How much daytime sleep should my 9 week old be having?

When I had my daughter, back in 1960, I consulted loads of baby books on this among other matters.

Everyone said something different: "Baby will sleep 20 hours out of the 24", "Baby will sleep 18 hours of the 24", "Baby will sleep ....... and so on.

We concluded that baby just hadn't read the books.

Try giving him some warm boiled water if he wakes restless - he may just be a bit thirsty. It worked for mine but took me a while to realise what the problem was.

I have a four and half month old, and he does not go through the night, I wish he did.

I am putting down about 8pm and wakes around 8am, but needs at least two feeds in this time, then he is awake most the day, just having the odd 45 mins during the course of the day.

But all the health visitors say at 9 weeks, your baby should be asleep for around 20hours a day.

My boy is 9 weeks too and we play the guessing game when it comes to how much sleep LOL. Normally he is asleep around 10pm (although we are trying to move that up to around 8:30) and he'll wake once or twice throughout the night to eat and generally wants to be on the go at 5am but I put him back down and he will sometimes drift back off getting up anywhere between 7 and 8 am. Then our day goes like this:

Eat, (breakfast)

play,

sleep by one hour after getting up for about 45 min

eat

play/walk/watch mommy

sleep for about 30 minutes

eat (lunchtime)

short play if he's cranky, long play if happy

nap time varies here, sometimes he will have a long nap, sometimes a short nap and then he eats and naps some more usually reversing the short or longness of his nap. Pretty much he gets about 2 sometimes 3 hours sleep in the afternoon.

Up again to eat around 5:30/6pm

fussy time - (he still has bouts with colic)

New schedule - bed at 8:30 after eating, old schedule was eat, play and then when getting tired around 10pm off to bed but he was waking up often during the night and cranky all day. With the earlier bedtime he is so much happier during the day but we just started that a day or two so we will see if the nap schedule changes now.

when my boy was 9 weeks (he is now 10m) he was having 3 sleeps during the day of at least an hour each and then down at 8pm and up at 8am with at least 2 feeds during the night.

That being said all babies have different sleep requirements, and no babies sleep patterns are set in stone and change quite frequently. Try to go with the flow a little, but maybe have some set sleep times. If your baby doesn't get much sleep and is a happy bubba then he is probable getting enough. If he is tired and cranky then you need to try to get him to sleep a bit more.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

If he doesn't want more than 45 mins then he's getting enough sleep! Babies won't deliberately deprive themselves of sleep. You're lucky that he's going through at such as young age already!

Don't try to "make" him sleep more in the day, as you might find he doesn't sleep so well at night. He is obviously getting what he needs.

hi, my son is 10 weeks old and he roughy sleeps the same at night although last night he went from 8pm till 7am

he doesnt sleep much thru the day either. just cat naps.....has about 30-45 mins 3 times aday

i find each day different....somedays he will have 2 hours sleep at a time

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Sleep was one of the hardest times for us, me and my little one.It sounds like yours is sleeping great at night. ALthough you may want to start putting him down a little earlier at night, but do it slowly. During the day, he should be getting about 4 hours of sleep. Total, they need about 15-20 hours.

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If he isn't cranky during the day, then he's getting enough sleep.

Pauline