Independently, at this age, only a small part of children can fall asleep, while most of the kids need help from their parents for this. To understand when the crumb should be laid, young parents need to know how much the child should sleep and be awake at 7 months. In this article we will try to understand this issue.
How much does the baby sleep in 7 months?
According to statistics, the total duration of a child's sleep at the age of 7 months is about 15 hours a day. It should be borne in mind that every kid is individual, and some children need to sleep a little longer, and the other, on the contrary, is enough and shorter duration of sleep.
Night sleep of a child in 7 months lasts about 11-12 hours. Almost all children at this age wake up at night to eat. Parents of artificial children will most likely have to get up 1 or 2 times a night to prepare a bottle with a mixture for their child. Breastfeeding in most cases sleep worse, they can suck mother's breast literally every hour, so many women prefer a joint sleep with their son or daughter.
The child at 7 months usually adjusts to a new regime of daytime sleep. Before that time, the baby slept in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening, now most of the kids need a two-time rest during the day. The duration of each sleep period on average is about 1.5 hours.
It is not necessary to accustom crumbs to a certain regime, if your child is not yet ready for such changes and wants to rest more often. Since how much the child sleeps at the age of 7-8 months is a strictly individual characteristic of each baby, give him the opportunity to understand when to change.
If you start laying your baby to sleep when you see that he really wants it, the periods of his wakefulness will eventually increase, and, eventually, the crumb will independently switch to 2 daytime sleep. Usually this process does not take more than two weeks.
Despite this, try not to allow your child to stay awake for more than 4 hours in a row. Otherwise, you can skip the moment when the crumb should be put in bed, and it will be extremely difficult to do it. More detailed study of the question of what duration of sleep is necessary for a child at 7 months, you can by reading the following table:
