Want to know how much the child should sleep?

Many young parents are not unconcerned about how much a child should sleep. The quality and duration of a baby's sleep can be one of the criteria for assessing his overall condition. At the same time, you need to know how much the child should sleep in order to make the right regime of the day, since sleep strongly influences the growth and development of infants and children of both early and preschool age. Of course, every kid is different, but sticking to the average number of hours of sleep for a particular age still follows: it will benefit both the growing child and his parents. We will try to find out how much the child needs to sleep in each of the preschool age periods and how to organize a healthy baby's sleep correctly.

Newborn baby's dream

A healthy newborn baby sleeps almost constantly, waking up (and sometimes even a young mother has to wake up) just to enjoy breast milk. On average, it turns out that about 20 hours out of 24 such a baby falls on a dream during which it actively grows and recovers after a regular change in the "habitat". The duration and quality of sleep at this age depends strongly on the gestational age at which the child was born, then there were natural childbirth or planned / emergency surgery, the condition of the baby after birth.

Also at any age, sleep patterns will be affected by such characteristics as:

• State of health, mood and degree of excitation of the child;
• Presence or absence of a constant adequate day regimen;
• Observance of special rituals of retirement to sleep (quiet games before bed, quiet music, fairy tale therapy, singing a lullaby, etc.);
• Temperature and humidity in the bedroom;
• Quality of the child's bed, etc.

How many a child sleeps in 1-2 months

Usually, these children sleep about 18 hours a day with 3-4 periods of daytime sleep. Kids at this age are awakened several times a night in order to eat. Refreshed, as a rule, they immediately fall asleep.

Sleep the baby from 3 to 6 months

Such a child sleeps an average of 16 hours a day (part falls on 3 days sleep). Try to teach the baby from the first months of life to a proper healthy sleep without motion sickness, when the child gradually learns to fall asleep himself, without additional exposure from adults.

How much should a child sleep in 7 months

Children after six months usually sleep only two times in the afternoon, and the average daily need for sleep is 14-15 hours.

Sleep of a child from 8 months to a year

The sleep of such a child can not be less than 13-14 hours. The main part is, of course, a night sleep, which is closer to half-year can become continuous. Daytime sleep should be divided into two approximately equal periods.

Sleeping baby from 1 to 1.5 years old

One-year-olds sleep about 13 hours out of 24, night sleep is about 10 - 11 hours, and the rest of the time falls on two daytime sleep. Sometimes an overgrown active child is very difficult to put in the afternoon twice, tearing off the games and communicating with loved ones. Therefore, if more often your baby prefers one day's sleep, then revise the regime of the day: let him sleep once at the time you set, but this sleep will last for at least 2.5 hours.

How much should a child sleep in 2 years

By the age of two, all children sleep once a day for 2-3 hours, at night, on average, 10 hours. Such a sleep regime lasts up to 3 years.

A preschooler's and a younger schoolchild's dream

A child aged 3-7 years sleeps in the daytime about 2 hours, and at night it is enough for 9-10 hours.

A new-born first-grader should preferably rest for at least 1.5 hours during the day, so that the child's organism can more easily cope with the additional loads that have arisen. Older children no longer need to sleep during the day, but at the same time a night sleep should be at least 8-9 hours.