Tuesday, March 11, 2008

How much sleep does your child need?

I got this from Baby Center weekly updates, Your Baby This Week.


....Age......... Nighttime Sleep....... Daytime Sleep...... * Total Sleep
1 month............. 8 1/2........................ 7 (3)...................... 15 1/2
3 months............. 10........................... 5 (3)......................... 15
6 months............. 11......................... 3 1/4 (2)................. 14 1/4
9 months............. 11........................... 3 (2)......................... 14
12 months........... 11 1/4.................. 2 1/2 (2)................ 13 3/4
18 months.......... 11 1/4................... 2 1/4 (1)................ 13 1/2
2 years................. 11.......................... 2 (1)......................... 13
3 years............... 10 1/2 ..................1 1/2 (1).................... 12
* number of naps in parentheses


On average, Elil gets about 10-11 hours of sleep at night. And around 2-3 hours during the day. So this adds up to 12-14 hours. I think she should be getting more sleep. Her afternoon naps vary from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours. I think we need to get her more tired and sleepy before attempting to put her to bed. Then she will have longer and deeper naps. Poor thing, she has the biggest baby eye bags under her eyes. But I doubt this is due to lack of sleep because they are apparent even when she's had enough snooze time. It may be genetic. Daddy and Grandma both have sunken eye bags. Haha.

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