Maternal and child health: Lack of sleep in newborns, can home remedies be effective in such cases?

 

"I was breastfeeding my baby when someone said that if you chore it and drink it with warm water, the baby will twitch sleeping, but by doing so, I will start dwindling asleep."

 

According to medical specialists, infants typically sleep for about 18 hours a day, but if the baby's sleep is troubled or reduced, it not only disturbs his health, but also doubts the parents and particularly the mother can cause fatigue and nervousness.

 

Something like occurred to Karachi couple Zohaib Siddiqui and his wife Nimrah when they became parents for the first time. Nimrah says, "My mother's friend told me to kneading her and try to shawl her in a muslin cloth." Someone else said that if you take mustard oil and massage the baby with it, it will sleep, but he did not sleep with it either.

Alike advice was given to Dr. Sana, a couple living in Islamabad, and her husband, Habib-ur-Rehman, when they gave birth to their first child. "We were told to massage it, alter its milk, drink the liqueur, drink the grapefruit water, drink the mint coffee," said Dr Sana. Even the baby does not sleep, look at him. We did it all and it made a slight change in time but still the problem is not resolved.

"Some people said that he was not breastfeeding, so he could not sleep well. We delayed until maybe when he was six months old and ongoing taking other foods besides milk, his stomach would be full and he would fall asleep.

"When he wasn't asleep, my anger and nervousness increased." Nimrah and Zohaib's son is now six months old, but rendering to them, from birth to about three months old, their baby hardly slept three to four hours in 24 hours.

 

"When my baby was born, many people who came to see it said it was born in the morning, so it would sleep all night and break up all day, but it would only last 3 to 4 hours in 24 hours," says Nimrah. I was just sleeping. ‘This not only pretentious Nimrah's sleep but also made her short-tempered.

 

"The joy of having a baby went to the side," she says. "When he wasn't asleep, I would get very annoyed and fidgety, and I would vent all my annoyance on my husband." She would call her mom and call that she was not sleeping. I had a C-section, so it was problematic for me to get up and sit down.

 

"I couldn't sleep all night and my baby couldn't sleep at that time since I have to look after other things in the house. Occasionally I would get uninterested and leave everything and just start crying. ' But the baby's absence of sleep not only exaggerated Nimrah's life, but also her husband's daily dull.

 

"If I had to go to the office, I wouldn't get adequate sleep. If I awakened up at three or four o'clock at night, I would stay asleep in the office. There was no time for the baby to sleep and wake up," he says.

 

Dr. Sana and her husband Habib-ur-Rehman said us that their son did not sleep for more than three to four hours directly after birth.

 

"The heads of our house used to tell us that infants sleep a lot, but our baby only slumbered from three o'clock at night to six o'clock in the morning and did not sleep the respite of the day and requested for milk again and again."

 

But dissimilar Nimrah and Zohaib's child, the couple's child did not resolve the problem over time and sustained to go to school.

"Even after six months, his sleep has not better. At the age of one, he ongoing playing and walking, but he still couldn't sleep. Until he was four, he slept only three hours a night. And then at the age of about four and a half, Dr. Sana and Habib-ur-Rehman's son were identified with autism.

What advice did the doctors give to these couples in this situation?

Habib-ur-Rehman told us that he communicated many doctors abroad besides Pakistan but could not find a appropriate solution to this problem.

 

"The doctor told us to sign that something was going wrong with his tedious. The psychologist said that you should keep it as busy as possible during the day.

 

Dr. Sana says, "We would also take her to the green for two or three hours a day. The doctor said to give her a small quantity of cough syrup." I was not in errand of it, but when there was a problem, I used cough syrup once or twice, but it was of no use.

 

Nimrah said that someone told her that the child may have gastric difficulties so show him to the doctor. "The doctor told us not to put him to sleep from 7 pm to midnight, and then he would stay asleep for the rest of the night. The doctor also said to blacken the room, decrease the light, put draperies in front of the windows.

 

"Some children are so active that if they sleep for 15 minutes, they can break awake for several hours, and that's what occurred to our baby," the doctor said.