Let's assume that your baby is at least 4 - 6 months old, follows something of a daily routine, and
sleeps at least a few hours at night.
Not exact matches
A quick fifteen minutes of napping can certainly help recharge your batteries and improve your cognitive functions for the next
few hours at least, but fall into a deeper
sleep that lasts beyond that golden twenty - minutes, and you could conceivably end up feeling worse rather than better.
Not sure how little your child is but I have read that even though babies can «
sleep thru the night»
at 3 — 4 months that is only considered from 12 am — 5 am and before they can start
sleeping 10 — 12
hours they should be
at least 14 lbs but even then some babies still take a
few more months to stop.
That way you are getting
at least a
few straight
hours of
sleep.
Newborns eat
at least 8 to 12 times a day and
sleep only a
few hours at a time.
For example, as Katie Madden, a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) suggests, it's absolutely possible for a partner to take over a night feeding so a breastfeeding mom can
sleep (or
at least have a
few hours without a small human touching them).
Always remember that your new born baby will be
sleeping more
hours than she is awake,
at least for the first
few months.
It came in more than abundantly with OK who I pumped religiously around the clock every two
hours for, it came in a tiny bit, but not much, with the singleton who was also way too early to attempt to save, and it came in even more abundantly than for OK with MK, even though I only pumped ever three
hours and made sure I got
at least one six
hour stretch of
sleep a night, and my worst oversupply problem of all of them was with YK, who I only pumped those first
few days a handful of times when I felt up to it.
Finally, for all new moms — but especially for moms of preemies — it's crucial to get uninterrupted
sleep for
at least a
few hours every night, breaks to recharge yourself during the week, good nutrition to support your physical and emotional recovery, and emotional support from those around you.
Sleep: Clocking
fewer than six
hours a night left people four times as likely to get sick when exposed to a cold virus as those who got
at least seven
hours of slumber, per a 2015 study.
Take a
few days of rest every 10 - 12 weeks,
sleep at least 8
hours per night, train hard and smart and you'll be well on your way to getting huge legs.
A
few other things have helped improve my
sleep experience: — no electronics
at least 1
hour before bed, including TV — amber goggles after nightfall — 500 mg of magnesium half an
hour before bed — 20 - minute epsom salt baths — guided meditation for relaxation just before
sleeping — bedroom cooled to 65F or lower — blackout curtains — eye mask
But for those of us actually working the booths, it's a lot more standing than walking, and the smiles get to feeling forced by eleven in the morning and there's still
at least twelve more
hours of smiling before the day ends and you get to
sleep a
few hours to prepare for the next morning's hangover and hard work.
Naturally I needed a place to
sleep at least for a
few hours.
At least until they come to do the floors and the room has to be cleared completely... then we will stay with my parents for a
few days (who conveniently just moved to PA and are now only 2.5
hours away), and then
sleep on the pull out couch in the living room for another night or two before we can set furniture and the rug back on the floor.