Say baby, what you dream?

Responses scientists are still hypothetical about dreams Baby. One thing is sure, at night, it Cogitate!

What's more cute than mine Baby concentrated when he sleeps deeply and then suddenly the smile or frown as if a question, the capital, had to arise in his mind? This range of facial expressions is hiding secret intense life ...

Well, whatever the proponents of the "baby-vegetable". Few grams of soft full of love not only sleep blissfully they dream! and not just ...

8 hours a day dream!

You knew that already, many babies sleep, the newborn flying the record with 16 hours per day, per period of 3 to 4 hours. But did you dream that 50 to 60% of the time is 8 hours a day! Various experiments have shown that sleep is divided into several phases, accompanied by signs. Read the article on the train sleeping

You've always noticed that the "restless sleep", when baby shows mimic called "social" (smile, surprise pout, disgust, pain) that would almost believe he is awake. The brain electrical activity is intense, eyes move under the eyelids, small fingers agitated, etc..

It's the equivalent of sleep "paradoxical" in adults, during which we dream.
But the most surprising is that baby was already dreaming well before they are born ...

Dreams are essential to its development

Thanks to advances in ultrasound, it is possible to observe the twentieth week of gestation the fast movements of the eyes and fingers, signs that the fetus dreams too ... By the end of pregnancy, sleep "paradox" is indeed most of his "naps" as in the first months of life.

But why so much and especially at this time? In fact, the researchers suspect these phases of dreams to play a role in the development of central nervous system, therefore the brain at a time when Baby lack of external stimuli.

Even more surprising, these phases would be essential in the process of memory and even, according to another theory, "re-programming genetics.

They avoid that learning accumulated in the day too impregnate memory. In reliving the dream in its way, baby forge its own identity. This explains why, despite an identical environment, each toddler remains different .

Baby is an early bird!

Even if the future belongs to those who get up early, this is no reason to leave Baby you awaken to the aurora! Our tips for the wait in "his" room ...

Not easy to stand on the right foot when, at dawn and 7 days on 7, baby you tirelessly plays the fire Walkirie Richard Wagner with his tambourine! Or support it jumps on you while you just get to know Claudia Schieffer and Brad Pitt (in a dream, of course!) ...

But even if your little one is not a groundhog, it may, from an early age (around 5 / 6 months), learning to wait a little in his bed.

No, not necessarily baby hungry!

Once it has risen to four meals a day, he no longer needs the bib 'on the night. If he awoke at 5 / 6 h does not scream off at full speed towards the kitchen for him to heat the milk.

Let it rather "piailler" ten minutes perhaps going back to it? And if you really feel that it is not about to fall into the arms of Morpheus, plan for babies at least two years in a small snack (a boudoir and a little milk in a small bottle) for take care and help to wait until the morning. Place it near his bed so that it can be used alone or take it himself and recouche you!

Not enough sleep: Baby in bed rest

There is no doubt that if baby fell asleep at 21 pm and woke up at 5 am, his time of sleep is not enough. His internal rhythm is simply clamped together: Baby likes to play when the alarm clock, calls your arm, a bottle and then plays a little, is puts sleep again.

But on your side, impossible to return to sleep ... Your only chance to wake you up in shape? Baby to learn to going back, alone.

Black is black ... If the light passes between the slats of his store from 4 / 5 hour of the matt, baby may very well think "Yay! It is daytime so I get up. " Simple dark, thick curtains will overcome this problem.

Teach him the patience to wait ... for yourself! At first call, "plug your ears and wait 10/15 min before going to his room. Once with Baby, let him understand that this is not the time in whispers (as if it was the night!) That "there is no question of getting up now."