Sleep soundly Make Healthy Children

Children under the age of three years is a period of growth that must be observed by parents. One of them sleep problems. Many parents who do not care about the number of hours their children slept. The number of hours of sleep less than normal can affect the brain to grow flowers.


"Sleep is a basic need to grow flowers or baby batita. However, in reality, not many parents who realize that sleep quality is important for them," said the doctor sepesialis children also grow Konsultan Kembang Children, IDAI Jakarta, Rini Sekartini in the event Confidential sleep soundly with a small Johnson's baby is not old.

Enough time to sleep is very important for a baby or batita, because the brain during sleep mengonsolidasi memory and new knowledge. Muscle, skin, jatung system and blood vessel, body metabolism, and bone experiencing rapid growth during sleep kerena body produce growth hormone three times more than when he awakened.

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

Research Sekartini and colleagues in 2004-2005 in five major cities in Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Palembang and Batam) revealed that 72.2% of parents think the baby is sleeping problems or batita not a problem or just a small problem.

Number of hours sleeping in line with the different age levels. New born baby usually sleep for 16-20 hours per day, a baby aged 2-12 months the amount of time for sleep 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 an average of one-time siesta. If you are aged above 4 years old, a child may not need a siesta again.

To have the baby sleep soundly easy:
# Baby bath / batita with warm water
# Squeeze softly baby / batita
# Conducting quiet activities such as reading the tale, meninabobokan, play music or quiet lull before the baby / batita.

Rini said there are several factors that affect sleep in the night, namely physical problems (maturasi brain, hunger-satiety, rudiment of the tooth, ear, skin, indigestion channel, channel the breath, urine channel, muscles, bones), psychological (child's development stage, pattern of care, temperamen, activity) and environmental factors. It may cause the child fussy and difficult to sleep, and often awakened in the night.

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

In addition, note also the psychological condition improving care patterns, quality of touch, and identify temperamennya. Environmental factors also need to support.

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

Kerena importance by the time the baby to sleep or batita flowers to grow, said Marketing Manager Johnsons's baby Lita Sahbandar, if my age is golden so tersiasia only. For that, the product presents a series of Johnson's baby bedtime calm with natural material extracts from the jasmine blossoms that can help clinical baby / batita more easily and sleep soundly.

Based on clinical research conducted by Johnson & Johnson, said Lita, perform three steps with Johnson's baby bedtime on a regular basis can help batita sleep more easily and soundly, that is, 37% reduce the frequency batita awakened in the night and the 37% reduces the time required to sedate baby / batita.

Sleep problems that can affect the physical, cognitive, and movement. Physical disturbance of the interference can be a normal growth, the hormone during sleep, immune function of vulnerability, and iregulasi system endokrin. Iregulasi metabolik and accidents often occur in children who are sleepy.

Cognitive effects of this can be less concentration, less wary of responding slowly, weak memory, slow to make decisions memecahan problems, and disruption of learning.

In fact, sleep problems that also affect the movement of rough can slow or even excessive, while they affect the smooth movement can be less careful or careless.

source: solusisehat.net