Newborns should get 14—17 hours of sleep over a hour period, says the National Sleep Foundation. Some newborns may sleep up to 18—19 hours a day.
Newborns wake every couple of hours to eat. Breastfed babies feed often, about every 2—3 hours. Bottle-fed babies tend to feed less often, about every 3—4 hours.
Newborns who sleep for longer stretches should be awakened to feed. Wake your baby every 3—4 hours to eat until he or she shows good weight gain, which usually happens within the first couple of weeks. After that, it's OK to let your baby sleep for longer periods of time at night. The first months of a baby's life can be the hardest for parents, who might get up many times at night to tend to the baby. Each baby has a different sleep pattern. Some start to sleep "through the night" for 5—6 hours at a time by 2—3 months of age, but some don't.
During the first weeks of a baby's life, some parents choose to room-share. Room-sharing is when you place your baby's crib, portable crib, play yard, or bassinet in your own bedroom instead of in a separate nursery.
This keeps baby nearby and helps with feeding, comforting, and monitoring at night. While room-sharing is safe, putting your infant to sleep in bed with you is not. Bed-sharing increases the risk of SIDS sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths. Newborns follow their own schedule. But this can vary a lot. In most cases, your baby will wake up and be ready to eat at least every 3 hours. How often your baby will eat depends on what he or she is being fed and his or her age.
Make sure you talk with your healthcare provider to figure out if you need to wake your baby for feedings.
Watch for changes in your baby's sleep pattern. If your baby has been sleeping consistently, and suddenly is waking more often, there may be a problem. Or your baby may be going through a growth spurt and need to eat more often. Some sleep disturbances are simply due to changes in development or because of overstimulation.
When a newborn wakes up at the end of the sleep cycle, there is typically a quiet alert phase. This is a time when the baby is very still, but awake and taking in the environment. During the quiet alert time, babies may look or stare at objects, and respond to sounds and motion.
This phase usually progresses to the active alert phase. This is when the baby is attentive to sounds and sights, and moves actively. After the quiet alert phase is a crying phase. The baby's body moves erratically, and he or she may cry loudly. Babies can easily be overstimulated during the crying phase. Spend some time winding down and doing some calmer activities, like reading. Just as with adults, babies' and children's sleep patterns vary.
From birth, some babies need more or less sleep than others. The list below shows the average amount of sleep babies and children need during a hour period, including daytime naps. Most newborn babies are asleep more than they are awake. Their total daily sleep varies, but can be from 8 hours up to 16 or 18 hours. Babies will wake during the night because they need to be fed. Being too hot or too cold can also disturb their sleep.
As your baby grows, they'll need fewer night feeds and will be able to sleep for longer. Some babies will sleep for 8 hours or longer at night, but not all. By 4 months, they may be spending around twice as long sleeping at night as they do during the day. For babies aged 6 months to a year, night feeds may no longer be necessary and some babies will sleep for up to 12 hours at night. Teething discomfort or hunger may wake some babies during the night.
Most children aged 3 or 4 will need about 12 hours sleep, but this can range from 8 hours up to Some young children will still need a nap during the day. Newborn babies invariably wake up repeatedly in the night for the first few months, and disturbed nights can be very hard to cope with.
If you have a partner, ask them to help. If you're formula feeding, encourage your partner to share the feeds. If you're breastfeeding, ask your partner to take over the early morning changing and dressing so you can go back to sleep.
Once you're into a good breastfeeding routine, your partner could occasionally give a bottle of expressed breast milk during the night. If you're on your own, you could ask a friend or relative to stay for a few days so you can get some sleep. All babies change their sleep patterns. Just when you think you have it sorted and you've all had a good night's sleep, the next night you might be up every 2 hours.
Be prepared to change routines as your baby grows and enters different stages.
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