Why can not a child fall asleep?

It is very important to know, how your child sleeps. It is preferable to give a glance on his smiling person, good mood and supply of energy. Problems in the relationships can have an effect on tiredness of a child. Similarly, the problems of sleep can cause stress, both at you and at other family members.

Many parents do not know exactly how many hours their child must sleep. Specialists recommend the following amount of clock on  every age stage:

- Babies (from  3  to  11 months): from  14  to  15 hours; 

- Children beginning to walk: from  12  to  14 hours;

- Under-fives: from  11  to  13 hours;

- Children of school age: from  10  to  11 hours.

According to the information received from parents, many children do not sleep the fixed time. They are asleep either anymore or less time being allocated. But practically children sleep all night long. Children who can not normally fall asleep, possibly, suffer by disorder of sleep.

Here are a few signs of child sleep problems:

you squander too much time, to «help» your child to fall asleep;

— Your child repeatedly gets up during night;

Your child very loudly snores or badly breathes during night;

— Conduct of your child, mood, marks changed at school;

Your child began to urinate in a bed, although before it did not do;

— you lost sleep from bad sleep of Your child.

Many children suffer from insomnia in childhood. Disorder of sleep entails following two problems:

Disorder of sleep on the basis of association

Many of us wake up during night for a while. Most often it happens on the stage of sleep, when we see most of dreams. This stage of sleep is known by rapid motions of eyes (REM-dream). Usually, we do not notice these awakenings and fall asleep again very quickly.

Little children, waking up, can weep. Parents as a rule feel that they must «help» the child to fall asleep again. It is possible to do by rocking or feeding a child, similarly it is possible to by adjoining with him alongside. As a result many children, after some time, are unable to fall asleep independently.

A child begins associate going to bed with actions of parents. If your child befits under this description, he or she suffers by disorder of sleep on the basis of association.