The phrase
"good sleeper" refers to someone who easily falls asleep, stays asleep for a long time, and wakes up feeling rested.
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My first born isn't a
naturally good sleeper so I have to work at how many hours of sleep our family gets per night.
After a few nights of being separated from me and crying himself to sleep he was a
much better sleeper than he'd ever been before.
No matter
how good a sleeper your toddler is, you're bound to run into a problem or two from time to time.
She's not sleeping thru the night, but she's a pretty
darn good sleeper and so easy going.
But when I read articles like this, I start to wonder if there's something with my son who has always been a
naturally good sleeper.
Never had any issues with my daughter as she was a
very good sleeper but my little boy is a whole different story.
I knew families, however, who had similar oldest children who were
not good sleepers as babies who were 4 - 5 who hadn't yet «grown out of it.»
Prior to having baby number two, I used to joke that there was no way that I'd have another baby who was as
good a sleeper as my first - born son.
Postpartum depression can be a seriously scary ordeal, so don't neglect your own needs for the sake
of better sleeper.
The study included 28 adult participants — 18 who suffered from insomnia for a year or more and 10 considered
good sleepers with no reports of trouble sleeping.
While naps can help bad sleepers pay off their growing sleep debt, studies shows they can make
even good sleepers more productive by boosting their ability to learn.
For a start, 18 months is a development period and it is very common that even
really good sleepers start waking up at night or refuse to go to bed alone all of a sudden.
I think I may have mentioned this before, but my house is not made up
for good sleepers.
Our boys have been
good sleepers since about five months of age, when the baby sleep training techniques we employed finally paid off.
«My 3 1/2 year old has been a very
good sleeper most his life, until dun dun dun, the 3yo sleep regression.
We got really lucky that both were
good sleepers by 4 months or so and then we only had to get up once a night for feedings.
My theory is that my kids have gotten easier and been
better sleepers because my diet has improved with each pregnancy.
And while my daughter Montana was a pretty
good sleeper when she was younger, sleep has not been easy with her.
The fact is «why some babies are not
good sleepers despite having all facilities» is a hard question to answer.
Do you have a
generally good sleeper who just recently developed a «minor» sleep issue (e.g., she stopped napping but she is still tired, he started fighting bedtime, or she developed a fear of the dark)?
«Night wakings are a normal part of our sleep cycle, but
good sleepers know how to fall back asleep without help,» says Jodi Mindell, author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep.
Always put your two
best sleepers together OR the ones that are on the closest sleep schedules (dictated by nap or school schedules, usually), to minimize the accidental wake - up calls.
My son was a pretty
damn good sleeper (after 3 months old) thanks to hitting rock bottom, completly sleep deprived, living off of diet pepsi, and some serious googling that I did for every possible trick and tip.
«In our high - velocity world, many people believe that
good sleepers fall asleep in a flash.
The study was conducted on a group of 62 healthy men and women who did not have any issues with sleep and were
all good sleepers.
The study involved a community - based sample of 2,892
good sleepers with no lifetime history of insomnia.
Because kids all over the world do not belong to same typology, some of them are really
not good sleepers they do not sleep 6 hours in one day at a time.
My son was a very
good sleeper as an infant, and it was hard to counteract the time he spent resting on his head at night with the repositioning and tummy time I was doing when I was supervising him.
Salas and her team, reporting in the March issue of the journal Sleep, found that the motor cortex in those with chronic insomnia was more adaptable to change — more plastic — than in a group
of good sleepers.
Johns Hopkins researchers report that people with chronic insomnia show more plasticity and activity than
good sleepers in the part of the brain that controls movement.
And believe it or not, both of my kids eventually outgrew this and became
very good sleepers.
It takes a while and most children have periods of waking up for many years, no matter
how good sleepers they are during other periods.
That's interesting, because I actually am not
a good sleeper.
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