sleep in children

Sleep in children

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With quarantine, the majority suffer from insomnia.. but what about kids.....

It must first be understood that the child has two completely dissimilar types of sleep.
treatments will be different depending on the case. of course, it is not recommended to use sedatives and other drugs. the sleep of the child is a very fragile thing and too essential to leave the only responsibility of it to the pharmacist and to the chemotherapy.

his whole life is likely to be influenced by his behavior in sleep.
the first type is discernible by constant agitation.
head sinking into the pillow, very unpleasant grinding of teeth, arm and leg blows ... these are children who generally overflow with energy during the day.
the second type of insomnia is due to intense mental activity.
The child nightmares, cries, groans, then gets up, unable to sleep. This troubled sleep is intense agitation for the child. generally it just takes a few simple and effective methods.
there are also sleep difficulties in infants. nocturnal awakenings, chills. the simplest in this case is to feed him. he will fall asleep immediately. beyond the age of two months, it will nevertheless be necessary to check whether the food you
give birth is well balanced and healthy, if it corresponds to his temperament, his nature and his physical composition. if it is not too rishe or too poor, if the child digests well does it ..
a trivial but classic cause of insomnia can sometimes be the lack or excess of heat. the child wakes up gasping for sweat, asking for a drink, or a heavy sleep with many awakenings at night.
often also, insomnia is, according to yourcenar's expression, only (the maniacal obstinacy of our intelligence has charged invoices, the refusal to abdicate before the stupid beate of dreams); indeed it is this peroid that the child, despite the first signs
forerunners of sleep (eyes which close, eyelids which blink, untimely yawning ..) fight against his feelings, perhaps because he feels there too great a abandonment of himself in front of forces unknown to him.
Around the age of six, nocturnal phobias, fear of the dark, etc. take place. In this case, most of the time, a caress, the reassuring and warm voice of the comprehensive mother is enough to attenuate, if not to make disappear these troubles due to the nascent imagination.
In other cases, a pilot light, for example, will be required. The child will thus have a bright and reassuring presence near him; he will no longer be afraid of the dark. We must remember, however, that the child's sleep is an essential stage in his evolutionary cycle and his spiritual and mental evolution.
 It can influence an entire adult life and later create, if it is poorly controlled, psychosomatic disorders and regulate aggressive social behaviors, or lead to an almost permanent depression.

But what plays above all a crucial role in this balance of sleep, keystone of our universes and our organic complexions (read on this subject the essays of jung and dee freud on dreams and sleep), in these first years life learning,
it is maternal love, crucial. family tenderness can often modify many things, and in particular transform a troubled sleep into peaceful sleep.
Generally regulate the heating between fifteen and eighteen degrees, place in a room a humidifier to avoid the drying which leads to a waking thirst.
sometimes, a bad understanding with the parents (too much or not enough love) can disturb the sleep of the very young child.
Between 1 and 3 years is the crucial period for young insomniacs. Indeed, it is towards this period that the child becomes aware and has. most in need of maternal love, key to her future life and determining all her behavior to come.
 It is also the period when the mother resumes her work. Or it moves away imperceptibly from the one to whom it gave birth. The child can ill bear this change, not get used to this separation, to the mental umbilical cord which gradually detaches.
 This is a cause that is frequently found at the origins of prepubertal insomnia, and more particularly in this key period in the life of the child which is that which covers the period from 1 to 3 years.

Another reason: starting school, often experienced as a cut, often painful, from the mother, a surgical operation on the soul, a loss of mental virginity and the appearance in a new universe, more violent and calm month than that, privileged, of the family cocoon. in that case ; we notice that the troubles get better,
lessen, even even fade and disappear in the periods of holidays and weekends.
It also happens that an unwanted cohabitation by the child can cause problems for the child who has not resolved his Oedipus.