Children's Sleep Needs

clipped from www.aafp.org Change in Hours of Daytime and Nighttime Sleep with Increasing Age FIGURE 1. In newborns, the amount of sleep is divided fairly equally between night and day. In the normal infant, nighttime sleep gradually becomes consolidated over the first year into a single uninterrupted block of time, and daytime sleep gradually decreases over the first three years. Adapted with permission from Ferber R. Solve your child's sleep problems. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.