If this is the case, your baby isn't getting
the consolidated sleep she needs, and neither are you.
Not exact matches
As your baby gets older, his / her
sleep needs will lessen and
consolidate to a long afternoon nap.
On the whole, he gets the
sleep he
needs in a 24 hr period (15 + hours) except that the
sleep is never
consolidated.
And the assumption by pediatric
sleep researchers that there is one ideal
sleeping arrangement for all, or that cosleeping is harmful and detrimental or that infants
need to «
consolidate their
sleep as soon in life as is possible» is not only fallacious but harmful and it explains why western parents are the most exhausted, disappointed least satisfied, (yet, most educated and well read), I am convinced, than any other parents on the planet, as regards their infant's
sleep.
Nighttime
sleep is becoming
consolidated now and feedings may be non-existent or he may still
need up to 2 feeding per night around 12 am and one in the early morning.
One way to improve your baby's
sleep health is to work to
consolidate sleep with as few wakings and fragmentation as possible throughout the night (once the child is old enough to
consolidate calories during the day, meaning they don't
need to be fed every few hours).
These novel results are important because they could reconcile two theories on
sleep's function in memory that are often deemed contradictory: one sees
sleep as a time for
consolidating knowledge acquired during the day; the other imagines it to be a sieve for discarding information no longer
needed.
Then he let them
sleep for as long as they wanted, which proved to be longer than usual, suggesting that they
needed time to
consolidate what they'd learned.
If these people are really able to
consolidate their memories and brain tasks throughout the day, he explained, perhaps they actually don't
need as much
sleep at night.