By Tracy G. Cassels
With all the press scrambling to tell parents just to leave their kids to cry-it-out at night (see my response to the latest
here), I thought I’d just present a few of the many reasons a baby or toddler may be waking and/or crying in the night. And why you should respond.
許多媒體隨便建議父母應該讓孩子在晚上接受
cry it out哭泣式睡眠訓練 (對此請看
我的回應),我要提出一些寶寶晚上會醒來哭的原因,以及為何你應該要回應哭泣。
1. They are hungry. Especially younger babies need to nurse frequently and expecting them to sleep long stretches without food is actually starving them and messing with their ability to regulate how much they eat at a given time.
寶寶餓了。特別是年幼寶寶需要常常喝奶,期待寶寶睡久一點而不喝奶實際上會造成挨餓,並妨礙他調整一段時間該吃多少的能力。