The reference value of the best sleep duration for children, different ages and different durations, sleep enough to be smarter

Mozai's mother is raising children

2024-06-12 11:58Posted in Shaanxi Parenting Creators

There is an old saying that "babies should sleep more and sleep with their brains".

This sentence does make sense, only enough sleep can ensure the growth and development of the baby, and provide sufficient energy and motivation for the baby's brain development.

The longer the baby sleeps, the better

Since we sleep with our brains, should we let our babies sleep more and sleep as long as possible?

Actually, it's not right to think that way.

First of all, the total sleep duration of each baby in a day is fixed, and it is reasonably distributed in day and night, which is in line with his own growth and development needs.

When the baby sleeps enough, he will naturally wake up, and he will not wake up like us adults and continue to stare for a while, which is not considered effective sleep.

In the case that the total sleep duration of the baby is sufficient, some operations to let the baby sleep for a while are just to extend the length of a certain sleep, and are unlikely to increase the total sleep duration, such as:

◆ When sleeping during the day, the curtains in the room are drawn very tightly, and the light is set very dark, so that the baby has an illusion and sleeps longer.

◆ The baby who sleeps is overfed, and the baby wants to sleep when he is fed, so he eats and sleeps.

◆ Adults over-coax to sleep, if adults always want the baby to sleep more, sleep longer, may frequently fall asleep, holding and shaking, causing the baby to sleep too much.

If you sleep more this night, you will sleep less the next night, sleep too much during the day, sleep less at night, and your sleep routine will be disrupted.

If you sleep too long, it will take away your baby's activity time, and your baby may not have enough or low quality of activities, which in turn will affect sleep.

Sleep, exercise, and diet form a cycle that influences each other.

Sleep is important, but not as long as you sleep, every baby has a total amount of sleep that is appropriate for their age.

How long should your baby sleep

How long and how long your baby sleeps is determined by your baby's sleep needs, and your baby's sleep needs are different at different ages.

The International Total Sleep and Sleep Standards for Infants and Young Children give us a rough range of data:

Babies from 0 to 6 weeks: The total sleep duration is 15-18 hours

Babies from 6 weeks to 8 months: The total sleep duration is 14-15 hours

9-12 months old baby: The total sleep duration is 14 hours

13-24 months of age: 13-14 hours of sleep

24-36 months old: The total sleep duration is 12-14 hours

This is a reference value range, in real life, there are some babies whose total sleep duration is less than the minimum value, or higher than the maximum value, is that unreasonable?

Of course not, some babies are born with little sleep and full of energy.

My son doesn't take a nap after he is 3 years old, he goes to sleep at 8 o'clock in the evening and wakes up at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the total sleep duration is 11 hours, which is lower than the above standard, but the trend of height and weight growth curve is normal.

So 11 hours is not a problem.

To judge whether the baby has slept enough, sleep well, it is necessary to judge by combining various indicators.

How to tell if your baby is sleeping well

Whether the baby has slept well and slept enough, you can not only look at the total sleep time, but also judge by combining the following indicators:

1. Developmental indicators such as height, weight, and head circumference

When the baby sleeps well, he has the energy to play well, exercise well, and produce consumption, so as to eat well and form a virtuous growth cycle.

On the contrary, babies who always do not sleep well, have a bad emotional state, fall asleep after feeding, and wake up hungry before they have slept enough. In the end, it falls into a chaotic state of not eating well, sleeping well, and playing badly, and the three developmental indicators of height, weight, and head circumference are likely to have problems.

2. Judge by your baby's emotional state

The emotional state of the baby when he falls asleep can most intuitively reflect whether the baby has slept well and slept enough:

◆ If the baby wakes up crying, depressed, irritable, or listless, then it is possible that the baby's sleep quality is not good.

◆ If the baby sleeps happily, steadily, in a very good mood, full of energy, concentration, and can actively interact with adults, it means that the baby has slept well.

3. Whether to form a regular work and rest habit

When the baby's eating, playing and sleeping cycle can run benignly, it will form a very regular work and rest habits, when to eat, when to sleep is almost stuck in the point of precise advancement.

Babies with regular schedules and rests basically sleep well and sufficiently, and it will be very easy to take care of them.

All in all, whether the baby sleeps well or not is not the subjective judgment of our adults, but the result of looking at the data and objective observation.

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