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What to Do About Baby Sleep DisordersThere are many reasons why a baby sleep disorder happens and one such cause may be the anxiety of parents in attending to their firstborn child, which may cause them to let the bedtime routine and other rules get neglected. In the case of boy infants, they are also more prone to contracting many problems such as SIDS, hyperactivity and miscellaneous conditions that can contribute to infant insomnia. Common Types Some common baby sleep disorder problems include: Body rocking, which may be considered normal baby behavior as an infant may find the back and forth movement to be a quite soothing way of falling asleep. Trying to stop body rocking is best achieved by using a low key routine that does not make the baby perceive it to be a challenge to which its response may be to resist and persist with the behavior. In case the baby's rocking is very loud or forceful, a solution may be to move the crib away from the wall. Also, at as early an age as four months, the baby may take to banging its head against the headboard of the crib. This type of baby sleep disorder can occur when the baby wants to soothe the pain that it's feeling when they are teething or have an ear infection. Though head banging may appear to be painful, in fact the infant isn't feeling any pain. One way of stopping this behavior is to play some soothing sounds such as from a ticking metronome near the crib. Sleepwalking, another baby sleep disorder, has not been explained by medical practitioners though as many as fifteen percent of infants will have experienced this sign of a baby sleep disorder. Sleepwalking may occur after an hour or two of falling asleep when the infant is in deep non-dreaming mode and may be caused by sleeping in strange places, getting little sleep during the day, or even from a high fever. The baby seems to be wide-awake when sleepwalking but in fact is not. You should not wake the child from sleep, instead try and guide him back to his bed. Keeping doors shut as well as locking windows will ensure that the child does not injure himself by falling down while sleepwalking. |
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