Why Do New Born's Not Sleep At Night | Neuroscience @Sidwarrier

0:00 a lot of moms ask this question why do babies not sleep at night what happens is gradually brains reset into a fixed [Music] C for parenting tips celebrity interviews recipes conversations with experts DIYs and lots more subscribe to kidstop press now we probably don't realize what an important role neuroscience and mental health play in

0:31 our daily lives and affect our productivity efficiency and overall well-being Dr Sid Warrior is a neurologist public speaker content creator author he's all about making Neuroscience easy to chat about smashing the stigma around mental health and getting folks talking about mindfulness learning and changing Behavior today we will be talking to Dr Sid about the effects of science mental health our eating habits and how humans behave behave and why we behave the way we

1:03 behave he's spoken a lot on Neuroscience but he will need to make it a child's play in today's episode because if he doesn't make it as simple as ABC then of course parents can't implement it welcome Dr s thank you for having me and also you know when we're talking initially about um you know night and the serotonin and then we're talking you've spoken a lot on the cardian Rhythm as well yeah do babies come with

1:29 a Guardian Rhythm because I'm sure not a lot of moms are going to agree because I know a lot of moms ask this question why do babies not sleep at night yeah like why do some mom say I have a I have a night bird and I my child sleeps through the night and my child just does not sleep at night like what what really happens there it is true that different children have different cardian rhythms yeah

1:58 right that is true there are some children who sleep in the day some children to sleep at night um what happens is gradually brains reset into a fixed CLE so the main hormone that we'll talk about is melatonin okay okay so melatonin is sort of the clock Setter in the brain because melatonin responds to light mhm so imagine again let's go back to the Jungle right before electricity

2:28 um sunrise Sunset as light comes up the light enters your eye it goes into the pineal gland melatonin comes out uh uh sorry melatonin goes down uh and your brain wakes up yeah at night when it's dark there is no light coming into your eye melatonin goes up and it activates the Sleep Network right that is the sardian Rhythm this has Downstream effects on the rest of the body so right every organ in your body has a clock that

3:00 responds to this Master Clock yeah right when a child is born um the mother's breast milk also has melatonin right so depending on the time at which the mother is feeding the baby the mother's melatonin goes into the baby and that helps set the baby's uh cardian Rhythm right and so breast milk at night has more melatonin than breast milk in the morning right so it is important

3:30 that this fact is important so say if you're expressing breast milk you have to also remember what time did you express it and try to give why is parenting so hard I get it but you as a mother you're just feeding on demand you're not thinking absolutely that so oh so you saying if I'm feeding in the night the Melatonin is any ways lower um no if you're feeding on demand I'm saying if you're not expressing say

3:57 if you're feeding on demand then your body is natur increasing melatonin in your breast milk and so the baby is getting melatonin and that sets that helps to set the baby's Rhythm it doesn't happen overnight but over a period of time the baby's brain becomes used to light and dark and and a large part of the babies today have formula fed so what happens there I I wouldn't I wouldn't Panic about it because eventually the baby's brain is

4:23 capable of resetting that's the thing because of neuroplasticity brains can adapt it's fine brains can adapt I'm waiting for you to have a baby you know I I no no I was just touched with I was very very lucky that I don't know what what it was I just say karma but both my kids slept through but I know parents who struggled and they've really got rakun because of the first two years that child just wouldn't sleep absolutely and I'm I

4:53 would never ever say that it's not a challenge right I wouldn't even say that knowing all this will now solve your problem yeah I don't think that is the purpose of Neuroscience yeah I think that the purpose of Neuroscience is to understand why something is happening and if we are lucky enough maybe there's a solution for it right but just knowing what is happening why is it happening and is this okay yeah or should I ask

5:22 for more help right I think Neuroscience can solve that much currently right so at no point would I pretend that oh if I a child it's going to be no no no I'm not saying that what I'm trying to say is that you know these are all checkboxes that you're feeling but I mean that baby is just come with his own mind and he refuses to k um you know refuses to tame down so I'm I'm just

5:44 trying to think like you know what are the check boxes that are missing that a parent is not filling in that they they still need to go through um that bit of the struggle um but it's very interesting that you that you know I mean every every day I just just keep learning so much about this like whether it's the gut microbiome which is formed with breast milk or now the Melatonin which is you know which is also being

6:07 fed through the yeah I would stress upon the importance of light though yeah for me that is the key that is the most natural way of regulating a cardian rhythm so just being aware not just for babies actually even for us just being aware of how much light we are exposed to at night uh goes a long way so anybody who's even an adult who struggling to sleep just understand that if you are in bright light right lots of

6:34 tube lights in the room and you just suddenly switch them all off you are not going to go to sleep because that's not how the Sun works there is a gradual dimming from light to dark and if you want to sleep better you should emulate that right so this is across all brains the baby's brain is not it's not an alien race it's still us so the baby's brain would react in a similar way as the child is growing up exposure to

7:00 light if you can control exposure to light properly exposing the child to bright sunlight in the morning and gradually dimming light at night over a period of time sardan rhythms should reset that is how the brain works how much time it takes individual yeah but this is the path so there was another interesting point about the teenage brain uh and I read this in a study that was published in 2013 or something which is our brain has different

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