Education Guide

This is another step in the child’s life, like all others, that no date has been scheduled to take place.

It is a further indication of the development process, which will give it the authority to act without adult supervision.

According to pediatrician Gustavo Moreira, of the Sleep Institute of UNIFESP, the child begins to demonstrate that it is able to leave the crib when he is walking well, safely, in general, about a year and a half or two.

However, in most families, it leaves the crib to make room for the little brother who is on his way. That is, the decision is much more a matter of reorganizing the house than biological. And there is no problem that is so, because this should not be a major concern for parents.

The sleep expert says the child can give a signal when it starts to jump out of the crib, which is usually high, and the best is pass it on to a lower bed, trying to avoid accidents. But, he said, it’s good that the bed has a guardrail, for children’s spatial memory is not developed for it to move sleeping without the risk of falling.

This is a capability that will be gained over time. The adult, while sleeping, has a spatial vision of what is happening. Even during deep sleep, memory that we have limited space we are in the bed and turned from one side to the other within that limit.

“A child takes to learn it. How long? In general, she will leave the grid when you’re up to doing things alone. When she took off her diaper when she is already big enough to stand alone and turn, is able to do many things without intervention (adult), “he said.

The way the child is opposite to the elderly, which, over time, will lose balance and memory. The pediatrician noted how common accidents in hospitals with patients who fall off the bed because they are very sick, with loss of balance, or the natural loss of this ability with age.

Fall out of bed should only be a concern from the three or four years old and if it happens frequently. Like the restless sleep, to indicate that the problem should be associated with some other signal.

The restless sleep snoring can be caused by a disease, sleep apnea, for example. In assessing the pediatrician, the child who falls in quite the bed, after a certain age, you should give other signs during the day that something may be wrong with it.

Gustavo Moreira said the transition from crib to bed with grid and then, without grid, follows the path of language development, of sphincter control, all that will give autonomy to the child. For him, the difference in the tranquility of this process can be expected in the family for the child. The parental concern should be to provide protection to prevent injury from a fall.

“If the child falls and wakes up crying, just take a bit of attention and to go back to sleep. Now, if the family makes a fuss, you want it more than she is, then the child may be impressed, “he said.

The expert does not see much risk of emotional damage caused by the shock fall. But remember that the way individuals respond to external stimuli it is intense and different capacity to deal with it.

Gustavo Moreira makes an analogy with the various attacks which are subjected to throughout their lives and how we learn to deal with these situations. Some people have a more pronounced, as the post-traumatic stress caused by a kidnapping. “It’s the same line. To a child, can be very hurt when she cries a lot, then it passed. And for another child, has another answer. There’s a rule “he said.

The pediatrician noted the importance of family behavior for each type of event is a desperate mother with the child crying and runs to the emergency room thinking that something serious happened, another conversation with the child, it expects to resume the quiet sleep, then back several times to make sure that the child is well.

“A look of concern for parents, attention to the bedroom to see if all is well, is different from a distressed look,” he said.