3-5 Years Sleep Pattern
Day Sleep: 1 - 2 hours; 1 time (daytime sleeps up after 4 years old)
Night's Sleep: 10 - 11 hours
Total Sleep: 11 - 13 hours
Your two-year-old sleeps one sleep during the day. This process continues until the age of four. After the age of four, his daytime sleep is stopped. During this period, your child can sleep in the evening earlier than usual to ensure full sleep.
Your child is now old enough to understand everything. Therefore, his sleep may be affected by every negativity he experiences during the day.
Now that your child is growing and moving, it can be difficult to keep him in bed, behind bars.
A two-year-old is usually a good time to move from a baby bed to a child bed. It is useful to make this transition fun. So you can let him love his new bed. Otherwise you are likely to experience sleep problems.
Your baby's possible sleep problems during this period and our solutions are as follows:
From crib to cot:
Some of the children want to go to the new bed, some of them have difficulty in getting used to this situation and can resist to not sleeping when it is time to sleep.
You can solve this problem by making him love his new bed. It might even be a pretty nice idea to get the bed together if you wanted. In addition, laying the sheets of his favorite cartoon characters on his bed and putting his favorite toys will make his new bed more attractive to him. So she will be eager to sleep in her new bed.
During this process, you should continue to apply your previous sleep routines. To replace your baby's bed with a child's bed, it is best not to rush, even if he wants to. Placing the sleep routine and rules before changing the bed will help to avoid any sleep problems you may have during the change.
Getting up from your bed and coming to your room:
Once your child has moved to their new bed, they can now leave the bed. During this period, it is possible to wake up at night to come to your room. He can even walk around the house while you sleep.
This is dangerous for your child and makes the process of going to sleep quite difficult. Therefore, it is important that you should take her to your bed patiently every time you come and repeat each time that everyone should sleep in their bed.
It would also be a useful choice to put a security door on the door of his room so that he would stay in his own room instead of wandering around the entire house.
Resistance to sleep:
As your child approaches the age of two, resistance and excuses may start slowly to avoid sleeping: istiy I want another glass of water ”ım I am hungry” istiy I want to kiss once more ”orum I want to drink milk” “I want to sleep with my father / mother.
In this case, a determined attitude will solve the problem. Not to mention once. Make sure that the sequel will come. So when it is time to sleep, make it clear that you will not compromise on it by making it clear. Your child will stop resisting sleeping after a while in the face of this determined and consistent attitude and make sure that you feel more confident in your consistency.
If the sleep routine is getting boring, you can add a quiet activity of interest to the routine.
Early Waking:
The waking time for infants and young children is usually between 06:00 and 08:00 in the morning. But some people wake up at 5:00 am to 5:30 am, no matter what time they do. The daily routine of a child with early waking problems should be reviewed.
In such cases, daytime sleep and night time can be reorganized. Creative solutions can be brought. For example, the use of alarm clocks is a useful way to solve early waking problems. Your child will then know that he / she should stay in bed until the alarm sounds. And when he does, he can get a little reward from you. At first he will play the alarm in his bed, but he will wake up in time and learn to fall asleep again.
Physical Activity:
In this period when they are physically very active, spending their energy will contribute to their development and sleep. When they are very tired, you can put them to sleep earlier than usual.
Television & Technology:
Television etc should never be in sleep routine. Therefore, you will have to determine the time they will spend with technology considering the recommendations of the experts, as they will increase their interest especially at these ages.
Night terror, fears and nightmares:
Most children around the age of 2-3 can have nightmares at night.
The reasons for this are; Excessive fatigue, inadequate sleep, any image he sees on television, negativity experienced during the day, or disorder in sleep time can be considered.
If your child has nightmares at night and wakes up fearfully; you must be with him and make him feel safe.
Night terror; it is generally more common in children over 4 years of age. This can take a few minutes or more, and your child is suddenly screaming in the middle of the night and then making moan-like sounds, experiencing fear, breathing fast, sweating and showing uncontrolled movements.
In this case, you should wait patiently to calm down, as you will not notice you even if you try to intervene.
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