When adults fall asleep, we experience a cycle called light sleep and deep sleep. In light sleep, our brain and body adjusts from being awake to being asleep. This is the stage that dreams often occur. On the other hand, deep sleep is when our body and brain is fully at rest. The transition from light sleep to deep sleep happens on the first hour of sleep. However, for babies, the transitions happen in a shorter span of time occurs multiple times during sleep. This explains that yes, babies do have dreams and they dream more than the adults do. About 70% of their sleeping time, they experience dreaming.
When Do Babies Start to Have Dreams?
Studies shows that as early as 30 weeks gestation, a baby inside his mother’s womb could already experience REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep. REM is when one’s eyeballs keep moving behind the eyelids. This is also the phase of sleep that dreams occur. So even from inside his mommy’s tummy, few weeks before he is born, a child can already experience dreaming.
What Do Babies Dream About?
Babies can already smell, hear and feel from the time he’s still in the womb. A Pediatric Expert says that a baby inside the womb might have dreams about his amniotic world and his everyday experiences inside his mother. From newborn stage and infancy, every changes he could encounter and development he had may improve his dreaming as well. From the clearer vision of his room, to the soothing feeling he had when sucking his pacifier. All his dreams would vary from his day to day life experiences.
Do Babies Have Nightmares Too?
Worry not mommy, it is said that an infant still don’t register his fears to include it in his dreams. Your baby could have cried during sleep, and there might be some reason for that, but babies don’t usually experience nightmares until he reaches the age of 3-5 years old.
Can dreams affect baby’s moods?
No, babies might not even be able to remember what he dreamed about during sleep. Most likely, by the time a baby wakes up, he will already put behind what he had dreamed about. And also, since they have multiple dreams during sleep, it’s no longer possible to remember and get affect by it.
Dreaming plays a big role in an adult’s world. That is the reason why parents are often wondering too if their babies could dream. Even though babies could dream, their dreams does not affect them same as how it does to adults. Their dreams are just happy fragments of their everyday experiences.
As a mother, it is always our joy to see our kids growing healthy. It is always on our goal to let our kids try different foods that contains the right nutritions they are expected to get everyday. But how could you achieve that if your child is a picky eater? How can you encourage him to change his eating habits so that each meal time will no longer be a horror for both mommy and her kid? In this article, lets find out how we can handle a child who is a picky eater.
The world has always been warned that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health. It is the cause of life-risky diseases such as lung and esophageal cancers, heart disease, stroke, aneurysm and a lot more. If smoking has been dangerous to adults who are smomers, how much more and what could have been its effect to the second hand smokers especially the babies? Is it as life-threatening to children as it is to adults? Let’s find out.
Parents are left in wonder why little ones often throw a fuss and cry whenever they feel the urge to sleep. Well, not really all the time, but there are really times that before they fall asleep, they would cry. Up until this time, there is still no scientific reason why children tends to cry when they are sleepy, however, studies were able to identify certain factors that may have contributed to these behavior. In this artice, let me discuss further these factors and how they can make us understand what our baby wants or needs.
What gestures do we usually use to show love and affection to little ones? Hugging, kissing, verbal compliments, giggling and the likes. But, do you know that it is really not advisable to kiss a newborn’s or infant’s face, lips, not even hands. Frustrating, trully. Especially for Momma’s like me. Everytime my baby is sleeping right next to me, or when im cuddling with him and he stares back at me, or just simply when he makes a cutie face look, i surely want to dive and shower him with kisses. How I’d giggle and want to kiss those cheeks soundly. But no, I’d rather not risk it. Why? Why should we be cautious with this thing? Read on to find out why.