3-year-old grandson didn't wake up after nap, doctor's words broke grandma's heart, many parents are still making mistakes

The Chinese attach great importance to napping, and believe that it is a good habit that is beneficial to physical and mental health. Some parents even believe that ''children who take a nap are smarter. ''There is nothing wrong with this, but many parents overemphasize and exaggerate the role of naps, which is counterproductive.

Huahua's grandma is like this. In order to keep my three-year-old grandson from starving and get adequate nutrition. After the grandson ate several biscuits, he forced to stuff the child with lunch. After the meal, regardless of Huahua's resistance, grandma reprimanded her grandson, who was playing with cars, and drove him to bed, forcing him to take a nap and rest without giving the child any time to breathe.

However, tragedy just happened. After the three-year-old grandson lay down for a nap, he never woke up again. After finishing the housework, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. Grandma discovered that her grandson, who usually only took an hour's nap, hadn't woken up yet. After finding something wrong, send the child to the hospital immediately. Next, the doctor's words broke my grandma's heart: due to eating too much, the trachea was blocked, which caused suffocation.

Taking a nap is something that many parents will let their children do, hoping that their children can get enough sleep to benefit their growth and development. However, everything must pay attention to methods and follow objective laws. Many parents are still making mistakes when it comes to ''taking a nap'' due to lack of knowledge.

So, what should parents pay attention to when it comes to taking a nap?

First of all, don't eat while playing.

In order to coax their children to eat, many parents often use some games to feed their children. If you make the child happy, you may be willing to eat two more bites of rice.

However, playing while eating is a bad habit. Generally speaking, after a person eats, a large amount of blood will flow into the stomach to help the gastrointestinal peristalsis, but if eating while playing, the body will divert part of the blood to other organs, thereby reducing the blood in the stomach and causing indigestion in children.

If you fall asleep immediately without digestion, the child's stomach is still very small and fragile, and its bearing capacity is limited. It is easy for food to flow back, causing suffocation. In the long term, it is easy to cause stomach diseases, and in the short term, it will cause insomnia due to stomach distension.

Secondly, you should exercise properly after meals before taking a nap.

30 minutes after the child has finished eating, parents can take the child for a walk or play some simple games with the child. Remember not to do strenuous exercise, nor to exercise immediately after eating. Proper exercise is conducive to the digestion of food, and it will not cause fat accumulation caused by children lying down after eating, causing obesity and other health problems.

Again, the nap time should not be too long.

The purpose of the nap is to let the children get enough rest and meet the consumption of the afternoon with a better mental outlook. However, studies have shown that taking too long a nap not only fails to restore people's spirits, but the more sleepy they become, the weaker they become.

It will affect the normal work and rest time at night. Parents should understand that taking too long a nap will affect the normal work and rest time at night. A child who is overly excited at night will stay up all night. Reversing day and night violates the objective law of "sunrise and sunset, sunset and rest", which is harmful to children's development.

Children over the age of 3 are the same as adults, and about 30 minutes of sleep is enough. It can not only make the baby more energetic, but also improve the child's brain development.

Finally, create a good sleeping environment for your child.

Naps are mostly light sleep, and babies are very sensitive to everything around them in most cases. Noisy environments are not conducive to children falling asleep and affecting sleep quality. At the same time, pay attention to the temperature of the sleeping environment. In summer, don't blow fans and empty talk on the children, it will make them catch a cold. Don't wrap your child in too thick a quilt in winter. The baby's body is very fragile, and an overly tight quilt will oppress the child's heart and cause his breathing to be difficult.

Although the benefits of naps are self-evident, not all babies need naps every day. Parents should pay attention to their children's mental state and do not force them to take a nap. If the child is not sleepy, forcing them to fall asleep will only increase their psychological burden, and may even make the child resistant to sleeping.

Every child is an individual, not a robot on an assembly line. Therefore, some babies sleep more, and some babies sleep less. Don't use a unified measuring stick to measure your own children. Only the healthy growth of your baby is the most important thing!