Your first time as a baby
I am also the first time as a mother
I want my baby to fall asleep as soon as possible, either for the baby to sleep more, or for the baby to do his own thing. I understand that caregivers have such needs, but it is difficult to do it in practice!
The time to fall asleep at night is closely related to the frequency of naps during the day, the length of the nap, and the interval between sleeps.
Babies of different ages have different nap frequency, different nap duration, and sleep interval between two sleeps. The time for a baby to fall asleep at night for 3 sleeps, 2 sleeps, and 1 sleep is different. However, the premise that the time to fall asleep is different is that the length of sleep is sufficient and the frequency of naps is reasonable.
For example, a 5-month-old baby takes 3 naps during the day, the total nap duration is 3-3.5 hours, and the nap interval is about 2 hours. If you wake up at 7 in the morning, you will fall asleep at around 7:45 at night.
Babies of 8 months old take 2 naps during the day, the total nap duration is about 3 hours, and the nap interval is about 3 hours and 15 minutes. If you wake up at 7 in the morning, you will fall asleep at around 8:30 at night.
16-month-old babies have one nap during the day, the total nap duration is 2-2.5, and the nap interval is 5 hours. If you go to bed at 7 o'clock in the morning, you will fall asleep at about 8:00 at night.
When do you need to adjust the time to fall asleep at night?
The baby's sleep time at night is too late and needs to be adjusted manually.
No matter whether the baby sleeps 3, 2 or 1 sleeps during the day. The latest average night time is about 9 o'clock at night.
If the baby is always used to falling asleep after 9 o’clock in the evening, and getting up late in the morning, the rest of the day is basically irregular;
if the baby is always used to falling asleep after 9 o’clock in the evening and getting up early in the morning, The baby is sleep deprived again and lacks enough sleep time. Any of the above situations of
remind us that we need to adjust the baby's work and rest artificially to avoid falling asleep too late at night.
As the months grow older, will the child sleep later?
is not exactly like this . The time to fall asleep fluctuates within a time frame at least before the baby is one and a half years old.
As the months grow older, the baby's sleep time will become shorter and shorter. During this process, the child's wakefulness interval increases, the frequency of naps required decreases, and the total sleep duration is correspondingly shorter. With the combination of many factors and ensuring a regular schedule, the time to fall asleep at night is basically stable at 8:30-9:00 until school age.
In the special stage of simultaneous sleep (at the beginning of simultaneous sleep), the baby will go to bed earlier than before.
For example, the 3 sleeps before the 2 sleeps is: the sleep interval is 2 hours and 30 minutes. Get up at 7:00 in the morning, and the time to fall asleep at night is about 20:30;
just starts and sleeps 2 hours, sleep interval is 3 hours, wake up at 7:00 in the morning, the time to fall asleep at night is about 20:00.
When the child reaches 19:30 Sleepy, what to do?
Those children with strong biological clocks will not be sleepy at a certain point, even if the sleep interval is not so long, they will fall asleep smoothly. What to do in this situation? The
circadian clock is one of the factors that promote sleep. When the role of the circadian clock is greater than that of sleep stress, you need to do a few basic investigations: Does
work and rest regularly and meet the needs of months?
Is the length of sleep sufficient? How is
sleep continuity at night? Does
wake up early?
If none of these conditions are present, there is no problem in arranging to fall asleep at 19:30. It is understandable that
wants to arrange the child to fall asleep as soon as possible, but no matter from the perspective of taking care of the baby’s sleep, or the point of view of the convenience of taking care of people, it is not recommended to "arrange to sleep in advance in order to sleep in advance". Forcibly sleeping may not fall asleep ( The process of hard coaxing is exhausting), sleep breaks or awakening early, even more collapse!
