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Tiredness Befalls Us All At Some Point😴Doesn’t it?
What is it that sets the intense need to snooze off without warning some days, when we least want it to?
This bit I can understand, well, for the dog anyway. After all, that’s all our family cairn terrier spent most of his time doing when he was alive.
By the same token then, as babies and toddlers, sleep continues to remain uppermost in their daily activities. Were you aware that newborn babies during the first three months of their life, spend as much as 14–17 hours in any 24-hour period sleeping? Developmentally, between 4 months and 11 months, this reduces to around 12 -15 hours. As a toddler (from the age of one to two years) that same amount of sleep reduces to between 11 -14 hours a day, and the pre-school years of 3–5 years, then drop to just 10 -13 hours in a 24-hour cycle. Data surrounding this was provided by The Sleep Foundation.
It certainly remains very obvious why there is this vital need for such patterns of sleep of course.
Babies need more sleep than adults because they are growing at such a rapid rate. The pituitary gland, responsible for secreting growth hormones, works more quickly when babies are asleep. The average weight gain of babies aged 1 month to 6 months is a staggering 5–7 ounces a…
