Why can’t my baby sleep well as before? What Moms must know about baby’s sleep regression problems.
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Why can’t my baby sleep well as before? What Moms must know about baby’s sleep regression problems. Copywriter2020 Oct 21, 2020·5 min read

What happens when you “Rock-a-bye baby, don’t you cry”, or sing sweet dreams lullabies to your babies, yet they are still sleepless? Loss of ideas on how to make your baby sleep soundly like a log? Here’s some useful advices to help you and your baby through this ordeal!

First and foremost, parents must recognize the reason of baby’s sleep regression tendencies. Just like us, the developing grown-ups who experience the growing pains of insomniac sleep regressions, so does your little ones. For us grown-ups, we experience insomnia because of late sleeping, active minds during sleep or hormonal changes. Due to babies being the social beings like us, they capture their surroundings and these surroundings that they are learning from can cause them sleeping problems too, trying to interpret the meaning behind their surrounding environments. For this, babies start to lose their calming reflexes as well as they learn about anxieties and fears as part of their emotional development stage.

Similarly for your babies, they also have active minds during sleep especially when they are in pain such as teething or midnight hunger pangs. Another reason is because they are developing language skills, learning to recognize people, and trying to absorb understandings from their external environmental factors, so these factors cause them to have anxieties with unfamiliar external surroundings, which gives them busy minds just like us grown ones. Not only so, babies’ sleeping patterns and the sleeping hours alter biologically and naturally over time as they grow, whereby the requirement of sleep changes time to time. Also, if you are travelling in the car or bus or planes, your babies might not sleep tight and happily as they are in their own familiarized cribs which you put them in, in which the Chinese nations refer as “bed recognition”.

This common process which is seen by new parents as a problem occur during babies’ 4th — 12th months of their new lives. You often hear the common complaints from these parents who are caretaking their newborns:

Crying whenever they are laid on cribs

Trouble falling asleep / frequent waking up

Short naps

Intermittent crying, grumpiness or fussing, be it noon naps or bedtime

Fighting sleep

DID YOU KNOW?

SLEEP REGRESSIONS IN BABIES IS INEVITABLE, YET CAN BE LESSENED WITH GOOD BABYCARE MEASURES!

Unfortunately, you can’t prevent this from coming at all, because this is a part of their developmental stages, especially when your baby learns to talk, crawl or walk, or recognize smells and sounds. If your baby happen to be the lucky star who skips this sleep regression problem, then thank your lucky stars for this. However, if your baby has sleep regression, you shouldn’t be too anxious about it too, though it’s totally understandable that the baby’s sleep regressions can cause parents to be equally frustrated because they cannot rest well throughout the night as they have work or housekeeping next day.

What you can do to lessen the sleep regression symptoms is to give your troubled babies more attention and care, because during such struggling times, babies can throw tantrums more than usual unless you show them that you love them and are always there for their needs. At the same time on your side, you have to tag along with your baby’s sleeping patterns by letting them sleep at their timing and favorable environments when they need it. Most of all, never let your baby stay hyper or let them be overtired. Also, you yourself have to cooperate to stick to your usual sleeping schedule, because when your sleep schedule changes, your baby won’t be able to adapt your sleeping schedule even if you are able to adapt to such changes. This is because babies recognize and process changes in their little minds very much slower than us.

Here are also additional tips to help your baby overcome sleep regressions: