Sleep well, being healthy children

Sleep well, being healthy children
Children under the age of three years is a period of growth that must be taken by parents. One of the problems sleeping. Many parents are not concerned with the number of hours of sleep a child. Even the number of hours of sleep less than normal, which can affect the brain to grow flowers.

"Sleep is a basic need to grow flowers or a baby batita. However, in reality, many parents are not aware that sleep quality is very important for them," said the doctor sepesialis children Consultants also reviewed Grown Children, IDAI Jakarta, Rini Sekartini in the event Confidential sleep soundly with the smaller gecekorsani Johnson's not this long.

Time enough sleep is important for the baby or batita, because the brain during sleep mengonsolidasi memory and new knowledge. Muscle, skin, jatung system and blood vessels, body metabolism, and bone growth experienced during sleep due to growth hormone the body produces three times more than when he was awakened.

"Children who sleep with the same good health is also good," said Rini.

Research Sekartini and friends in 2004-2005 in five major cities in Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Palembang and Batam) revealed that 72.2% of parents think sleep problems in infants or batita not a problem or only a small problem.

The number of hours of sleep vary according to age level. A new born baby usually sleep for 16-20 hours per day, a baby aged 2-12 months the amount of time one reaches 9-12 hours at night with a siesta 1-4 times a day.

Children ages 12 months-3 years old usually sleep 12-13 hours a day with average sleep times a day. If you are in the age of 4 years old, a child may not need a siesta again.

To have the baby sleep soundly easy
# Bathing the baby / batita with warm water
# Squeeze soft baby / batita
# Conducting quiet activities like reading fairy tales, meninabobokan, or play music quietly lull before the baby / batita.

Rini said there are several factors that affect sleep on the night of the physical problems (maturasi brain, hunger, satiety, deviation of the teeth, ears, skin, the channel digested, napas channel, channel urine, muscle, bone), psychological (phases of the development of children, foster patterns, temperamen, activity) and environmental factors. It can cause children to sleep difficult and exacting, and often awakened in the night.

Reduce activity

Children who sleep less at night, then on daylight like slumber. To cope with sleep problems, said Rini, parents need to consider the physical condition of the baby or batita. If there is a problem must be solved immediately, for example, by reducing physical activity in the afternoon, before bed.

In addition, note also the psychological condition to improve with the foster system, the quality of touch, and know temperamennya. Environmental factors should also be supported.

According to Rini, sleep is a learned behavior and can be formed through kebiasan routines and sleep better. "Most ideal starting at the age of three to six months."

By the time due to the importance of sleeping babies or batita to grow flowers, said the Johnsons's Marketing Manager ANGEL atu Sahbandar, but the golden age tersiasia it. For that, the product presents a series of Johnson's bedtime ANGEL natural material with extracts from the calm jasmine blossoms, which can help in clinical infant / batita more easily and sleep soundly.

Based on clinical research conducted by Johnson & Johnson, said atu, with a three-step ANGEL Johnson's regular bedtime can help batita more easily and sleep soundly, namely, 37% reduce the frequency batita awake at night and 37% to reduce the time needed to sedate baby / batita.

Sleep problems that can affect the physical, cognitive, and movement. Disruption to the physical disruption can be a normal growth, expenditures during the sleep hormone, immune function vulnerability, and iregulasi system endokrin. Iregulasi metabolik and accidents often occur in children who are headed.

Effect of cognitive can be less concentration, less alert, which react slow, weak memory, slow to take the decision to memecahan problems, and disruption of learning.

In fact, sleep is problematic also affect the movement of rough that can actually slow or excessive, while the impact on the smooth movement can be less careful or careless.