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Posted on 5th Jun 2010 @ 12:17 AM

Napping is a catalyst for growth and development

Nutrition and sleep are the important factors which affect your baby's growth and development. Napping as a supplementary form of sleep at night is a great benefit for the baby's growth and developmen.
1. To improve diet, increase immunity
Through the activities of the morning, the baby's energy and strength have varying degrees of decline. So it is need for adequate sleep that will resume the body and mind of baby. A good nap can promote digestion and improve the appetite. In addition, the nap time will increas acid secretion in vivo cell wall, which is called the sleep science community material. It will promote sleep enhance the body's immune function. But note: It is not good for baby nap within 30 minutes after lunch.
2. To improve the fatigue, help brain development
Baby brain development not yet mature. The half-day activity will lead a physical and mental fatigue. Napping will be relaxed as possible for baby, so that the brain hypoxia ischemia be improved, and let the baby spirits responsive.
3. Relax time for parents, benefit for the healthy growth of baby
Let your baby develop a good habits of lunch break, that give parents more time to handle their own affairs or rest. Also in the secretion of growth hormone during sleep, and promote bone, muscle, connective tissue and internal organs of the growth and development. As the saying goes, the baby who love sleeping will grow faster is the truth.
Good sleep so start
1. Insist to nap everyday
Provides a good day to baby with sleep schedule, and eat, sleep, activity has a certain arrangement. This is important to develop good habits for baby. After several repeated training, your baby will form a conditioned reflex. It will automatically produce drowsiness when nap time is up, and slowly develop the habit of automatically fall asleep.
Please note: fixed a time of nap for baby, and to remind and urge the baby to sleep. And also give your baby suitable praise and encouragement.
2. Create a sleep environment
Fresh air is an important condition for the baby to fall asleep quickly. Baby's room should ventilate 45 minutes with 2 to 3 times a day. The temperature of room maintained at between 18 ~ 25 ℃. Although the bed or cradle arrangement can be a little personality, do not design the room full of toys. Keep quiet sleep environment when your baby nap.
Please note: If your baby is like listening to stories and go to sleep, You should with gentle tone, slow pace of storytelling. This will be good results, but do not tell thrilling stories of terror.
3. Reasonable arrangements for nap time
A half years old baby can sleep a nap during the day, and normally scheduled for the afternoon, slept 2 hours.
To ensure the baby a sober time woke up to 4 hours or more between nap and going to bed at night, so as not to affect the night-time sleep.

4 ways to make it easy to take a nap：
To create an environment as a night
Let room lights dim or turn off the lights before sleep of baby, and cover with the curtains, avoiding the midday sun glare. Then, put some soothing music, playing the role of hypnosis stable state of mind; mothers can also try to pat your baby gently, or touching the baby to create an environment similar to a quiet night of sleep.
• language hinting
Nap time is up, parents prompted the baby, "It is time to nap now." so that your baby develop a concept that "a nap and eat like one of the elements in the life." Or gently say "dark now, the moon and the stars are out, baby close your eyes to be a good dream!"
• strip preparation method
Bring your baby into the room when nap time coming, and help him / her with shoes and coat off, the hold him to bed, that will create a form a reflection and then fall asleep as soon as possible.
Do not feel bad to wake-up baby
The nap is good for baby's physical and mental health. But nap too long will affect your baby sleep at night. So do not feel bad to wake up your baby at the suitable time.