Sentences with phrase «sleep than adults»

Kittens need more NREM sleep than adults and with advancing years the amount of NREM sleep diminishes.

The brain grows and processes information during sleep, which is why infants and young children require more sleep than adults.

Children and teens, for instance, need more sleep than adults.

But children are known to need more sleep than adults, and other conditions can affect the «optimal» amount of sleep, such as activity level.

And young flies require much more sleep than adults.

Although they still need a lot more sleep than adults, very often kids of this age would be fighting to stay awake just to play a while longer.

At 19 months, toddlers still need a lot more sleep than adults, and they will probably spend more time sleeping at night and less time napping throughout the day.

Because babies and toddlers grow at such a fast rate (just look at that growth chart on your wall), they need a significantly larger quantity of sleep than adults.

Newborns have more light sleep than adults and older kids.

Babies, especially really young ones have much more light sleep than adults and older children.

Research has shown that teenagers need more sleep than adults and younger children (at least nine hours each night).

In part, this is one of the reasons why baby spends more time sleeping than adults.

«Baby owls sleep like baby humans: Owlets spend more time in REM sleep than adult owls.»

Kittens are growing hence they need more sleep than adult cats.

Not exact matches

If I can't sleep as an adult I can go to a doctor and try to figure out why, as babies... they need our help to get to the WHY rather than believing it's behavioural or a battle of wills.

Since babies spend most of their sleeping time in the deepest stage of sleep, there is a high likelihood they will sweat at night more than older children and adults.

A recent study of more than 3,100 U.S. infants who died of SIDS found that 70 percent were sleeping on a bed or other surface «not intended for infants» - most often with an adult or another child.

The baby's sleep cycle, especially during its first month, is a lot shorter than an adult's.

Because infants spend more time in sleep than children or adults, it is logical to assume that sleep is even more important for their rapidly developing nervous systems and for preserving the integrity of their sleep cycles [38].

A four to six - month - old baby has a sleep cycle that more resembles an adult rather than a newborn.

A baby's temperature can increase more easily than an adults and overheating can cause serious problems, as can bundling up a baby in something that they can suffocate on when sleeping.

Same with lack of sleep — divorced and separated adults get less sleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medisleep — divorced and separated adults get less sleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medisleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medisleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep MediSleep Medicine.

Today she's an adult, and still sleeps less than most (about 6 hours a night).

Their sleep cycles are much shorter than an adult's, and it takes time for those cycles to get longer and for your baby to learn how to fall back to sleep on his own if he wakes up in the middle of the night.

Rather than assuming that sleeping arrangement produces a particular «type» person it is probably more accurate to think of sleeping arrangements as part of a larger system of affection and that it is altogether this larger system of attachment relationships, interacting with the child's own special characteristics that produces adult characteristics.

From a biological point of view, one question begs answering: why or how could 40 - 60 % of otherwise healthy infants have sleep problems to solve and if this is percentage is anything near the truth then the cultural and or scientific models of normal healthy sleep that underlie our cultural ideologies must reflect far more about adults than they do about babies.

It is also important to know that bed - sharing means not putting a newborn in a bed with an adult other than the mother, who is biologically hardwired for sharing sleep with an infant (research indicates that most dads will change their sleep patterns over the course of a few months to become more aware as well).

Again, I call this «separate surface cosleeping» and it works just fine and is better for families who do not breastfeed their infants, or if the mother smoked during her pregnancy, or if some other adult other than the father is in the bed, or if that adult sleep partner is indifferent to the presence of the infant, or if older children are likely to come into bed with the baby.

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

More commonly, deformational plagiocephaly occurs postnatally and is associated with congenital torticollis, vertebral anomalies, neurologic impairment, or forced sleeping position.3 — 5 Few reports document any late effects of deformational plagiocephaly other than potential cosmetic concerns and the potential for strabismus, especially involving vertical eye movements.6,, 7 Plagiocephaly may be morphometrically evident in as many as 14 % of adults, but it is rarely recognized.8

Quantity and quality is based on individual need but studies show that children require more sleep and adults should have no less than 7 hours on average and no more that 8 hours.

As babies sleep more than an adult, they also entail a soft and comfortable sleeping bag which they can utilize for the night and even the day.

Babies do this too — but they have shorter sleep cycles, and more cycles than adults do.

Babies» sleep patterns mature over the first several years of life, and the sleep architecture of newborns is very different than that of adults.

Adults know that there is really nothing more peaceful than watching a child sleeping.

The infant sleep pattern is normally very erratic and they sleep for less periods of time than older children and adults.

Babies also have different sleep cycles than adults.

Also, I can think of several mechanisms by which a baby sleeping in an adult bed might come to harm, but I can't think of any obvious reason why a baby in a safe sleep space in its own bedroom (assuming that it has parents who are able to hear and responsive to its cries) should be at much greater risk than if it were on the other side of a wall in the parents» room?

«Many adults in America get less than the hours they need,» naturopathic sleep expert Dr. Catherine Darley tells Romper by email.

Adults are much more likely to awaken during REM than they are during deep sleep.

Infants also have shorter sleep cycles than adults, meaning they are biologically programed to sleep more lightly and experience more awakenings then adults.

A baby's sleep cycle is much different than an adult's.

Lewis and Janda found that college - age students who coslept as children were better adjusted and more satisfied with their sexual identities and behavior than college - age students who did not cosleep [Lewis RJ, Janda H: The relationship between adult sexual adjustment and childhood experience regarding exposure to nudity, sleeping in the parental bed, and parental attitudes towards sexuality.

It is more common in children than adults and is more likely to occur if the person is sleep deprived.

1999 Dr. Sears explains how babies sleep differently than adults, how sharing sleep can help the whole family sleep better, and encourages parents to have confidence in the own intuition and to be responsive to their babies and young children at night.

Babies have different sleep cycles than adults; they need to awaken periodically in the night to ensure that they don't fall into too deep of sleep from which they can't awaken.

Past research published in the journal Pediatrics has found that babies are up to 40 times more likely to die from suffocation while sleeping in an adult bed than they are when sleeping on their back in a safe crib.

There is evidence that this arrangement decreases the risk of SIDS by as much as 50 % 64,66,142,143 and is safer than bed - sharing64, 66,142,143 or solitary sleeping (when the infant is in a separate room).53, 64 In addition, this arrangement is most likely to prevent suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment, which may occur when the infant is sleeping in the adult bed.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

NIGHTTIME PARENTING helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.