How Much Sleep Do Babies Need?
The amount of time for which children sleep varies enormously. At birth the range is anything between 7 and 21 hours out of 24. This means that one baby could be sleeping as much as three times as another baby. However this becomes much more consistent over the course of the first year of life and the average amount of sleep of a baby of a year of age would be about 12 hours. However this still means that some babies will be sleeping more and others will be sleeping less. If your baby is waking repeatedly at night for no particular good reason, it is possible that they are going to bed too early, waking up too late or having too much sleep during the day.
