Ever wondered about your baby's dreams? We ask a pediatrics professor to tell us more about our little one's sleep habits.
Of course, there’s no way of asking them to keep a dream diary, but Professor Greene believes ‘dreams help babies make sense of their experiences’. As we know, your baby can hear and smell in the womb, and during the time spent dreaming in the womb, she was processing her amniotic world and trying to make sense of it. This processing carries on when your baby is born, as everything is new and overwhelming.
Dr Greene adds: ‘While our baby can’t tell you what she’s dreaming about, there are clues about the dreams she’s having. The big clue is how your baby behaves when she wakes up. If she’s happy and smiling, she’s probably had a good dream. If she’s fussy and crying, she might have been processing less happy experiences – maybe being hungry or when she didn’t like the way her Babygro felt.
‘Nightmares help children make sense of things they’re anxious about and one of the best things you can do is help your child to process them. Once they are old enough, get them to draw pictures of bad dreams and tell you what’s happening. Encourage them to find a positive at the end of the story.’.
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