In addition, if your child drinks large amounts of milk or juice at night, her sleep may be disturbed for other reasons as well: for instance, if her diaper is soaked, the discomfort can certainly wake her. Furthermore, extra nutrients ingested at night will stimulate your child’s digestive system, which should ordinarily be relatively inactive during the night. The process of metabolizing those nutrients will alter patterns of functioning in other body systems; it will trigger or inhibit the release of many different hormones, and it will raise the body temperature, which is normally low at
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