoil the life of each other and all households from Mala to Velik. That is why it is important to organize a normal bed of crumbs from the very first days of his life. This understands everything. In theory. But how to do in practice, represents only a very small percentage of moms and dads. Dr. Evgeny Komarovsky tells what to do for this.

About sleep as a whole

Children day sleep is needed. The baby learns the world, sometimes very actively, and the abundance of impressions strongly exhausts it.

Dreaming allows you to restore forces, give a vacation to the nervous system and the whole body as a whole. It is important for a growing little man just like meals and treatment if the baby fell ill. During sleep, the composition of the blood is updated, the muscles and muscles are resting, the most important enzymes and many vital hormones are produced.

Sleep rate - the concept is quite blurry, one it does not exist. Baby sleeps longer than a child after a year. For a newborn, it is considered normal sweet snack in the crib after each feeding, a total of 19-22 hours a day. From 1 to 3 months, the child commits 3-4 day sleep, taking into account the night they sleep until 17 hours a day. From 4 months, the child can lie in the afternoon 2-3 times to 3 hours, and along the night in sum sleeps until 15-16 hours a day.

At the age of 1 to 2 years, the child can sleep in the afternoon once, and can be applied and twice for 2-3 hours. Translate a child for one dream. Pediatricians are recommended from 2 years. At about this time, there is also the beginning of a kindergarten visit, so it is usually easy to make such a transition. Duration of quiet hour for such a child - from 1 to 3 hours.

However, it is impossible to measure all the kids in existing standards, because the kids have a different temperament, the level of impressionability, the ability to switch from activity to rest. Maybe therefore, the norms remain norms on paper, in fact, statistics will vary greatly. But the value of daytime sleep is not lost.

The opinion of Dr. Komarovsky

The only thing that does not depend on parents in the organization of children's sleep is a diaper, says Evgeny Komarovsky. If the mother and dad did not regret money and bought a good, high-quality and convenient diaper, then this is half success, because it is discomfort and dampness that are the most frequent causes of child sleep disturbances. There is no need to invent anything, says the doctor, everything has already been created and should benefit and children and adults.

All the rest of the parents have to do on their own. Usually, the baby is better sleeping at night, if the day he managed to relax her carefully. However, it is not necessary to think that it is good - this is too long sleep. After all, it is clear that the crumb, who slept the whole day, will awake at night. Therefore, the proper day -comy planning will help solve some violations of this process at night.

The need for daytime sleep

Official medicine believes that day dream is needed by a child before reaching the seven age. Evgeny Komarovsky is confident that after five years the child no longer needs daily dreams. However, if the baby stopped sleeping in the afternoon of 2 years, then this is a reason to deal with the reasons, make adjustments to the mode of the day and return the day rest back as soon as possible. Chado is still too little to keep normal life from the night to night.

Evgeny Komarovsky calls on parents to analyze the lifestyle of the baby. Does it eat well, do not overproof him, whether he walks enough in the fresh air, whether the temperature and humidity of the air in the children's room are normal. All these factors, according to the doctor, have the most direct impact on the quality (and quantity!) Sleep.

The baby's bed must be comfortable, and underwear and pajamas are made of natural fabrics, which are nice to the croching and do not interfere with him to sleep. The room should be fresh air, the temperature of which does not exceed 20 degrees, and humidity - 50-70%.

Details of this will tell Dr. Komarovsky in the video below.

Correction of the regime

A big mistake of parents is to adapt to the child. Krochu brought from the maternity hospital, and mom and dad began to sleep when they make it a small family member. Komarovsky advises immediately transfer the child to the mode that is acceptable for all households, and not vice versa.

As soon as you decide on the night's sleep time, it will be possible to plan and daylight, knowing the averaged norms of the total number of time that kids in one or another should be given to sleep. This will require discipline first of all from the parents themselves, because the regime created by them will have to be observed primarily by them, then the child will be able to quickly take the routine of the day as something completely natural.

Evgeny Olegovich advises without a doubt and remarks of conscience to wake up the day of the baby, so that he had no problems with falling asleep at night, and the routine built with such labor did not collapse overnight.

In order for the child to go to bed more eagerly, the doctor recommends thinking about his leisure in the morning, in the morning. Well, if it is active games, exercise, according to age, massage or gymnastics, and be sure to go outdoors. After the child is on dinner, he will not have to please sleep, he wants this very much.

The smaller the healthy activity is the worse the day's dream of a child. Therefore, if parents complain that the child "is usually sleeping normally well, but recently ceased to go to bed", Evgeny Olegovich advises simply to reconsider his lifestyle, add walks, sports, come up with new entertainment.

Special attention is paid to the mattress on which the child is sleeping. It must be smooth and not to be pricked. It is best to choose an orthopedic mattress.

Up to 2 years, the child must sleep without a pillow.Such is the recommendation of Evgenia Komarovsky. After two years, parents can give a baby pillow if desired, but its sizes should not be adults. The optimal is considered the thickness of the pillow, equal to the size of the children's shoulder.

If no homework to improve daytime sleep is helped, Komarovsky recommends contacting the pediatrician, psychologist and children's neurologist, they will help to establish hidden reasons for sleeping and help eliminate them. It is important to do without leaving the problem on a samonek, at least for the reason that sometimes it's calmly sleep in a quiet hour, the baby prevents pain. Find and neutralize - in this situation the overall task of parents and physicians.