“Does it make you sleep at night?“In the black list of questions never to be addressed to a new parent there is certainly the one relating to children’s sleep and, in all likelihood, his dark circles will reveal the reason.
One problem, that of sleepless nights for moms and dads, which also the science he wanted to make his contribution. It had in fact been one research conducted by the University of Warwick and published in the magazine Sleep, to reveal what a child can bring short-term effects on parental sleep, especially in the first three months after birth. And not only that: because, according to this study, sleep disorders would continue, for both parents, until at least the child’s sixth year.
What to do then?
Per help parents to overcome the impasse, in recent years, several have been developed theoretical methods then transformed in self help manuals ready to use. From the now legendary “Go to sleep” by Eduard Estivill up to the bedtime book “The rabbit that wanted to fall asleep”, a soporific story – in the literal sense of the term – to be read with a slow and calm tone of voice in order to make the child sink into the arms of Morpheus.
Last released in bookstores, just in these days, “Go to sleep all night”: published by Sperling & Kupfer and written by doctor Sofia Axelrod, neuroscience scholar, sleep coach and mother of two, the book offers a scientific method for making babies sleep based on the latest research on sleep and chronobiology. Among the many solutions and strategies proposed to parents, even that of change the light bulb in the child’s room, a small trick that, despite what one might think, would be able to reduce the number of awakenings.
But if the manuals can offer some useful hints, a influence parents and ad thus increasing frustration and discomfort of the sleepless nights, are often the many popular beliefs that circulate on the matter. False myths and unsolicited advice that ends up fueling useless expectations and therefore generating even more distrust when the baby does not sleep “as it should”. Among the great classics, “better let him cry”, “if you breastfeed him, he will hardly sleep through the night“And the elusive”you have to teach him to fall asleep alone”.
Precisely for this reason, on the occasion of the World Sleep Day, which is celebrated on March 19, the portal dottori.it asked the doctor Pietro Sciacca, pediatrician and lecturer at the Department of Pediatric, Gynecological, Microbiological and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Messina, to help us dispel the most common myths about children’s sleep.
Sleepy parents, it’s time for recovery: in the gallery above the 8 false beliefs on children’s sleep, to be dismantled immediately … if not to go back to sleep at least to live the night watches more peacefully.
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