Is my baby sleeping well? - Dr. Jyothi Raghuram

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Channel: Doctors' Circle World's Largest Health Platform · 2015 · People & Blogs

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It is OK for a newborn to sleep anywhere between sixteen to twenty hours in a day and the sleeping time gradually decreases as the babies grow up. At three months, a baby is sleeping for about fourteen to fifteen hours and this comes to about ten hours by the time the baby is six months old and eight to nine house by eighteen months.. nnAs babies grow, they are more curios, they are developing fast and want to explore more and they are awake in the day time. A mother may feel that they are spending about an hour to put the baby to sleep and then the baby is up in hardly fifteen minutes.
Babies do take short naps and they tend to be active during the day and spend about four to five hours sleeping..  nnA baby may also wake up frequently at night asking for feeds and this is just separation anxiety.. nnSome babies have sleep disorder where it is very difficult to put the baby to sleep. It may be due to hunger or it may be due to colic that the baby is unable to sleep..

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