What’s your baby’s sleep cycle like?
‘Sleeping well is a skill,’ says Lucy. ‘Learning to be a sound snoozer takes time, practice, a good sleep environment, and some dedicated help from parents.’ And there’s one fundamental skill your youngster has to master before he becomes a master of sleep: how to stitch his sleep cycles together.We go from drowsiness to light sleep, then into to deep sleep todeep sleep. And then it’s back the other way: from very deep sleep to deep sleep to light sleep.
If your tot is old enough to not need night feeds, but still wakes up lots, or if he never naps for longer than 40 minutes, then chances are, he hasn’t learnt this crucial skill yet. Understand how his sleep cycles work, and you can take some simple steps to help him master it. And once he can stitch together his sleep cycles, he’ll sleep well at night and nap happily during the day.Click through the gallery to discover your baby's sleep cycle...
By now he’s also producing the sleep hormone melatonin, another biological prompt that will help him fall asleep at night.’But your baby still has a relatively short sleep cycle – just 50 minutes long – and still spends a lot of time in REM sleep. ‘That means he’s still easily disturbed and may wake often,’ says Lucy.‘As your baby gets bigger, the amount of time he spends in REM sleep goes down and – at the same time – his sleep cycles start to get longer,’ says Lucy.
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