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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 03 2017, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the zzzzzz-WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! dept.

Some Soylentils have managed to reproduce, so this study, which has findings on how to keep the young ones keep sleeping through the night, might be useful.

Overall, studies indicate that 15 to 20 percent of one to three year olds continue to have nightwakings. According to Stephanie Zandieh, M.D., Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Apnea Center, The Valley Hospital, "Inappropriate sleep associations are the primary cause of frequent nightwakings. Sleep associations are those conditions that are habitually present at the time of sleep onset and in the presence of which the infant or child has learned to fall asleep. These same conditions are then required in order for the infant or child to fall back to sleep following periodic normal nighttime arousals."

Sleep associations can be appropriate (e.g., thumb sucking) or problematic (e.g., rocking, nursing, parental presence). "Problematic sleep associations are those that require parental intervention and thus cannot be reestablished independently by the child upon awakening during the night," adds Dr. Zandieh.

Here are some helpful tips to help your child sleep through the night:

Every child is different, but the techniques seem sensible and worth trying, such as giving them a security blanket (or teddy bear, etc) when being put to bed to signal it's time to sleep.


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday January 04 2017, @03:44AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday January 04 2017, @03:44AM (#449218) Journal

    Just to note -- it is generally possible to find somewhere else for parents to do what they want. Get creative! Surely you must have had sex somewhere else than the bed before the kid came along? Most young kids tend to go into a very deep sleep (particularly if they're really tired) soon after they first fall asleep. So parents can get up, go someplace else, and do what they want. Or schedule your "private time" during the kid's afternoon nap. Or whatever.

    Also, this is probably a little less likely for people raised in modern Western culture to believe, but until the 19th century, most families just shared a bed. When Mom and Dad wanted to do something else late at night, they'd just roll over together and do it. It's a modern prudishness about sex and the belief that somehow kids can't be exposed to it that leads to these conundrums.

    Nevertheless, I probably can't recommend the practice nowadays, even if it's what people did for thousands of years. Today, you'd probably be branded a "pervert" of some sort and have Child Protection Services showing up at your door if anyone discovered parents doing a natural act in bed next to a sleeping child.

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