Does the child sleep late affect the growth of height, and is there any harm in sleeping late?Today, let's talk about the topic of children going to bed late.
1. Will children who sleep late not grow tall?
The reason why many parents have such worries is because they mistakenly believe in the idea that growth hormone is only secreted between what time and what time at night, and if the child does not sleep during this time period, he will miss the secretion of growth hormone and will not grow taller in the future.
But in fact, growth hormone is not secreted within a fixed period of time, but will be secreted in periodic pulses 24 hours a day!To put it simply, growth hormone increases secretion for a short period of time, then returns to normal secretion levels, and then increases secretion for a short period ......of time, and so on and so on
Studies have shown that the peak of growth hormone secretion mostly occurs in the stage of deep sleep, and the longer the child's sleep duration, the more growth hormone will be secreted.
Therefore, the child sleeps late and does not affect the growth of height. But parents should pay attention to going to bed late ≠ staying up late.
2. The difference between going to bed late and staying up late.
Sleeping late means that although you sleep late, you sleep regularly, and the duration and quality of sleep are ***
For example, a 6-year-old child sleeps at 11 p.m. and wakes up at 8 a.m. every day. If you can ensure 9 hours of sleep every day, and the child's sleep quality is very good, it means that the child's sleep is no problem.
Staying up late means that the child only goes to bed at 11 o'clock every night, gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning, and only sleeps for 6 hours.
Staying up late for a long time will cause children to have decreased concentration, irritability, memory loss, and even suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses!
Therefore, it is best for parents to help their children arrange their rest time reasonably according to their children's situation, and ensure that the overall sleep time of the day is up to the standard as much as possible.
3. Whether the child sleeps well or not, judge it this way.
Parents want to know how their children sleep every day, these three ** standards are indispensable:
1.Look at the length of sleep.
Babies of different ages have different sleep times and routines.
0 3 months of baby sleeps up to 14 17 hours throughout the day. The wake-up time between sleep is 45 minutes, almost in a eating-sleep cycle.
The total amount of sleep in the baby is 12-16 hours throughout the day, and the waking interval is 15~2.5 hours, 3 to 4 naps during the day.
6 9-month-old babies sleep 12 15 hours throughout the day, with a waking interval of 25~3.5 hours, 2 to 3 naps required during the day.
9 12-month-old babies sleep 11 14 hours throughout the day, with 3 4 hours between wakefulness. Fixed 2 naps can be done during the day.
12 18-month-old babies get a total of 11 to 14 hours of sleep per day. If your baby still has two naps during the day, the wakefulness interval is 3 to 4 hoursIf your baby has completed the sleep schedule and has only one nap during the day, the waking interval may increase to 5 to 6 hours.
Most babies begin to adjust to a nap schedule between the ages of 14 and 15 months. The germination of self-awareness will make the baby's resistance to fall asleep at this stage more obvious, but when the baby falls asleep, the sleep continuity is not bad.
2.Sleep quality.
Like adults, children do not sleep motionlessly, but will roll over, hum, punch and kick. These movements do not mean that your child is not sleeping well.
If you want to know how your child's sleep quality is, parents can refer to the following three criteria, if they can meet all of them, it means that the child's sleep quality is okay:
1.Able to fall asleep in 30 minutes;
2.Even if you wake up in the middle of the night, you can fall asleep again within 10 minutes;
3.Wake up no more than 1 time per night for more than 5 minutes;
3.In addition to the duration and quality of sleep during the day, parents can also observe whether their child is in good spirits the next dayIf your child has difficulty concentrating or being irritable, it means that your child may not have slept well last night.
All in all, parents don't have to worry too much about whether their children go to bed early or late at night, as long as their children's daily sleep can ensure sufficient frequency and quality, they do not have to worry about their children's health problems.