Keep in mind, not all babies are able to
sleep such long hours at this early an age.
Not exact matches
Harvard's Czeisler, perhaps the leading expert on
sleep and productivity, points out that while corporations have policies around harmful practices
such as smoking and drinking, they tacitly encourage
long hours unrelieved by sufficient rest.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women
sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single
hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how
long such a list might be!
By this time, many breastfed babies start to
sleep longer,
such as 6 - 8
hours over night.
Research has shown that sustained work periods
longer than 12
hours, often involving
sleep loss and fatigue can reduce levels of substances called catecholamines (
such as dopamine and norepinephrine), leading to stress, anxiety, mood deterioration, and decreased performance.
Some days towards the end of writing The Bees, I was working
such long hours that I probably would have
slept there if I could have done.
I wouldn't recommend putting in
such long hours, missing so many social events, or
sleeping so little, but the effort paid off because, at the end of two and a half years, we paid 100 % down on our first home!
Cats are well known for being able to
sleep for
long hours on end, but why is it
such a surprise when they start to snore?
Since the Yorkie
sleeps for
such a
long time (sometimes up to 10
hours per day even), after waking up, it already has a need.
After
such a
long time being exposed to the noise, Rose has severe
sleep deprivation — she averages only a half an
hour of
sleep a night when at her home, but can
sleep well when she goes away.