Sentences with word «wakeful»

I was actually a little annoyed, because I know so many moms of wakeful babies who get freaked out when their pediatrician asks them this question.

Like adults, babies go through several cycles of wakeful periods during the night.

Patrick is starting to have a lot more wakeful time so she helped me set up lots of baby areas in our house.

Older babies are more capable of maintaining their biorhythms during wakeful periods and deeper sleep.

Right now he has a very big wakeful window from afternoon nap to bedtime.

Delighting in your baby nurtures the bonds of attachment during the day and even during wakeful nights!

Researchers used MRI to assess the strength of functional connectivity in the default - mode network, which are the regions of the brain most active when a person is in wakeful rest.

There are quiet leisure moments by day, and wakeful hours at night, when this wholesome and delightful exercise may be engaged in to great advantage.

Most breastfed newborns bunch their feedings together during wakeful times or «cluster nurse.»

Make sure your son is going down from a completely wakeful state at bedtime without you having to do anything to help him get to sleep so you can be absolutely sure that he knows how to put himself to sleep so he can apply that skill at 5 am.

Leah used to be very wakeful between 7 and 10 pm but recently started taking naps in the early evening.

For up to 5 percent of the population, though, the night is full of wakeful moments, owing to a sleep disorder known as persistent primary insomnia (PPI).

Even if you're breastfeeding, moms of babies who sleep for long nighttime stretches are likely to resume normal periods sooner than moms with wakeful babies.

Mothers» and babies» sleep cycles are actually synchronized during co-sleeping so that the mother is already entering a more wakeful stage at the same time her baby is.

Dream consciousness is not the same as wakeful consciousness.

Sometimes children are not asleep at all; they may go through a period where they remain wakeful for long hours.

However, if you are aware of certain facts and regulate your coffee intake, the baby should not even be wakeful throughout the night.

Now I don't usually drink anything with caffeine in it because both my sons are made wakeful by it through my breast milk.

A 6 week old baby may become more sensitive to certain things, or be more wakeful as well.

(When our second child proved to be a rather wakeful baby, he wrote that we were evidently suffering from «weeping and teething of Nash»).

It is generally recommended athletes sleep for the amount of time that is required to feel wakeful during the day, which may vary considerably between individuals.

If the identification of the stream of conscious human occasions with the synthetic unity of those brain waves known to be correlated with human wakeful awareness is correct, there will be two ways to know it — a direct and immediate way, and an external way.

I wakened before dawn and shouted; I hoped in thy words; my eyes were wakeful before the watches of the night, to meditate on thy sayings (Ps.

Large amounts of caffeine may result in a more wakeful fussy baby.

If your baby seems particularly wakeful or fussy and there is a significant amount of caffeine in your diet, you might want to cut back or stop the caffeine for 2 - 3 weeks to see if it makes a difference.

Instead of just listing normal baby behavior, you should also include a list of warning signs of when a mom should seek help from an experienced IBCLC, e.g., (1) insufficient wet & dirty diapers (2) baby not regaining birth weight by two weeks (3) baby not gaining 5 - 7oz / week in months 0 - 4 (per Kellymom)(4) baby sleeping all the time and not showing periods of wakeful alertness

I would just listen and watch — not moving a single muscle — until he began to make actual wakeful noises.

After you've cleaned those chub rolls and find you need more wakeful tricks, finish off their spa time with a little brushing of the hair and a baby massage with your favorite lotion.

During this time she had two feedings with 3 hours of sleep and big blue - eyed wakeful periods in between.

Some younger babies seem to be more wakeful when their mothers drink coffee, but that is unusual, and is usually outgrown.

«Temporarily relieves the symptoms of simple restlessness and wakeful irritability due to cutting teeth.

You'll want to start tummy time as early as the first week, laying your infant face - down across your lap for a few minutes during alert wakeful periods.

My stinging sleep deprived eyes would well up as I detailed my baby's wakeful habits and I'd cop the standard lines...

However, it's bittersweet... for although it's true that there are countless joys and benefits from building families through adoption, there's also inherent sorrow and loss resulting from separation from their birth mothers — they who had comforted them in the womb and held them during those first wakeful moments.

When she was going through a very wakeful phase, we had a rotation of every other night.

As anyone who has spent wakeful nights suffering from jetlag will attest, the human body has a strong sense of time.

«These findings are similar to known EEG patterns in wakeful memory recollection, suggesting a continuum of cerebral processes throughout the sleep - wake cycle,» says Michael Czisch, who studies sleep at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.

More recent neuroanatomy studies have shown that the melanopsin - containing RGCs also link up to brain areas that control a variety of responses to light that don't require the image - forming visual system, such as constriction of the pupils and the direct effect of light on sleep - wake state — what makes us drowsy in dark seminar rooms or wakeful if the lights are kept on all night.

«Wakeful sleep can raise blood pressure, which can increase the risk for stroke,» he explained.

The research led the respected Cleveland Clinic to conclude: «It is said to generate creativity, a state of wakeful relaxation, and higher learning via the ability to ignore distracting information during complex tasks.»

Even relatively simple balances like Vrksasana (Tree Pose) and Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose) demand our full, wakeful attention in a way that other standing poses do not.