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Posted on 5th Aug 2010 @ 4:01 AM

As the baby every day most of the time spent in sleep, the children's sleep may seem simple, but many of the problems hidden. Many parents coax children to sleep in and committed to correct the child's sleeping position on a lot of mistakes, but its totally unaware Bale. Here we have to carefully analyze the baby's sleeping position six errors.

1. Shake sleep
When your baby is crying or sleep disturbance, some young mothers put baby in the arms or into a cradle or rocking the baby cry more fierce, mother also the more violent shaking, sleep up until your baby.
Health hazards: the baby's brain shaking action will continue to shake the skull cavity, the brain will not mature and harder skull collided, resulting in rupture of small blood vessels in brain, causing "slight brain concussion syndrome", a concussion intracranial hemorrhage.
Experts advise: It is worth noting that this method is not suitable for 10 months, particularly within the small baby.
2. Paternity sleep
From the baby is born, it should actively encourage him to sleep alone, and habit. Even newborns should not sleep with a blanket with the mother.
Health hazards: Because my mother, after sleeping a little It would be pressure in the baby body, causing suffocation. U.S. survey data confirm this, that is to let the baby sleep alone can reduce 60% of sudden death.
Experts advise: Mom accompany long-term sleep, the baby will appear a kind of "Oedipus" psychological, to the kindergarten or primary school age, and her mother will be very difficult to separate. This will also troubles school phobia in Japan, the examination stress disorder, the adverse physical and mental development of the baby.
3.Overlooking the sleep
Experts found that sudden infant death syndrome and sleeping position, in particular to face down the danger of overlooking the most sleep.
Health hazards: a small child generally will not turn over their own, and can not take the initiative to avoid obstacles in front of nose and mouth, which in the obstructed airway, only absorbed into the air and very little oxygen; with digestive organs, imperfect, when the stomach peristalsis, increased intragastric pressure, the food will reflux, blocking the already narrow airway, causing sudden infant death.
Experts suggest: expert survey, baby's sleeping position is the safest on their backs. Such sleeping position can make airway smooth, to a certain extent to avoid sudden infant death.
According to statistics, since the promotion of the backs in the United States laws, have high incidence of sudden infant death syndrome was a sharp decrease, from 5,000 deaths per year dropped to less than 3,000 people, worthy of reference mothers.
4. Hug sleeping
Many mothers worry that babies sleeping in an accident, often round the bed. In fact, this just increases the chance of accidents.
This approach has four major hazards:
1) hug your baby to sleep to make it difficult to breathe fresh air, and inhaled more air is filthy quilt.
2) tends to wake up to nurse your baby develop bad habits, thus impeding the baby's appetite and digestion.
3) limits the freedom of movement when the baby sleep, hard to stretch the body, affecting the normal blood circulation.
4) if the mother had cooked sleep, accidentally blocking the baby's nostrils, teats and may even cause suffocation and other serious consequences.
5. Turn on the lights to sleep
Some young mothers for the convenience of the night feeding, changing diapers, baby often open all night the light in the bedroom, which have an adverse effect on the baby.
Health hazards: Medical research shows that babies sleep the night lights of the environment, can lead to sleep disturbance, sleep time, and then slow down the growth rate. Because the baby's nervous system is still in development stages, to adapt to environmental changes of the regulatory function of the difference, the bedroom lights on all night long, is bound to change the day the body to adapt to the natural order of Ming at night, affecting the baby normal metabolism, damage growth and development.
Experts advise: According to the report of the British scholar, sleeping room open a little light in 30% of children become myopic, and the room lights in the children the incidence of myopia and up to 55%.
6. Naked
High summer temperatures, some mothers let the baby naked in bed, in order to cool.
Health hazards: baby regulate temperature difference, easily catch cold, especially in the abdomen, once cold, can increase bowel movement, resulting in diarrhea.
Experts advise: even if summer is also not to allow the baby naked, the best chest covered in a thin layer of baby clothing, or wear a small stomachers sleep.