Consider, your newborn has a startle reflex and enters sleep through
an active sleep stage.
Not exact matches
Infants enter
sleep through the
active stage, and alternate between
active and quiet every 50 to 60 minutes.
Adults have four
stages of
sleep, plus REM (rapid eye movement); infants only have two —
active and quiet.
Your baby's brain might be very
active and will need to «relearn» how to
sleep as he or she adjusts to a new
stage of development.
This is a complex neurological process that is a reflection of your baby's developmental
stages, not what you have «taught» your baby: for the first four months, babies enter
sleep from an
active sleep phase and younger babies also have a startle reflex that can wake them randomly, so they will usually need help to calm and settle into a deeper
sleep at first.
All babies could benefit from an easy place to settle down and go to
sleep, as
sleep is very much needed in early
stages of development to keep an
active and curious mind that is constantly learning.
You move through
stages of
sleep that could be divided into two simple categories: deep
sleep and
active sleep.
Now that your baby is older, she is beginning to enter the adult world of
sleep, which means that she will be cycling in and out of very distinct
stages: deep
sleep and
active sleep, just like you.
Moreover, between these
stages, they may spend a couple of minutes in «transitional
sleep,» a rather restless state that looks like a mash - up of
active and quiet
sleep, and which scientists don't yet understand.
rem
sleep, named for the rapid eye movements that accompany it, is the
active, dreaming
stage of
sleep, in which the body is paralyzed and the mind is dreaming.