How many hours of sleep does my baby need?

Waking during the night is natural. It is our sleep cycle at all, including toddlers. The normal rhythm of sleep consists of cycles of levels of sleep: drowsiness, light sleep, to dream (REM sleep) and sleep. And vice versa dreams in light sleep to drowsiness and so on. Each cycle lasts about 1:30, and adults and children achieve an average of 5 cycles of sleep per night.


We do not remember waking up because no one wakes up halfway. After that, we turn, we hold on our pillow and falls asleep. If you shoot sleeping, you can see these moments of awakening at regular intervals during the night. It really wakes up completely if you realize that something is wrong, as the smell of smoke, your baby coughs or if your pillow is dropped.

The sleep pattern of newborn

Babies need more sleep than adults. On average, infants less than 3 months sleep twice as much as their parents, but half of their sleep will be during the day.

Very young babies do not sleep long hours at a time because they need to wake up to eat regularly. Up to 3 months, babies have sleep-wake cycles throughout the day and longest night. The duration of these cycles varies greatly between each child, but on average, your child will sleep two hours straight the day, and 4 to 6 hours on the night.

The rate of infant sleep more than 3 months

Between 3 months and 1 year, your baby will sleep gradually less during the day and night.
At 3 months he sleeps twice during the day and night. At 6 months, most children sleep 12 hours at night, interspersed with a few revivals possible, and make two long naps during the day.

To 12 months, many little ones are still sleeping 12-14 hours a day, including a nap during the day. During the second year, the nap will decrease gradually to stop its 3, 4 years.

Manage your baby naps.

Proper management of your child naps may be the key to his sleeping habits. If your toddler is his nap later in the day, he may sleep well at night. Let him make his major naps in the early morning and afternoon. When he is older, keep the nap in the early afternoon, just after lunch, so that the awakening of the nap is not too close to