How to change the habit of making it difficult for babies to sleep?

If your baby is too sleepy to sleep, avoid excessive fatigue. When your baby is a little sleepy, put him to sleep immediately. You will definitely not be able to fall asleep if you are not sleepy at all. This is easy to understand. You can increase exercise during the day, let the baby lie down more, do passive exercises, etc. to discharge the baby. I want to focus on the second situation, that is, being too sleepy makes it difficult to fall asleep. According to our sleep common sense, when you are sleepy and tired, you will naturally fall asleep. The more tired and sleepy you are, the faster you will fall asleep. According to the "Infant and Toddler Sleep Bible", according to research, this is not the case at all. Once a baby is too sleepy, he will fall asleep due to excessive fatigue. It will be difficult to fall asleep. If they want to sleep but cannot fall asleep, they will be irritable and troublesome, making it even more difficult to get them to sleep. In fact, adults must have had similar experiences. Sometimes they are too tired to fall asleep. Therefore, we must prevent the baby from being overtired, otherwise it is easy to form a vicious cycle: that is, being overtired and unable to sleep, and then sleeping less and becoming more tired. If this continues to accumulate, it will be more difficult to fall asleep, and it will become difficult to sleep. , and due to lack of sleep, children who do not sleep well will have bigger tempers and are more likely to cry and lose their temper. Then even an angel baby will turn into a "little devil" in terms of sleep. Babies actually get tired very easily. They do a lot of exercise. Breastfeeding is equivalent to running. Changing diapers also keeps dancing and moving, raising their heads as if they are doing push-ups. I remember Sears’ book said that an athlete tried to imitate a baby. The movements are exhausting after a few hours!

The "Infant and Toddler Sleep Bible" mentions that babies usually become sleepy after being awake for no more than 2 hours during the day and need a nap. This is basically the case for Dundun now, and they wake up for 1.5 to 2 hours. You will feel sleepy and start to release some sleepy signals (sleep signals will be discussed in detail later). When I receive the signal that he is sleepy, I will immediately put him on the bed and let him sleep. At first, my old man didn't believe it and said that he was having a good time. How could he look sleepy? However, after many times, it was proved that I was right, and he fell asleep soon after putting him on the bed. Now the old man also understands that he must put the baby to sleep in time, and cannot let him get too sleepy and unable to fall asleep. For adjusting to excessive fatigue, the solution given in the Sleep Bible is to try to put the baby to sleep 2 hours earlier at night, so that the baby can slowly catch up on sleep. This is how I adjusted him during the time when he was having a hard time coaxing him to sleep during the confinement period. In the past, the confinement sister-in-law would start coaxing her to sleep at 7 or 8 o'clock after dinner. I asked her to go to bed at 5 or 6 p.m., and sure enough, Slept much better. After that, I also paid great attention to not letting him get too tired, and put him to sleep when he was a little sleepy, so Dundun basically did not have the problem of overtiredness. This may also be an important reason why I easily succeeded in independent sleep training for him.