Not exact matches
Consider this:
waking your daughter to feed her when she isn't hungry could create a habitual
waking — a nightly
waking that
becomes programmed into her sleep
cycle and is difficult to correct.
When he
wakes up during the night — as all children and adults do as part of the natural sleep
cycle — he'll
become alarmed and cry for you instead of being able to go back to sleep.
It was amazing to me the way our sleep
cycles became synchronized — I would awaken seconds before my baby roused, we would nurse and then fall easily back to sleep without my husband
waking up at all — there was hardly ever a need for the baby to cry at night.
Sleep associations make self - soothing difficult because when he
wakes in between sleep
cycles, he will cry out and
become agitated, restless and confused until that familiar feel / smell / motion is provided to help him return to sleep.
Overtiredness — When we allow ourselves to
become overtired, we experience restless sleep which is more likely to
wake us up in between sleep
cycles.
On the contrary, some other parents experience unpredictable sleep -
wake cycles in early weeks but then find that their 3 month old babies» sleep
become more settled.
The researchers published their results in the journal Neuron,
becoming the first to show the effects of sleep /
wake cycles and time of day on the synapses of a living vertebrate.
In addition, melatonin in central to regulating the correct sleep -
wake cycle, and this
cycle can often
become disrupted in those with depression or anxiety.
The more consistent that you can be with your food intake during your
waking hours, the more in sync your body can
become with this daily
cycle.
You'll
wake up, screaming that you have
become part of the rinse
cycle at a car wash.
Especially in a delicate interval such as the post-partum period this practice could
become extremely important, since it could help the dyad to face the need of mutual adjustment, facilitating regulatory processes and the establishment of sleep -
wake cycles.