Sentences with phrase «full sleep cycle»

A nap that is long enough to include a full sleep cycle, at least 90 minutes, will limit sleep inertia by allowing you to wake from REM sleep.

She needs five hours of uninterrupted sleep per night to complete a full sleep cycle and restore her biorhythms.

These types of naps do not encompass a full sleep cycle, and babies often wake up cranky and still tired, rather than refreshed.

I refer to these shortened naps (or cat naps) as disaster naps because they are not a full sleep cycle.

(Although your baby may naturally sleep longer and hopefully will continue to after you move them to a sleep safe crib, 90 minutes is a full sleep cycle so if moving them wakes them you are not depriving them of sleep or disturbing them, this is an adequate nap.)

Which means, your baby is likely waking you before you've had a full sleep cycle, causing you to feel worse about the interrupted sleep.

But when we fall back asleep, even for a a minute or two, our body is told it's time to go back to sleep, as it's not completing a full sleep cycle.