![]() ![]() Children who slept less had 11.5 times higher risk of being unprotected by the vaccines. The American Medical Association has discovered that the effectiveness of vaccines is reduced in a sleep deprived baby. Sleep deprived kids require much more time to recover. If the body is missing out sleep, these proteins decrease in number and allow kids to be more prone to diseases.įew studies have found that reported bouts of illness declined with longer nightly sleep.Īnother thing is that sleep deprivation is also responsible for recovery time during sickness. Our immune system releases disease-fighting proteins during sleep. No medication can help us without having a proper amount of sleep. We all know that the first step to fight any disease is sleep. Italian researchers who observed children with deficient levels of growth hormone have found that they sleep less deeply than average children do. ![]() If the child is not able to sleep well, then the production of growth hormone becomes limited and the growth will be delayed. The brain releases a growth hormone – somatotrophin into the bloodstream during the deep sleep. Children are growing a little every day and they do so while they are asleep. Sleep is the most vital element required for proper growth. If you know that infants spend around 50 % of their sleep in REM sleep, you will understand the risks that they can experience when it comes to memory. Lack of sleep blocks this function and impacts memory, especially immediate memory. The brain performs this function during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which happens while kids dream. The brain collects and stores the memories created during the day in a long-term cache so they could be organized and retrieved later. Lack of sleep also disturbs the brain’s ability to consolidate memories and makes learning really difficult. Salome Kurth has proven that connections between the right and left sides of the brain increased by 20% over a single night’s sleep in a group of children between 2 to 5 years old. Continuous observation of those children showed that they continued lagging behind even by age 7. Millennium cohort study which evaluated 11 000 children found that kids with irregular bedtimes from birth to age 3 had problems with skills related to maths, reading, and spatial awareness. Ī study done while observing 2 to 3 months old infants has presented that the more irregular schedules the child had, the lower the rates of learning were. Many studies have proven that babies with shorter and poor quality of night sleep had lower cognitive scores. They show better language skills, are more creative, and have a greater attention span, allowing them to digest the new knowledge more easily. Children getting enough uninterrupted sleep tend to be better and faster learners. In other words, sleep is the main ingredient when it comes to smartness. Kids who do their job well – get a great reward by building strong brain architecture, and those who don’t – lose the abilities to develop skills required later in life. Sleep is one of the most important baby’s jobs during the first years of life. Sleep is the primary nutrition for the child’s brain which is responsible for his cognitive growth and development. Yes, the bigger the sleep debt a child has, the more problems he will experience. They will not feel well because of accumulated and constantly increasing sleep loans which must be returned urgently in order not to harm these children. The same thing happens to the children having sleep debts. ![]() You will not feel relieved unless it’s all gone… The bigger the loan is, the longer you will need to pay it back. Having a sleep debt is the same as taking the loan from the bank. That sleep is lost and the child accumulates a sleep debt – missed hours of sleep. If the baby did not feed well, parents continue offering it again and again, but what happens if that baby did not have enough sleep?! ![]() Food is a nourishment to the body and sleep is a nourishment to the brain. Both of them function as a biological need. Majority of parents tend to worry about their child’s food and forget to ask themselves one question: what happens if my child doesn’t get enough sleep?įood and sleep are similar in a way. I have come across many strong moms who even have that energy to wake up ten or more times at night, so they could breastfeed or bottle feed their little ones believing that they are always hungry. I am certain that every single parent would do anything in order to have a happy and healthy child. ![]()
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