What is "napping"?
So, napping really is an extension of the total sleep time that we need in 24 hours. So younger babies may sleep for, if they, say up to two weeks of age, 16 hours in 24 hours, but they will wake up multiple times for feeds. As you get older the time you get to sleep at night is longer. So, by six months, you should be able to sleep through the night. But you may still need, at six months, you need about, say 14 or 15 hours of sleep. So you can't sleep at, I mean, a night is not long enough for 15 hours because the light comes, you know, it's daytime. So, well, babies will wake up. But they still have a deficit. So they will nap to make up the deficit of what they need in 24 hours. So, in a sense, napping is really just an extension of the amount of sleep that you need for your age. And napping can be, usually, in the daytime naps will not be very long. They may be, again, the younger you are, the naps, they will be longer. But as you get older, the naps get shorter and shorter but they may be multiple. You know, in a younger baby, you may still need two naps a day, or even three naps, and as they get older, two naps, and then when you become a toddler, you may get by with one nap. Again, you got to understand that it's how much sleep does a child need in 24 hours? And then it's the naps plus what they've slept at night that makes up that total.
