A baby right from his birth till one and a half month tries to get acquainted with the new world and its way of living. As a reason of this most of the infants have a disturbed sleeping pattern in the first 1 month. At the end of 2- 3 months he gets acclimatized and start sleeping a little peacefully.
The difficulty in sleeping is associated with night wakings, which occur due to a learned pattern requiring parent’s intervention to fall asleep. Most of the infants are restless during the night because they suffer from colic, an allergy, ear infection or any sort of viral.
Although for the babies it is nothing to do with insomnia as it is a part of growing up.
Night wakings or sleep arousals occur in all age groups of children, right from infants to adolescents; the point to be noted is, whether a child can signal to his parents that he requires their assistance to sleep. If a toddler cannot or is unable to communicate to his or her parent and cannot be pacified then it is matter of concern requiring medical aid.
Since children of this age do not perceive these night wakings as a problem sleep difficulty in children does not meet the definition of insomnia.
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