Amount of sleep your child needs

[riab]

www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/sleep/sleepneeded/

So does your DS/DD get the 'right' amount of sleep?

DS (18 mo) gets anywhere from 9-11 hours at night and 11/2 hrs during the day. He never has more than 12 hrs unless he is ill or i'm very lukcy - but he shows none of the signs they list. He does have permenant bags under his eyes though (as do I)

Worryingly, my 16mo DS2 sleeps 15.5hours. 12 hours at night, 1 hour morning nap and 2.5 hours lunchtime nap. It is a bit annoying that he insists on keeping his morning nap as it restricts what I can achieve in a day. My nearly 4 year old sleeps 12.5 to 13 hours still which I am obviously grateful for.

wow aussiesim, I wish my DS had ever slept that much!

Don't knock it, if he sleeps that long at night and still keeps his daytime naps then relax and enjoy it while you can. What do you do to make sure he sleeps well?

children vary a lot though, don't they?

if they are sleeping as much as they want (not always being woken up), and not always ill or crotchety, it's probably fine.

I don't think these 'average baby' things are very helpful tbh - almost as worrying as the average development milestones...

Its the red rimmed baggy eyes that worry me! He just fights sleep some nights, its wierd. 5 nights out of 7 he sleeps either 7pm - 5.30am or 7pm - 3.30am, and 4am - 6.30am. Then one or two nights he is up all night for no reason, last night he woke at 11pm, finally dropped back off at 3.30am! then woke at 5.30am. (you can imagine how much sleep i got!)

how old is he?

oh, sorry, you already said

what are his sleeping arrangements? does he like the attention that comes with being awake?

is the lack of sleep linked to how much exercise he's had during the day, or what he's eaten?

He sleeps in his nursery in his cot (has done since 3 weeks old). If he wakes up I go in, check temperature etc, change nappy if its wet/full and give him a small drink of water. I do this in the dark with no talking, but a cuddle while he drinks. That takes about 15 minutes tops.

half the time he drops straight back to sleep - and i don't mind one wakeup call if he is thirsty as he still can't manage a beaker himself and certainly not half asleep in the dark.
If he is still awake and crying after 30 minutes I will give a half dose of calpol as we're in the midst of teething - a new one about every 14 days right now.

Then I try and settle ihm into his cot, say goodnight and sleepy time (this is what I do at bedtime) then leave the room.

maybe it's the teething that's keeping him awake riab?

I have to admit I haven't changed ds's nappy during the night since he was a few weeks old. it is huge by the morning, but it doesn't seem to bother ds.

He sleeps in our bed (he's 23mo) and if he's thirsty during the night I'll pass him a drink (in a sports-type bottle with a flip-up spout) and he'll sort it out himself and fall straight back to sleep.

I think he did the same when he was 18mo (hard to remember now ).

Sleep - hahaha. Whats that (laughs baby wriggler)

From the website she should have 14 1/4hrs. I recon she gets 10-11 hours.
Sleep baby sleep ...... please [begging emoticon]

it says a 3 month old should sleep 10 hours at night and 5 in the day. mine sleeps 11 hours at night but only 1 and a half during the day. saying this he is quite often overtired and even though i put him down for a nap he always wakes up after 30 mins. once he has had one nap he will not go to sleep at all. i will get him to sleep then after 5 mins he will wake himself upagain. to get him to have an hour in naps a day is very lucky for me.

what do you do to get baby to nap?

thats oen area i do have sorted out, he will have very long naps and i always have to wake DS at lunchtime. A 3 monh he was having 1 hr nap in the morning, 2 1/2 at lunchtime and 20-30 mins in the afternoon.

Hi Riab,

My DD gave up her afternoon nap about 3 months ago. She's just turned 3. She used to be put in her room with curtains drawn and a few toys to play with until she droped off.

Now she has quiet time in the afternoon - as my DH works shifts and stil needs his nap. For quiet time she's put in her room with our portable DVD player and a film of her choosing. If she wants Lilo and Stitch DH gets just over and hour to nap, if she wants Mary Poppins he gets just over 2 hours!

BTW have you tried Medised instead of Calpol. It has an antihistemine (sp) in it which helps your little one get to sleep, as well as helping with pains like teething and stuff for stuffy noses etc. If your DS can have it, give it a try all my friends swear by it - it really does help them sleep.

do you wake him after one and a half hours at lunchtime riab?

seems a bit short to me tbh, if he isn't waking up by himself.

Yes i wake him at lunchtime, It has always seemed that if I let him hve too much daytime sleep he wouldn't sleep at night. He went through a four week phase were if he slept past 2hrs he wouldn't be ready for bed at nighttime.
So at the moment he naps 12.15/12.30-1.45/2pm then bedtime at 6.30 asleep by 7pm.

To give an idea of the 7pm-7am sleeping:
Sunday: slept 6.45pm - 4am, drink of water and quick nappy change (soaking wet) back to sleep very easily, drifted off on bottle at 4.20am, woke again 6.15am
Monday: slept 7pm - 5.30am, gave drink but refused to go back to sleep so got up with him at 6am
Tuesday: slept 6.45 - 5.55am

wednesday: [last night] slept half asleep at 6.45pm then woke and wanted rest of bedtime milk at 7.05pm;
slept 7.15pm - 12.50am,
awake and screaming until 3.30am,
went in straght away at 12.50am, usual routine of dirnk fo water and nappy change, cuddle and he was quiet and nto thirsty so put him back in cot all sleepy,
1.30am - screams, left 5 mins, went in and reassured, patted and sat next to cot for 15 mins, left room when quiet at 1.50am
2.10am screams, refused drink, mounted to hysteria between 2.20 and 2.50am. me and DH with him, light on cuddles but hysterical screaming until he was hoarse.
3.30am gave a bottle of milk cos he was coughing and sore throatey by now, drank 8oz botle, got very sleepy but still whimpering,
3.45 light off, cuddle in his room and very gently put him down in cot and patted him until he drifted off
Finally alseep 4.10am

woek up 7.30am bright as a button and twice as happy!?!?!?!

this happens about once a week, its totally different form when he is teething, thne he is in pain, he pushes his face, tries to chew thigns etc, or when he has a cold he is all hot and bothered and sort of limp with the pain/ill feeling. This is hysteria out of nowhere.