Lack of sleep in breastfeeding, what to do if you don t get enough sleep in breastfeeding

There are many reasons for lack of sleep during breastfeeding, which can be caused by excessive mental stress after childbirth, or it can be caused by the baby's sleep time being opposite to the mother's normal sleep schedule. Lack of sleep during breastfeeding can be improved by adjusting your baby's sleeping time, trying to make your baby develop the habit of sleeping at night or relaxing, etc.

Suggestions: 1. Try to relax yourself, don't put too much pressure on yourself, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, and avoid postpartum anxiety. 2. As much as possible, let the baby develop a routine of sleeping at night and playing during the day, and at the same time, the mother's family should also join in the process of raising the child and share the responsibility of the mother raising the child.

Lactating insomnia is the most common sleep disorder encountered by mothers, and the specific conditioning method can minimize the time you spend with your child, create a more suitable environment for sleep, or drink a glass of milk, drink a bowl of millet porridge, soak warm water feet, and listen to comfortable **. In terms of diet, you can eat more foods rich in vitamin B, such as jujubes, ejiao, etc. If it is insomnia caused by nervous system disorders caused by postpartum endocrine disorders, you should pay attention to physical adjustment, including physiotherapy, as well as traditional massage, and you can also take relatively small short-acting drugs, such as gamma oryzanol.

Pregnant women should also pay attention to their children's sleep time, and try to make their children's sleep time mostly at night, so as to ensure that their sleep is not affected.

Breastfeeding generally has this problem, because feeding children will definitely affect the normal sleep time of the mother, but breastfeeding is very important, as long as the mother feeds scientifically and adjusts her sleep time, it will generally not affect her health, after all, breastfeeding cannot be stopped, and the time is also limited.

If the child breastfeeds for a long time and many times at night, it is easy for the mother to be tired and sleep deprived, only adjust their sleep time, and try to sleep for a while during the day when the child sleeps to relieve the lack of sleep at night.

It is very hard for a mother to take a baby, breastfeeding a child, beneficial to the baby, for the mother, resulting in malnutrition, lack of sleep, only to improve the nutritional status, then the quality of sleep will be improved accordingly!

Breastfeeding sleep deprivation should stay awake with your child during the day, so that you can recuperate your body.

Most of the sleep disorders in children are difficulty falling asleep, of course, in addition to difficulty falling asleep, there are also sleep disorders in children such as sleep apnea, hypopnea syndrome, and central sleepiness. First of all, children's insomnia is related to some interactions between learning, life and family members experienced by children during the day. If a child is tired during the day, has a certain amount of pressure, or has certain conflicts with family members and classmates, or experiences some more terrifying and dangerous things during the day, he may have insomnia and other disorders, and often does not need medication**.

If all of the above factors are ruled out and the child still has insomnia, then further medically related diagnosis and ** may be required. In addition to insomnia, children may also experience sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, excessive sleepiness, etc., which also require further diagnosis and ** by a sleep specialist.

There are two main considerations for the causes of poor sleep in children. The first is gastrointestinal dysfunction, and the second is calcium deficiency. Children with gastrointestinal disorders usually have a gurgling stomach and other sounds of accelerated intestinal peristalsis, some have gastrointestinal symptoms such as constipation and diarrhea, and young children have green stools or milk flaps.

In this case, you can take some probiotics, such as Mommy Love. For the child's calcium deficiency, it is recommended that the hospital check the level of vitamin D and blood calcium, and if there is a calcium deficiency, it is recommended to supplement vitamin D and calcium carbonate granules appropriately.

If you have trouble sleeping during breastfeeding, it is considered that it may be related to irregular sleep and overwork caused by breastfeeding. Due to the lactation period, it is not recommended to take some Western medicines**, taking Western medicines will have a great impact on the child.

Therefore, it is recommended to take some traditional Chinese medicine for conditioning, which can be done by taking tranquilizing brain tonic liquid or seven-leaf tranquilizing tablets, and taking methylcobalamin and other drugs at the same time for conditioning. At the same time, drink a glass of milk before going to bed and try to eat as light as possible.

If it still doesn't work, consider taking hypnotic medications**, but need to stop breastfeeding temporarily.

After giving birth to a baby, new mothers have to breastfeed and take care of the baby, and the work and rest time cannot be as normal as before, so it will lead to many new mothers experiencing lack of sleep, and even suffer from so-called postpartum depression.

Therefore, new mothers should know that if they do not get enough sleep, then it will affect their health. How to take care of your baby when you are not healthy? Therefore, starting half an hour before bedtime, new mothers should not be busy preparing this and that for their babies.

On the contrary, you can sit down and do some relaxing things, such as reading a book, listening to **, giving yourself a massage, etc., these are all ways that can be very good for you to sleep and relax physically and mentally.

If you don't sleep well during breastfeeding, eat something that helps you sleep.

Postpartum new mothers can eat more foods that help improve sleep quality, such as foods rich in B vitamins (pork, milk, beef, eggs, peanuts, whole grains, etc.), foods rich in tryptophan (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, etc.), and foods rich in calcium (milk, beans, etc.). In addition, chrysanthemum rub and honey are both natural calming products, so pregnant mothers may wish to drink a small cup of chrysanthemum tea mixed with honey before going to bed.

However, new mothers should pay attention to eating less before going to bed at night, otherwise it may affect the quality of sleep due to indigestion, then it is counterproductive.

Moderate exercise for poor sleep during breastfeeding.

Doing a moderate amount of exercise before bed can help new mothers sleep, and not only that, but exercise before bed can also help improve the quality of sleep for new mothers. In addition, it is best for new mothers to control the time of exercise before going to bed within 3 hours, so that they can achieve the effect of not making you too excited, but also making you fall asleep peacefully, which is what new mothers should pay attention to.

If you don't sleep well during breastfeeding, follow your baby's rest routine.

You must know that the sleep and eating time of newborn babies are not fixed, and for newborn babies, they need to drink milk in the middle of the night. Therefore, the best way to ensure that new mothers get enough sleep is to follow the baby's rest routine.

In general, for a newborn baby, about 15 hours of sleep a day, for us adults, only 8 hours of sleep is enough. So when the baby is sleeping, whether it is day or night, as long as you feel tired, then you can lie down and rest. New mothers should not underestimate these times, because these short rest times can also keep you with enough energy, so you must make good use of them.

There is no way to do this for the time being, the child needs night milk in the first place, and breastfeeding has to get up at night, and frequent waking up at night will lead to insomnia. Only when the child is older and can quit night milk, then the milk production will be smaller, and the milk will not rise at night, and you can sleep for the whole night.