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Posted on 19th Aug 2010 @ 2:58 AM

This stage, the baby is to enhance and develop these skills, which may make him unable to sleep because of excitement, or wake up at night to practice skills. If he can not wake up to their quiet back to sleep, crying will find you.

9 to 12 months, the typical baby sleep
This stage of your baby to sleep at night about 11 to 12 hours, daytime nap and 2 (each 1.5 to 2 hours). To ensure that the baby had enough sleep - sleep is essential for the baby's growth and development. Also to try to insist that your baby naps during the day at a fixed time. If not, let your baby sleep at night there will be more difficult, and the number of times he would wake up at night more.
How do you help your baby establish healthy sleep habits?
This phase should continue to adhere to you and your baby in the baby 6 to 9 months to learn the methods, including:
1. Adhering to a fixed procedure before going to bed.
Every night before going to bed a fixed procedure for you and your baby are all good - how to say it will not be excessive. You can choose the people who read the test of effective ways - to the baby a bath, reading a bedtime story, and gave him the quilt cover, or in the process to add a quiet game. To ensure that every night by the same procedure. Stable and orderly habits conducive to the healthy growth of your baby, when your baby to know what happens next, he will feel more secure. To ensure your baby like your bedtime procedures such content. For example, if your baby does not like a bath, then took a bath earlier in the day time to change. If your baby is more likely to bite the book, not listen to you read, you can also sing to him.
2. Make sure your baby develop a regular sleep schedule - including at night and daytime naps.
If you try to make your baby's daily routine during the day also maintained the law, then he would sleep easier at night. If your baby is about the same time every day nap, eat, play, and well prepared before going to bed, he will more easily fall asleep smoothly.
3. Ample opportunity for their baby to sleep.
Let your baby have the opportunity to exercise this important skill, it is crucial. If he depends on the milk, shake, or listening to a lullaby to fall asleep, he awoke in the middle of the night, it may be crying, and need your help to fall asleep again.
You may encounter problems
Your baby grow up to this time to begin to achieve some important milestones of development, including sit, stand up, and possibly even crawling, clutching something to stand up, walk and so further study. This stage, the baby is to enhance and develop these skills, which may make him unable to sleep because of excitement, or wake up at night to practice skills. If he can not wake up to their quiet back to sleep, crying will find you. Most experts believe that you came to see him there is no problem, but you should do next, experts may have different opinions. (Reminder: the skills of your baby at this stage the rapid development and growth of the surge is not the same thing children, so you give your baby in the middle of the night and could not help him sleep better. In fact, this may also delay problems, and make the situation worse.)
Your baby may also be separation anxiety, waking up in the middle of the night the number increased. You are not around, he'll think of you and worry you do not come back. This case, if you walked into his room and say hello to him, he will most likely calm down.