How deeply disturbing is the unknown! She is second only to the fear of death and public speaking. A small child is faced with changes every month, they can disturb him. Given that they do not depend on it, this further increases the baby's basal anxiety. The daily routine is the most important tool for making your baby's life more orderly and therefore safer.
Baby 4 months
The importance of daily regimen
The daily routine allows you to make orderly not only the life of the child, but also of the parents, who are no longer dependent on the slightest cry of the child and can plan their day, getting rid of their own anxiety.
Baby 4 months
Also, the daily routine from the earliest years trains the infant's discipline and willpower, which primarily determine his success in life. The main thing is not to overdo it and adapt to the individual preferences of the child.
Basic principles of a four-month-old baby's day regimen:
- Individuality. It is necessary to take into account children's biorhythms. To be guided not by your own ideas about what the child needs, but to try to guess what the child wants.
- Reasonable compromise. The older the child is, the more rigid the daily routine is permissible. In this case, the main principle is by strength. The daily routine is not a rigid law, but it should be.
- Sequence. If parents first tightly control the daily routine, then they themselves violate it, this harms the child and teaches him to think that promises made to himself are not necessary to follow.
- Flexibility. A logical continuation of the previous point. It also needs balance. On the one hand, it is undesirable to change the regime, because it makes the child undisciplined and makes him nervous (after all, one of the functions of the regime is to ensure stability). On the other hand, the child grows, his needs and desires change, and the plan needs to be adapted to them.
The basic principles of scheduling may at first glance contradict each other. But all life is woven from opposites. It is the resolution of contradictions that forms creativity, without which it is impossible to raise a child.
Baby's wakefulness 4 months
Common mistakes parents make when teachingand to the regime of the day:
- Disregard of children's biorhythms. At first, a child may not understand what the parent wants from him, especially if at the moment his biological clock is set to a different time.
- Interfere with sleep when the child needs it. Often times, parents literally approach scheduling. If the plan says that the baby is awake at this time, then it should be so. It is not right. A baby under 6 months should sleep about every two hours. Otherwise, he will become nervous and interfere with the calmness of the parents.
Interesting. As the child grows, it takes less time to sleep and more time to learn about the world. At the same time, the components remain the same: sleep, food, natural needs, games, massage.
Teaching your baby to the daily routine
The main rule that must be followed if there is a desire to create a regimen for a 4-month-old child: if the child wants to eat and sleep, it must be given to him. In this case, the breast is given to the baby every 3 hours. If you do this more often, the milk will not have time to ripen and will be of poor quality. The result is an eternally hungry child who eats a lot.
Cheerful baby 4 months
If the baby is breastfed less often, he too will be hungry and thirsty. In addition, the emotional connection between the mother and the child is disrupted.
Important! Accustoming a child to the daily routine should not be carried out forcibly.
Before you form the daily routine of a 4-month-old child, it is necessary to record the time of all aspects of his life. The child wanted to eat - indicate when he did it. He cried - write down when. You can make an excel plate with the time, type of activity and parental comments. Synthesize the obtained data and create a regime on their basis.
As the child grows, monitoring of his activity should also be carried out to revise the schedule.
There are several recommendations on how to accustom your child to the regimen. Some of them are given by the famous doctor Komarovsky:
- Each age has a wakefulness rate that cannot be exceeded. At 4 months it is 9 hours a day. At the same time, 4-5 hours of sleep should fall per day (they need to be divided by three times), everything else is a night's sleep.
- Too much sleep is just as bad as not getting enough sleep. In this case, the child eats less, which negatively affects his health.
Thus, it is not difficult to accustom a child to the regime, given his needs.
Mode example
The approximate regimen of a child in the fourth month is as follows (him you need to constantly adapt to the changing child):
- 6:00. Awakening, hygiene procedures, the first feeding of the baby in the fourth month.
- 8:00. First dream.
- 9:00. Second feeding, educational games, communication with adults.
- 11:00. Walk in the fresh air. The child is sleeping at this time.
- 12:00. Third feeding, communication, educational games.
- 13:00. Daytime sleep.
- 15:00. Communication and games. Fourth feeding.
- 18:00. Fifth feeding.
- 20:00. Hygienic procedures.
- 21: 00-06: 00. Night sleep.
Attention! This is the schedule of a baby who is in her fourth month. If the baby is already 4 months old, it needs to be modified. You can increase the number of nighttime sleep hours and remove one feed.
In principle, the regimen of the day of a baby at 4 months who is bottle-fed does not differ. At the same time, the mother has fewer restrictions.
Baby sleep in the fourth month
At four months old, among infants, one can distinguish little "owls" and "larks". Children at this age sleep on average about 16 hours, of which 10 fall into the night sleep, 6 - during the day. In general, there is a decrease in the number of daytime hours in favor of nighttime hours.
Baby sleeping
As for how many times the child sleeps during the day, everything is individual here. The kid can doze four times, maybe two, if desired.
Although the approach to a baby in the fourth month should be individualized, periods of wakefulness should alternate with periods of activity. If the child has trouble sleeping at night, he can be put to bed later. It is important to ensure that the baby does not fall asleep earlier.
Baby food
Feeding a four-month-old baby is carried out five times due to the fact that the baby can eat more at a time.
Baby 4 months on the gw does not need complementary foods, since he has enough milk.
If the child is artificially fed, then instead of taking the mixture, he can be given complementary foods in the form of vegetable puree or grated cottage cheese with kefir.
The total volume of the mixture is 1 liter per day, at one time the child needs about 200 ml. When choosing complementary foods, you need to pay attention to the tastes of the baby and introduce new dishes gradually. One teaspoon is enough the first time. After about a week, you can give 150 milliliters at a time. If this amount is eaten by the baby with joy, one feeding can be replaced with complementary foods.
If the mother is not producing enough milk, mixed feeding is used. Then the baby eats both breast milk and formula. The proportion during mixed feeding is individual. On average, the ratio is as follows: breast milk - 500 milliliters, the mixture - 400, 150 milliliters goes to complementary foods.
Wakefulness mode
Wakefulness is the period when the child learns the world. All actions of parents should be aimed at this: walks, educational games, massages, bathing. Each of these components of child care can be filled with educational activities.
Walking
At 4 months, walks are possible in any non-extreme weather conditions. It is undesirable to walk during extreme heat and frost over 15 degrees. Also, sudden gusts of wind can harm the child. In all other cases, you need to regularly take your baby outside, even when it's raining.
It is recommended to do two walks lasting 1.5-2 hours. Moreover, it is desirable to carry out one of them during sleep.
One of the walks should resemble an excursion. The child needs to be introduced into this fascinating world, to show him everything that is possible, to tell him from an early age, as they say. The kid should explore the world with all his senses. Therefore, you can let him try, smell, touch, watch, hear what will not do harm. Moreover, to encourage the cognitive interest of the baby, this will greatly help him in the future.
Classes and educational games
This is an important part of communicating with your baby. There are many games designed to develop your child. For example, you can give an object to a baby and name it. After a while, you can ask the child, for example, where his toy is, he will start looking for it. This is necessary for the further development of speech.
Gymnastics and massage
At 4 months, the number of exercises that must be performed with the child increases. At this age, he tries to independently change his body position. Gymnastics is aimed at making the child begin to walk faster, sit down, be able to turn independently, and so on.
Bathing
To the standard bathing procedures at 4 months, hardening should also be added. It can be done with air baths or wet wipes. The first ones are held twice a day, their duration is 10 minutes. It is important that the temperature in the room is around 22 degrees.
Wet rubdown is done with a mitten dipped in warm water. Every three sessions, the water temperature drops by one degree, up to 30 degrees.
Violations of the daily routine
The reasons for the failure of the daily routine can be the irresponsible attitude of the parents, violation of the rules of nutrition, sleep, described above. For example, if complementary foods are introduced abruptly, the infant may become unwell. Also, the daily routine can get lost due to sleep.
It is necessary to establish the cause of the violation of the daily regimen in a newborn or baby. If it has arisen due to illness, you must consult a doctor. If the reason lies in improper sleep, it is necessary either to reduce the number of hours that the child sleeps during the day, or to put to bed earlier.
If the reason is complementary foods, then a violation of the daily routine may occur due to the incorrect introduction of a new dish into the diet. As a result, the child may become ill, he will not have time for sleep. It is also forbidden to dramatically change the diet.
The article discusses how to accustom a baby to the daily routine, why it is needed, what are its components, what is new, compared to three months. An individual approach is important here. The child has his own biorhythms, his schedule must be adapted to them. Then it will be much easier to accustom the toddler or baby to the routine.
