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Why sleep experts and consultants are needed – Tatiana Butskaya
Pediatrician and popular medical blogger Tatyana Butskaya told the healthy-food-near-me.com readers what kind of newfangled specialists they are.
Sleep consultants have recently appeared on the Russian market of services, so some parents still mistrust this specialist, considering the new product to be just a successful marketing, while others are happy to use their services and can boast of the results.
As a Fetal Advocate and pediatrician, I am positive about the emergence of baby sleep counselors as well as breastfeeding counselors. Let’s be honest, sleep and breastfeeding are two areas where most moms have a lot of at least questions, if not problems.
Why do you need a baby sleep consultant if you have a pediatrician?
Yes, with questions about sleep, you can contact a doctor: a pediatrician or a pediatric neurologist. But sleep problems are often not medical at all, but behavioral and psychological. Violation of bedding rituals, the mother’s attempt to comply with a daily routine that is not suitable for the child, her emotional state, fatigue, anxiety and ideas about how the baby should sleep are just some of the common causes of problems with children’s sleep. Sleep counselors are often trained in psychology. Therefore, such a specialist can comprehensively approach the solution of the problem, in a number of situations switching from the child to the mother. Perhaps, turning to a sleep counselor, mom is just looking for support, wants to make sure that everything is doing right. Perhaps this is an emotionally burned out mom. And then the sleep consultant is another specialist from whom you can find support and solutions. After all, not everyone turns to psychologists.
Are sleep counselors doctors?
Such a specialist may or may not have a medical degree. And this is not so important, because as such, the treatment of a child is not included in the tasks of a specialist. It is important to understand that the focus of a sleep counselor is not the child separately, but the whole family with its habits, rhythm and mode of life. The problem is considered comprehensively.
How can a sleep consultant help if there are well-known and universal recommendations? The fact is that real experts use an exclusively individual approach. They do not give universal recommendations, but consider all the features of a particular family, mother and child. The main task of a sleep counselor is to help improve the child’s sleep and lifestyle in a way that suits each particular family.
How can a sleep expert help?
– Resolve behavioral sleep disorders;
– to establish a child’s sleep from the moment of newborn to school age;
– regulate sleep in a family with several children, including the sleep of twins;
– to establish a daily routine suitable for the child;
– to solve the problem of long and painful laying;
– move the child to his bed and go to separate sleep;
– to establish a night sleep without frequent waking up;
– to minimize night feedings;
– to establish a daytime sleep;
– teach the child to fall asleep on their own.