BABY spent dozens of hours per day for sleep. Even newborn babies can spend approximately 16-18 hours per day for sleep. With increasing age, his sleep was reduced. A year old baby spent between 14-16 hours. Baby sleep quality not only affects the physical development, but also his attitude the next day.

Light sleep or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is a condition with characteristics, such as irregular breathing, the body tends to tense, and moving the eyeball under the eyelid. Most normal infants in a state of REM sleep. Conversely, sleep soundly or non-REM sleep characterized by a state is very casual, relaxed, lying quietly with the heartbeat and breath regularly, and almost no dreaming. Difficult to wake the baby in this phase of sleep. Here are some tips for baby's slumber.

1.Provide adequate food and beverages.
Many babies have trouble falling asleep or frequent waking from sleep because it was not yet full. Therefore, meet the needs of baby food and drink before bed. If their physical needs met, no longer little often woke in the middle of the night. To note, in terms of dental health, feeding habits at night should be stopped after a baby tooth appears (at about age 6 months after the period of exclusive breastfeeding). Instead, provide water, if he is thirsty or soothe a baby to sleep again.

2.Wear appropriate clothing.

Choose comfortable clothes to sleep. Customize the size by your baby's body. Do not be too large, but also not too small so it does not make it crowded. Select a fabric soft nightgown. Comfortable nightgown help babies sleep through the night.

3.Clean bodies.

Body sticky with sweat and dirt after meals and play easy to make baby's skin itch. Therefore, wipe the baby's body with a wet cloth before sleeping. If necessary, brush the powder into the folds of skin and dab oil telon in the abdomen and back. These ways that can make baby comfortable and fast asleep.

4.Arrange rooms and bedrooms.

Set a comfortable atmosphere so that the room for sleeping. Room settings include settings for lighting, ventilation, color, temperature, and also state his crib. You can put a crib in the bedroom, the bedside or in the parents' own rooms. Each of these options has advantages and disadvantages. When a baby is often restless and awakened from sleep, padding his side with a small pillow, or bundles of blankets (you can also soft towel) so that the baby felt there was a guard. Avoid loud noises that make it too easy to wake up. Do not use air freshener and anti-mosquitoes that could make it crowded. Mosquitoes are often make a baby sleep not soundly. Use mosquito nets to protect babies from the onslaught of mosquitoes.

5.Paint walls.
Select paint the walls with soft colors. Paint a dark color can make a child afraid. If you want to put a picture, select the picture or beautiful scenery or fun as your child's favorite cartoon. No need to set an image that make children fantasize that scary.

6.Pee before bed.

Pants were wet and dirty baby can disrupt sleep. Therefore, keep the baby's bowel movements) or pee (urinate) before bed. Indeed this is not necessarily a guarantee that the baby does not bowel and bladder at night because it is often whether or not the baby's bowel movement was also influenced by the intake of beverages and foods, as well as various other factors. But at least the baby is accustomed to Manage the biological clock, including bowel and bladder. Well, so the baby can stay "dry", do not give him milk when he wakes up at night. Nutritional needs of infants 6 months should be filled in the morning until 1-2 hours before bedtime.

7.Storytelling.

Fables can make baby sleep fast. Choose the fairy tale books are funny, interesting, and brief. Read it gently and repeatedly. But you must remember well that not all babies can enjoy the story. The effectiveness of this method is also very dependent on parents' ability to tell stories. If the baby does not seem interested in the stories you read, do not forced. Ganti Replace with a more appealing picture book, not too much detail, or search for other more effective ways.
8.Sing and whisper words of tenderness.

Complete the fairy tale with sleep baby singing , or other songs like that can soothe your baby. Say the words softly and faint in his ears. All of these can make a baby quiet. Repeat these words each time put the baby in bed. Calmness is the key to baby sleep soundly.

9.Bedtime music.

Beautiful music will be cradled a baby quickly. Moreover, if the mother was used to play music since the baby was still inside the womb. Some babies successfully soothed by these ways. Therefore, there is nothing wrong you try this way. Keep in your mind, the music also provides therapeutic effects which can stimulate brain development in infants.

10.Regular pattern of life and avoid stress.

Routines performed since the baby woke up before bed back (bathing, eating, playing, waste water, cleaning teeth, etc.) to help him find the rhythm of life. Regular rhythm to make a baby is able to do so with the anticipation of the situation thus he can get emotional stability. This stability is greatly affect the quality of infant sleep.

SLEEP is very important for life. While sleeping, your body rest and renew energy.

Ideally a tiny baby would rather spend their time to sleep. But, what if the baby during the day but the brake "hold literacy" throughout the night? It can disturb the peace to sleep Mom and Dad, right?

Well, for you are curious to know what a strong little cause sleepless at midnight, read this article carefully.

Continuing the pattern of sleep in the womb
Moms, Try flashback moment! When first pregnant, if you feel your baby move more at night? If yes, may be he still followed the pattern of sleep "duration".

According to Dr. Alan Greene, author of "From First Kicks to First Steps', each baby develops rhythm of sleep and wake up each during late pregnancy. There is an active fetal move when his mother was busy on the move during the day, but when the mother to rest at night, he became quiet.

Conversely, when his mother active in the day, the fetus tends to calm even as rocked in a cradle. But at night, he ended up turning on, punched and kicked, but the activity significantly reduced the mother.

So, when the little bear awake all night, could be once he is a character fetuses tend active at night. And, usually he will continue the pattern of sleep for several periods after he was born.

Following the parents' sleep patterns
Other causes of why the little bear literacy is the lack of stimulation? Primarily for the eyes? During the day, so he'll get plenty of sleep. As a result, he will have extra energy to awake all night.

Try to evaluate your night's sleep habits and your husband! Are hours sleep less than 6-8 hours a day? Because the baby is very easy to adapt to the environment. If you and your husband often invited to play at night? Day you and your husband work? Then he will get used to "stay up" and follow the parents' sleep patterns.

Old baby to sleep
Generally, the newborn (neonatal) until the age of one month is usually asleep during the 16? 19 hours a day. He often woke up every 2-3 hours for a drink. Because the cause of awakening is hunger, and the baby slept no more than 4? 5 hours sleep.

Some babies sleep longer and 8? 10 hours to sleep and once this is still a reasonable thing. However, if the baby weight loss or weight gain is not satisfactory, then the baby should be woken every 2? 3 hours to be given to drink.

3-month-old baby usually sleep between 13? 15 hours a day. Usually five hours will be used to sleep during the day and the rest is sleep that night. Infants may be awakened once or twice in one night.

Good growth, no problem
While you hold your baby for hours awake all night, do not be too worried. Throughout the normal weight, metabolism of both, the growth of good, does not mean fussy baby is getting enough sleep.

If the baby Moms fine, no health problems, you may feel relieve. However, when Moms were still in doubt and there is a sense of concern about the number of hours of sleep your child, you should consult your doctor. Complaints and concerns will be quickly handled.

LOTS of new parents have difficulty finding their baby's sleeping patterns. In fact, they must ensure that your child has a sleep quality so that growth was good.

If you want your baby sleep better and longer, you better start looking for how a good way to put him to sleep. Although the phrase "sleep soundly at night" may not be included in the baby's dictionary , but you can still make a better quality sleep at other hours. Here are the tip :

Make sure their basic needs are met

Infants must be difficult to sleep when hungry. If left alone, will not be quickly closed his eyes. Before you take him to the crib mattress, changing clothes with more comfortable the material, replace with a new diaper, feed and burp him.

Make sure no one made him not want to sleep or waking up frequently during sleep. Very young infants, especially infants exclusively breastfed, were more often awakened from sleep than infants who drink formula milk. Therefore, you should accompany your baby when sleeping.

Create a bedtime fun

Bedtime story book or can be a particular song as the way you give the signal to your child's bedtime. Make sure you choose a bedtime quite comfortable and calm.

After observing and getting to know the character of the baby for a few days, you'll know what kind of bedtime fit for him. If the book's story or a particular song made him uneasy, or condition of dark rooms make him uncomfortable, try to exchange the book and turn on room lights. Ensure your child find the process to sleep in a more convenient and fun is important.

Take care and tighten up a bedtime routine

The key is to match your work schedule with little sleep schedule. Do not make drastic changes in daily rhythms. Record the results of this observation for a few weeks so you can see the pattern that emerged with greater clarity. Make the results of these notes to create your baby sleep schedule.

Use the approach
Should you let your baby cry or make them uncomfortable? Should you dare to help him sleep or let her sleep alone? The approach can include music, books, soft toys, or favorite blanket (at the age of your child enough to sleep using a blanket), or something unique for your baby. If there is something that can make your baby comfortable and sleep better, there's no harm in trying.

Create a conducive environment

Environment where your child to sleep is one important factor to maintain sleep quality, as you do. Indeed, spent a considerable amount of time, effort, and attention to choose the bedroom, beds, pillows, mattresses, lamps, wall colors, sights, sounds, room temperature, or whichever is convenient for him.

If you feel so tired to take care your newborn baby, may be advice from Dr. William C. Dement, a sleep physician and specialist,need to be implemented to your activities. Parents (especially mothers) who had just had a baby, usually sleep-deprived for two hours each night until the baby was five months old. Then after five months to two years old child, parents usually lack of sleep for an hour every night. But all can be solved by following your baby's sleep pattern.

Average total length of the newborn is sleeping 16-19 hours a day. But, every time sleep time was not long. Moreover, the newborn sleep cycles are still affected his habit when in the womb, where he actually slept more during the day and vice verse is more active at night. As a result, the mother had so often wake up at night.

Breastfed babies are only going to get up every one or two hours to breastfeed. The reason is because the breast milk itself are already 'half' digested, making it easier and more quickly absorbed by the baby's digestion. But the result, the child will quickly and woke up hungry. Therefore, mothers who breastfeed tend to be more or less sleep than women who give their babies formula milk at night.

This is one form of 'struggle' to be done to give exclusive breastfeeding mothers to their babies. While infants who drink formula, it usually will sleep longer, about 3-4 hours, this is because the infant digestive tract more slowly digested. Fortunately, once the age of three months, your baby will sleep longer at night. If awake, at most only one or two trips during the night.

To note, the mother's condition of constant sleep deprivation make body feels sore, weak, tired, and lethargic, reflexes also tend to decrease. Lack of sleep can also lower the body resistance. Fortunately, physical fatigue will be a little 'relieved' when you can lay down and relax for a moment. Unfortunately, this does not apply to mental fatigue.

A very influential part of the brain controls your ability to speak, remember, concentrate and pay attention to, and solve the problem, it will not function properly if you do not really sleep with enough.
As a result, lack of sleep cause you to easily forget, hard to concentrate, moody, more sensitive than usual and may even be difficult to choose the words while talking. Sleep deprivation was also able to become one of the factors (in addition to hormonal factors) causes the baby blues in the mother

Latest news well known by parents who still have a baby. The experts say that the massage actions helps newborns sleep better and reduce infant crying habits. Massage can also reduce stress levels in infants and create closer relationships between babies and their parents.

From the research they say that babies aged less than six months in the massage routine was also able to reduce levels of stress hormone 'cortisol' than babies who never get a massage.

A team of researchers from Warwick Medical School and the Institute of Education from the University of Warwick, researching 9 kinds of massage movements are applied to the 598 infants under 6 months of age.

Infants receiving massage from their parents, before parents were trained by health professionals so that once the baby is in the massage, they get the most effective.

Research findings are one of them mentioned that massage can affect the sleep hormone melatonin solution, where the hormone can have babies regular sleep patterns.

Another thing mentioned is the act of massage is established a better relationship between baby and mother.

Angela who led the study says, the effect of this massage action is to control the stress hormone, which is not surprising that the study proved the baby, has a simple effect like sleep and relaxation.

Often at night when parents can not sleep well because the baby is often awake. If parents want their babies to sleep longer at night, change the way your baby sleep during the day so that your baby when you sleep more soundly at night.

Babies who are fed according to the time when babies are hungry and carried her mother's lap during the day will make such patterns nap dozing. This will be useful to save time and will have a bed to sleep the night time is longer.

Actually the baby sleep cycle is shorter sleep cycles than adults, because infants have a period that does not sleep more soundly than sound sleep. Because the medical definition to sleep through the night is sleeping in five hours continuously.

Babies usually wake up 2-3 times every night since the new-born babies until 6 months of age, the age of 1-2 times for the 6 months to a year and up 1 time at age one to two years.

There are several ways that can be done by parents in order to make their babies sleep well at night, as quoted from the article The Baby Book William Sears and Martha Sears :

1. Help your child understand that it is time to eat during the day and night time to sleep or rest. Try to feed your baby every 3 hours during the day.
2. Hold your baby during the day. Increased frequency of closeness and intimacy enhance the tranquility and calm your baby during the day tend to be quiet at night.
3. Try to breastfeed your baby until full before bed and when baby wakes up at night.
4. Wear the right clothes to bed. Try to use a variety of baby pajamas to see what clothes to help her sleep more quietly. Generally, babies can sleep better if the dress is made of cotton.
5. Lay down the baby in the mother's hand. The warmth of his mother can provide the extra touch needed to help your baby fall asleep while giving a gentle tap on the baby's back or buttocks. Remove the hand slowly in order not to wake him.
6. Make a quiet place to sleep. Generally baby can get used to not wake up with the voices often heard, but will wake up when they hear a sudden sound or startled.
7. Determine the temperament of a baby at night. Every baby is different temperament, a baby can calm myself but there is also the whining when he woke up. If you quickly to your baby before you actually wake up, it's easier to put him to sleep again.

Parents can not force the baby to sleep. Creation of a safe environment and comfortable is the best way to get baby to sleep faster and sleep periods are longer, so the baby will not wake up at night.

Risk of sudden death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) often occurs in babies who were sleeping. Familiarize your baby sleep on their backs to avoid the threat of SIDS.

Placing baby on his back when sleeping proven to reduce the risk of sudden death syndrome in infants (SIDS). And babies until 6 months of age were at risk of SIDS.

Dr. Carl Hunt of the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo said there was no health risk would come if the lull a baby with his back and no price to pay for the baby to sleep with his back .

As quoted from Health24, several studies have also shown that babies who slept in supine position (use the back) can reduce the risk of SIDS.

In 1992 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that babies sleep on his side or her back to reduce the risk and that both these strategies successfully. So the death of SIDS infants was decreased approximately 40 percent.

Some parents choose tummy tuck her baby in the parents fear the baby would choke and believe that the baby will sleep better if her mother's stomach.

Researchers analyzed information obtained from 3733 infants of mothers put the baby in the same position during sleep, the majority by using the baby's back, followed by your side and prone positions.

The survey was conducted at the age of the baby one, three and six months to see if the baby has symptoms such as fever, cough, difficulty breathing, diarrhea and vomiting.

"Based on these studies there is a decrease symptoms of fever at the age of one month, stuffy nose and difficulty in sleeping in after six months and an ear infection at three and six months, for infants who slept supine position," said Marian Willinger specialist for the National SIDS Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

Researchers suggest that babies who slept with his back or better than in infants who slept with his stomach. This is because babies who sleep with my stomach has a high temperature in the mouth and throat, which may be caused by bacterial growth conducive.

In other words, children who slept with his back more often swallow that indicate the possibility of these children are effectively cleared his throat.

"Whatever the reason, it is important for the baby to always be placed with the back of each bed with the nanny while," said Willinger.

Every person has a number of hours of sleep different, so far people only say sleep is enough for 8 hours a day. But this does not apply to the children, because the younger the age of the child then hours more sleep.

The experts set correctly bedtime can improve sleep quality and quantity of infants and toddlers. Children who are not getting enough sleep will affect the personality, memory, attention and emotions of the child. Usually the child will not easily angered, could not concentrate and have a weak memory.

Here is the number of hours of sleep a child needs based on age according to the National Sleep Foundation:

1. Newborn 2-month-old need to sleep 10.5 to 18 hours.
2. Infants 3 months to 11 months need to sleep 9 to 12 hours and added with a nap.
3. Children aged 1 to 3 years old need to sleep 12 to 14 hours.
4. Children ages 3 to 5 years need to sleep 11 to 13 hours.
5. Children ages 5 to 12 years need to sleep 10 to 11 hours.
6. Sleep teenagers need at least 8.5 to 9.5 hours.
7. Adults need to sleep 7 to 9 hours.

Every person who gets a sufficient amount will be happy when waking in the morning, including children. If children get enough sleep the amount the child would be eager to go to school, can receive a lesson well and other benefits.

"Trouble sleeping patterns and routines usually occurs because of the long-term process which has unwittingly become a habit," says Lauren Hale, an assistant professor at Stony Brook University Medical Center, New York, as quoted by CNN.

In order for children to have proper sleep patterns, make it a habit to get kids into the bedroom an hour before bedtime. And do not get children to sleep because of watching television or reading a story book, and try to sleep well child.

Do not ignore the baby nap schedule. Because the baby has a nap schedule regularly showed increased brain's ability to detect new information.

Researchers from the University of Arizona at Tucson conducted a study involving 48 infants were observed for 15 months until the baby is accustomed to the nap activities.

The result, obtained with a baby nap schedule showed interest in regular expressions to hear new. But this interest does not occur in infants who do not have a regular nap schedule.

"Most of the babies suffered brain development while sleeping so that it can enter the information received and learned to keep it. If the nap is not enough they will lose it," said lead researcher Lynn Nadel, as quoted from the AP.

Nadel reveals another important thing to do is keep giving parents babies and kids kind of mental stimulation, especially in terms of talking or reading. This learning would be better if the infant or child has a daily cycle of sleep is sufficient and adequate.

Nap time becomes important because if your baby napping too late to affect nighttime sleep. Sleeping in a few times in one day is a good schedule for the baby because according to the biological clock.

Every baby has a sleep time different. But in general there is the best time for baby to sleep is:

1. If the baby needs time to bed 3 times which is at mid-morning, sleeping during the day and evening.
2. If the baby needs to sleep 2 times the time when mid-morning and afternoon.
3. If the baby has a 1-time sleep time is during the day.

The number of hours of sleep a baby vary depending on the age of the child or children, namely:

1. 4 months age need time to sleep 3 times with a total of 4-6 hours.
2. 6 months age require 2 times when sleeping with a total of 3-4 hours.
3. 9 months age require 2 times when sleeping with a total of 2,5-4 hours.
4. 12 months age need to sleep 1-2 times with a total of 2-3 hours.
5. 2 years age require 1 time sleeping with a total of 1-2 hours.
6. 3 years age require 1 time sleeping with a total of 1-1.5 hours.

Having a new baby, especially the first child is a gift in this life. Everything feels good because of the presence of a baby becomes a pride in life. The husband and wife can smile with relief after the barren apart from the assumption of relatives and family with the birth of your baby. But many are not expecting a new problem began to emerge in this period. Parents are busy working often experience the baby blues just because of their sleep disturbed by a crying baby at night because it was in the baby's sleep schedule is uncertain.

You may be wondering to youself, why my baby always wake up at night? Is this normal? How do I fix?

Above questions we will discuss one by one. But first we want to describe the baby's need for sleep so that you know your baby's sleep schedule and you do not interfere with the baby waking in the middle of the night.

Sleep needs of infants age 0-2 months
In one day 0-2 month old baby needs to sleep some 10,5-18 hours. Until the age of 6-8 months infant sleep patterns are irregular. This sleep pattern is closely related to hunger. At this age your baby to sleep with a lot of movement such as smiling, sucking and move the baby's body moving. To facilitate the process of sleeping babies always look at your baby's sleep pattern changes and recognize the signs of drowsiness. When the baby looked sleepy get him sleep soon in bed. Try not to lull the baby in a sling and just put the baby after she was asleep. Sleep infants supine position to avoid SIDS infants, and aim a little dark room conditions so sleepy babies do not get lost.

Sleep needs of age infants 2-12 months
In one day old baby usually takes 2-12 months to sleep for 14 to 15 hours. In contrast to the newborn, the amount of sleep the night babies aged 2-12 months usually have increased. Husband and wife can easily see the differences in infant sleep patterns at this age because the baby has changed her sleeping habits. Usually the baby will nap 3-4 times but only at the end of the first year could be reduced to 1-2 times. To facilitate the process of creating a baby sleep schedules baby sleep daily routine and make it into something fun between you and the baby. Maintain a quiet sleep environment and dark as before and try to be your baby can fall asleep alone and reduce customs patted her baby to sleep quickly

Baby sleep needs 1-3 years of age
At the age of 1-3 years of general infant sleep in a day has decreased to be 12-14 hours. Total sleep during which a baby is usually only for 1.5 hours to 3.5 hours per day. Babies at this age are no longer sleeping in the morning so the baby can usually sleep through the night with more regular. Turn your baby's sleep schedule as usual. Tighten bedtime and your child will manage to get the courage to sleep alone. Set up the toys that can make it more comfortable and reassured that he wanted to learn to sleep alone without soothed by a parent.