Stress Mother, Baby Sleep Difficult

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Did you know, it turns out the baby can feel pressure or pain experienced by his mother? When maternal depression, difficulty sleeping baby.

A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics showed that emotional problems experienced by a mother and infant sleep habits are closely related, even to parents who already have children a few times.

Approximately two-thirds of mothers who experience depression after giving birth will have a baby with sleep patterns that are not good. Mothers who are depressed or stressed it will interfere with its ability to provide the necessary emotional warmth in the development of the baby and help her sleep.

These conditions will make the baby's mother who has depression or stress will have less sleep problems than babies whose mothers do not stress. This shows that most babies who have trouble sleeping was due to the influence of her mother's emotional factor.


Studies conducted Roseanne Armitage and colleagues from the University of Michigan found that infants whose mothers had a history of stress or depression will have irregular sleep patterns. The baby so can not distinguish when to sleep and when to wake up because maternal stress is not able to provide warmth and comfort for the baby to sleep, such as reported by Health.MSN.com, Tuesday (1 / 3).

According to Harriet Hiscock, a pediatrician from the University of Melbourne, Australia, a number of things you can do for your baby to sleep well is:

1. Let the baby fall asleep with his own style
2. Having a consistent bedtime about when a baby should sleep and wake
3. Try the mother has a good mood when holding a baby, because babies can feel the anxiety or fear experienced by mothers
4. If the mother is calm, gendonglah baby so that she could feel the heartbeat of mother and have direct skin contact
5. When the baby cries, look for a moment until she felt calm again

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