This is because while an infant does cycle through sleep, there aren't
distinct sleep stages like an older baby or adult may experience.
Not exact matches
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.
As babies mature, quiet
sleep begins to differentiate into
distinct NREM
stages.
Also known as REM
sleep or dreaming
sleep, paradoxical
sleep is a
distinct stage of
sleep with intense brain activity in the forebrain and midbrain.
NestMaven explains that there are three lengths of naps that have
distinct benefits; each one is based on the average times it takes a person to cycle through the
sleep stages.