Baby Light Sleeper Naps

The idea behind wake to sleep is that you re supporting your child through the transition from one sleep cycle to the next.

Baby light sleeper naps.

I was even considering ear plugs. His naps last anything between 5 60mins. In this time your baby s sleep patterns will change dramatically. Toddlers need less sleep than infants at night.

Although your toddler s daytime sleep will steadily lessen as he gives up his 2 naps a day many toddlers still need 11 to 12 hours of nighttime sleep until they reach 5 years. Even moving marietta to the nursery didn t help. I guess it s mostly naps. In fact 3 6 months is the trickiest period of baby sleep.

After that baby transitions into deeper or non rem sleep. We co sleep and my every move can wake him. My baby is having a hard time with naps because the slightest noise a car even passing by wakes her up. The 2 3 4 nap schedule that will get your baby to sleep marietta now four stayed in her parents room until she was four months old by which point her problems with noise and light and her tendency to wake whenever rezza or her husband moved had become a major issue.

Slight to slightest sounds like my anklets or sneeze or even door bell can wake him up. Though her room was. And as if that isn t hard enough he s also a very really ridiculously light sleeper and has always been. I am an extremely light sleeper myself but she is super cranky because she is not getting enough sleep.

Just like adults babies and toddlers have individual sleep styles. My ds 6months old wakes up to the slightest pin drop. And between 6 and 12 years of age kids sleep requirements will drop to 9 to 12 hours a day total. Mathilda my oldest was always a light sleeper while her brother a j could nap in a construction zone.

During these few months your baby s sleep will become a lot more like ours as adults with more distinct periods of light and deep sleep and more neurologically differentiated sleep cycles. It s not loud where we live at all. I posted a few times before about my son who doesn t like sleep very much wakes up often at night puts up a fight for day naps etc. The first 20 or so minutes of a nap are light sleep or rem sleep.