Some ways to help prevent children from getting startled when sleeping

Babies are startled when sleeping is a phenomenon that worries many parents because the poor quality of sleep will affect their physical and intellectual development. In order to thoroughly solve this problem, parents need to identify the cause and have appropriate behavior.

Before seeking to treat sleep in babies, their parents need to understand what causes the condition. That is:

• Biological reflexes: In the first month, the baby is not accustomed to the external environment, so he is often startled when sleeping. This condition will improve as the baby is older;
• Psychological insecurity: Babies are often startled when nervous, anxious, scared, feel unsafe;
• Noise: Babies are easily startled while sleeping by loud noises outside such as phone bells, music, openings,…;
• Unexpectedly put down: When he is carried and placed down unexpectedly, he is startled by changing his height too quickly to feel like he is falling;
• Gastric reflux: Is a common cause of baby shock;
• Calcium deficiency: When there is a lack of calcium, the child is often startled and startled;
• Damage to the central nervous system: Congenital neurological disorders, damaged nerves are the cause of the baby's shock when sleeping;

When the baby is startled while sleeping, parents should embrace the baby. Your child will hear the familiar sounds of their parents, thereby dispelling fear and feeling safer, sleeping better. This is a countermed measure when the child is startled to sleep.

In babies who are often startled when sleeping, parents need to monitor to find out the cause of the disease. If due to medical causes, parents need to take the child to pediatrics for appropriate treatment. In cases of startling due to natural reflexes and external environmental impacts, parents can apply the following ways to startle children to sleep:

• Create an ideal sleeping space for your baby: Loud noises, uncomfortable bedrooms are one of the reasons why children often startle when sleeping. Therefore, parents should arrange the baby's bedroom quietly, without noise, appropriate room temperature, neither too hot nor too cold. At the same time, it is recommended to minimize the light when the baby sleeps;
• Create a sense of safety for your baby: Use a pillow to hug the child, a light pillow to block the person or use the mother's clean shirt to get closer to the child to feel closer to the mother, feel more secure;
• Put your baby to bed when he sleeps: When lulling the baby to sleep, parents should limit the baby to sleep on their hands because it will create a bad habit for the baby. Instead, you should put your baby to bed when she sleeps, pat her so that she sleeps deeper and does not startle her;
• Full breastfeeding: Breast milk is the optimal source of nutrients, providing the baby with all the necessary groups of substances, helping the baby to develop comprehensively and strengthen resistance. Therefore, the mother should fully breastfeed the baby so that the baby is healthy, does not suffer from a lack of substances, ends the state of shock when sleeping due to a lack of calcium;
• For children to sunbathe regularly: To help them not suffer from calcium deficiency, mothers should give them regular sunbathing. After birth from 7-10 days, the baby is already able to sunbathe. Mother should let her sunbathe in the early morning, when the sun is still mild, avoid days of strong winds, harsh sunshine or erratic weather changes.

Sleep or startle causes the child to fall asleepnot deeply, thereby affecting intellectual and physical development. Therefore, parents need to find out what causes babies to be startled when sleeping to have the most effective method of controlling this condition.

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