From what age should babies sleep separately?

After birth, the baby sleeps with its parents. Their sleep time and pattern changes with time. Then there is the need to change the sleeping environment. As the habit of sleeping in a separate bed after the child grows up increases his self-reliance and self-confidence, it is also necessary for the rest and sleep of the parents.

In our country, children sleep with their parents until they grow up. Abroad, however, the opposite picture is seen.

Which one is actually better?

Parents think that children will not be afraid if they sleep with their parents at night, they will sleep well. And they can keep an eye on whether he is sleeping properly at night or not.

But that's not right, researchers have said to make the child sleep in a separate bed after 18 months. Various studies have shown that staying in one bed for long periods of time disrupts children's independent sleep habits, preventing children from moving freely during sleep, which are very important for the normal physiological processes of falling asleep and waking up as children grow. In some cases, sleeping in the same bed with adults also increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome or sudden death in sleep in children.

Before the age of two years, the child should sleep separately from the parents. Sometimes parents have to be very quick to develop this habit.

For this step by step separate sleeping habit can be made. Instead of sleeping in a separate room, he should be given a separate bed in his parents' room. After three-four years of age separate rooms can be arranged.

Care should be taken that the room should be decorated with the furniture of the child's choice, he will feel comfortable while staying here. His favorite pictures can be placed on the wall, his favorite toys can be arranged. The height of the bed should be within reach of children. The reading space should be comfortable and open. Dimlights can be arranged so that the child does not get scared at night.

It is better to arrange for the child to stay in the room close to the parents so that they can call easily if needed. Make it easy to move between the two rooms. Then the parents can easily keep an eye on the child, and the child can come to them quickly if necessary. Care should be taken that there is nothing on the way from the child's room to the parent's house, so that the child may get hurt carelessly.