Apr 262010
Sleep is a basic physiological need required for physical recovery, reinvigoration, body growth, brain maturation, learning and memory. Chronic and sustained sleep deprivation can lead to exhaustion, physical damage to body tissues, dysfunction of the immune system, severe stress etc. The growth hormone, the one responsible for a baby’s physical growth, is secreted mostly during the deep stages of a baby’s sleep. A severe sleep disorder could, therefore, lead to insufficient secretion of this hormone and to compromised body maturation.
How Much Sleep Do Children Need?
- Newborns: 11 to 18 hours
- Newborns and all infants, sleep on and off for a few hours at time. Babies don’t develop a regular awake/sleep pattern until about 6 months of age.
- Infants: 14 to 15 hours
- From two months to a year, infants’ sleeping patterns will change into a regular awake/ sleep pattern with one or two naps throughout the day.
- Toddlers: 12 to 14 hours
- Most toddlers will be sleeping through the night and only taking one nap during the day.
- Preschoolers: 11 to 13 hours
- Consistent sleeping patterns should be established by now and toward the last few months of age 5, naps will probably end.
- School-Age: 10 to 11 hours
- School-age children need adequate sleep to function at their best. Added demands on their time for school, outside activities, and home life, can add to school-age children not getting enough rest.
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