Sentences with phrase «shorter sleep stretches»

Studies show that young babies who typically have long stretches of awake time during the day (more than 3 consecutive hours) appear to have more disjointed sleep and shorter sleep stretches.

Shorter sleep stretches and being more easily woken could be another piece of the protection puzzle.

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At 6 or 7 months (when he started getting too big for the cradle) we tried him in the crib in his room for short stretches at a time until he started to sleep at least for most of the night.

Even though it seems like practicing EC (elimination communication) with a baby at night is a huge pain in the arse, I often feel like it's a matter of short term effort, long term benefit (ehm, longer stretches of sleep).

We're growing a unique individual who may need more sleep or less sleep, or may be an early bird or a night owl, or may naturally sleep in long stretches or may sleep in shorter spurts.

Even with the best schedules and babies that began sleeping in longer stretches, we slept in short intervals.

Narrator: Your newborn will spend a lot of time sleeping — 16 to 18 hours a day — in short stretches.

For a few months, most of your sleep will be in short stretches.

In short, the message is if you feed your baby this new kind of formula, it'll digest slowly enough that your baby will sleep for a longer period of time, which would presumably let the parents sleep for a longer uninterrupted stretch of time.

Researchers have found that breastfed babies generally sleep for shorter stretches and are a lot easier to wake from active sleep than non-breastfed babies (5,6).

Of course that won't all be at one time, but hopefully, you will get one stretch of four of five hours, and then shorter periods of two or three hours of sleep at a time.

And while she still ate quite often, her feedings grew somewhat shorter in length, giving me longer stretches of sleep.

In most instances, the fact that your newborn is learning to replace lots of short little catnaps with longer stretches of sleep — whether they happen to fall during the day or at night — bodes well for a more «civilized» sleep routine in your not too distant future.

That means she may sleep for longer stretches during the day and shorter stretches at night.

(In general, short stretches of sleep deprivation — when taking care of a new baby, for example — can be challenging, but aren't thought to have a long - term effect on health).

Newborn babies eat frequently and sleep in short stretches because their nervous and digestive...

Personally, I've been lucky to attend three times now and while each leaves you short on sleep, high on caffeine, and, yes, a little numb, what you'll really be left with are unforgettable memories of the perfect movie experience stretched into what feels like infinity.

Ample exercise after maturity — Greyhounds need the space to stretch out their legs and gallop in short 5 - minute bursts several times a day, after which they curl up on the sofa and sleep