Consultants for children's sleep relatively recentlyappeared on the Russian market of services, so some parents still distrust this specialist, considering the novelty as simply a successful marketing, while others enjoy using their services and can boast of results. Tatyana Butskaya:
As the "Fruit Advocate" and the pediatrician, I am positiveI am referring to the appearance of consultants for a child's sleep, as well as to consultants on breastfeeding. Let's be frank, sleep and breastfeeding are two areas where most mothers have a lot of at least questions, and even problems.
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Why do you need a consultant for a child's sleep, if there is a pediatrician?
Yes, with questions on a dream it is possible to address to doctors: pediatrician or pediatric neurologist. But sleep problems are often not medical, but behavioral and psychological. Violation of the laying rituals, mom's attempt to observe the regime of the day that does not suit the child, her emotional state, fatigue, anxiety and ideas about how to sleep a baby are just some of the common causes of problems with childhood sleep. Sleep advisors often have a psychological education. Therefore, such a specialist can approach the problem in a comprehensive way, in a number of situations, switching from a child to a mother. Perhaps, referring to a sleep consultant, my mother just looks for support, wants to make sure that everything is doing right. Perhaps it's an emotionally burnt mom. And then the sleep consultant is another specialist who can find support and a solution. After all, not everyone turns to psychologists.
Are the sleep consultants doctors?
Such a specialist may have a medicaleducation, and may not have. And this is not so important, because as such, the child's treatment is not a specialist task. It is important to understand that the focus of the sleep consultant is not a child alone, but the whole family with its habits, rhythm and mode of life. The problem is considered comprehensively. What will the sleep consultant help if there are all known and universal recommendations? The fact is that these experts apply an exclusively individual approach. They do not give universal recommendations, but consider all the features of a particular family, mother and child. The main task of the sleep consultant is to help to establish the child's sleep and the regime of life so that it fits each specific family.
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What will help the expert on sleeping?
- Allow behavioral sleep disorders; -to adjust the sleep of the child from the moment of newborn to the school age, - to adjust the sleep in the family with several children, including the sleep of the twins, - to adjust the regime of the day suitable for the child, - to solve the problem of long and painful stowage, - to move the child to his bed and go to Separate sleep - Set up a night's sleep without frequent wakes - Minimize night feeding - Set up a day's sleep - Teach your child to fall asleep by herself.
