Sleep in children: The stages from birth to adolescence
At birth
From the fetal period, the sleep of baby gets ready. Independent from that of the mother and it is manifested by periods of inactivity. At birth, a baby sleeps an average of 16 hours a day but the newborn is not at all aware of the day / night rhythm and sleeps in periods of 3 or 4 hours.
3 to 6 months
The day / night rhythm settles in the first 3 months. Then, thechild sleeps gradually longer, more deeply. While a newborn baby makes nights of 6 hours on average, a baby from 3 to 6 months can sleep up to 9 hours without interruption. But it is only around 6 months that the periodicity day / night is definitively assimilated by thechild..
6 months to 4 years
At this time, thechild sleeps less and less during the day. It goes from 4 naps around 6 months, 2 to 1 year, then to only 1 year and a half. Finally thechild sleeps globally less and less between 6 months and 4 years and it only needs 12 hours of sleep per day between 3 and 5 years old.
4 to 12 years
Throughout this age group, thechild Sleep more quickly in the evening because it is a time when it spends a lot more during the day. Gradually, he sleeps less than 12 hours per night to arrive at an average of 10 hours per night.
