How Long Should Children Sleep Every Day?

Sleep is one of the activities that are useful, especially in children. Enough sleep allows the brain and other organs to develop and work optimally. In addition, hormones produced even more active while sleeping. It is important to improve the quality and efficiency of the brain as well as expedite the transport of amino acids from the blood to the brain.

Although sleep is very important, but too much sleep can also cause children lazy and less productive. Just how long the child should sleep every day? Is your child is ever too much sleep so less active or even lack of sleep?

The time it takes the child to sleep, actually vary depending on age. Here is a guide to good bedtime for children, as quoted from the Parents Zone:

1. Newborn

Babies will spend more than 75% of their time sleeping or unntuk about 18 hours or more a day. In the age of the baby, sleep assisting the process of growth and development.

2. Infants 1-4 Months

Infants between 1-4 months of age still spends all his time to fall asleep, which is about 14 to 16 hours each day.

3. Children 1-3 Years

Children at this age takes between 12-15 hours of sleep each day. For naps, children need about 2-3 hours and most of them can sleep through the night with a regular sleep schedule.

4. Children 3-5 Years

Toddlers this age need 11 to 13 hours of sleep each day. At this age, more nap time is reduced so as not to disrupt the child's bedtime at night.

5. Children 5-12 Years

School-age children typically takes 9 to 11 hours of sleep. At this age children need less sleep or more depending on the level of activity they do.

6. Age Teens

In the teenage years, children are beginning to activism ranging from homework, tutoring, playing, watching television or playing computer games. All of these activities can reduce their sleep time. Actually a good bedtime for teens is about 10 hours each day. Even children age 15 and still need more sleep than adults.

Seeing the importance of adequate sleep, as well as its influence on the development of the child, where the role of the parent is required to keep the child's sleep patterns with mebiasakan to sleep on time.

Good Sleep Position During Pregnancy

In the early trimester pregnant women can sleep with any position that may give comfort to herself, because her stomach was not dilated. Pregnant women usually begin to worry when entering the second trimester. But actually pregnant women do not need to worry.

Why? For verily the mother's body is so uniquely made ​​so as to provide protection. in addition, for the fetus in the womb of pregnant women never feel uncomfortable because its existence is floating in amniotic fluid and have their own space to move freely. However pregnant women should also be careful in choosing a sleep position, such as the following tips:

Sleep with the prone position

  This position is actually quite safe for pregnant women. But usually after the first trimester of pregnancy, due to breast augmentation and breast are also more sensitive to stimuli would cause inconvenience to sleep on his stomach. And at a time when your stomach has started to grow (14 weeks early) sleeping with the prone position became very uncomfortable because you have to support the thigh with a pillow to sleep on his stomach because the stomach began to swell.

With Supine sleeping position

  This position at the recommended after 16 weeks of pregnancy pregnant women not to sleep on your back, because the supine sleeping position you will put the entire weight of the uterus to the back, intestines, and the inferior vena cava. Supine sleeping position also may increase the risk of back pain, hemorrhoids, and indigestion, and interfere with breathing and circulation. Supine sleeping position in the second and third trimester can also affect blood pressure. For some women, it can cause a decrease in blood which makes them feel dizzy, for others even increase blood pressure. In the case of pregnancy with high blood pressure, sleep in the supine position is not recommended.

Sleeping With Tilt Position

Then how sleep position is best? Until now there has been no further research on safe sleeping positions for pregnant women. But highly recommended after 16 weeks of pregnancy, pregnant women should sleep on his side to the left, because this position gives advantage for your baby to get the blood flow and nutrients to the placenta because of the maximal large vein (vena cava inferior) right rear svina that restores blood flow to the lower body to the heart. which can also help the kidneys to remove excess fluid from the body product and mom so reduce swelling in the feet, legs and hands ankle.

  Sleeping position to the right is also good. You can change the position to the right and to the left to make your sleep more comfortable.

  If you wake up at night and find it turns out you sleep on your back, you do not kwawatir because you are not doing anything to harm your baby. Go back to the tilted position. Anyway late in pregnancy, in which the stomach was enlarged, along with other conditions such as cramps, frequent urination, false contractions, the baby is kicking the stomach, a sense of increased stomach acid that will cause pregnant women would wake up several times at night, because pregnant women are will definitely change position several times and automatic sleep not sleep on supine position.

   Tip: To sleep on his side a more comfortable place the pillow between your knees and one on your back. Or you can buy a special pillow pregnant women

First three months of pregnancy tips

Get pregnant is a gift beyond measure from the Almighty. Picture of a cute baby will soon be realized, seemed complete with the presence of a family baby. However, not only the shadow of happiness alone, living a healthy pregnancy is a matter that needs to be considered and carried out by the pregnant women. Pregnancy requires vigilance and care to avoid things that are not desirable. It is therefore necessary tips to keep the pregnancy being undertaken persists healthy. Here are some tips that can be done by pregnant women during the first three months of pregnancy

• Find out as much as possible about how to lead a healthy pregnancy either through books, news media, television, internet, etc..
• And immediately start getting used to wearing loose clothes, although not visible enlarged abdomen.
• In the first trimester, pregnant women often experience nausea and vomiting, one of which can lead to dehydration, therefore multiply pregnant women to drink water or fruit juice outside eating schedule.
• Eat easily digestible foods such as rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.
• Avoid foods that contain high levels of fat or greasy as fried or fatty meats.
• Avoid various kinds of odors that sting or not preferred, it is to prevent pregnant women from nausea and vomiting.
• Make it a habit to brush your teeth after eating pregnant or after vomiting.
• To avoid dizziness nausea and other, try slowly when pregnant women about to wake up from sleep or lie down, do not do it all at once and spontaneously
• It helps pregnant women eat small meals but often, it is also to prevent pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting
• Provide always drinks and snacks that contain low levels of salt near the bedroom, this is done in order to account after eating these foods, pregnant women avoid nausea and vomiting when will the move. Snacks that can be served, among others, such as biscuits, whole wheat bread, or fruits.
• Join or find a friend who is also going through pregnancy, or join communities of pregnant women, in order to exchange ideas and experiences.
• Eat snacks in the morning before getting out of bed.
• Drink warm milk when pregnant women suffer from insomnia or difficulty sleeping.
• When women experience constipation, drink at least 12 glasses of water a day.
• If a pregnant woman feels pain in the lower abdomen and visible presence of blood spots, especially after pregnancy age> 4 weeks, call your doctor immediately.