Scientists have done many experiments on dreaming and sleep. They have found that there are two different kinds of sleep and dreaming. Back to School Schedule Back to school means resetting biological clocks to ensure sufficient sleep every night and a healthier, safer, and more productive school year. Some children are excessively sleepy during the daytime hours. The most frequent cause of this daytime sleepiness is insufficient sleep at night.
Some medications also interfere with children's normal alertness.
Habits Newborn infants have irregular sleep cycles, which take about 6 months to mature. While newborns sleep an average of 16 to 17 hours per day, they may only sleep 1 or 2 hours at a time. The quality and quantity of an infants's sleep affects the well-being of everyone in the household, and it's the difference between having cheerful, alert parents and members of the walking dead. By this age, you and your baby should be well on the way toward an established sleep pattern. Most likely the pattern includes at least two naps a day and at least seven or eight hours at the longest stretch of nighttime sleep.