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Are Short Naps During Daytime In A Newborn A Concern?

Hello. My baby is 9 weeks old, she sleeps very well during the night(7:30 pm - 2 am, after she eats at 2 pm she falls asleep right away until 5-5:30 am, again she falls asleep until 7-7:30 am). The problem is during the day time, her 4 naps are between 15-30 min. If she falls asleep with the pacifier after that one is falling she will wake up. Sometimes she wakes up crying. And iput her in the crib sleeping and if she is waking up she is moving a lot and she is woth her hands all over her face and head moving non stop her hands and body. Are all these normal things? Thanks a lot!
Mon, 28 May 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Your daughter is going by the book as far as amount of sleep at night plus 2 to 4 hours of nap time. A healthy infant ought to be able to self-soothe as she goes from awake to sleep onset and following normal awakenings through the night. Sleep onset associations are those conditions present at the time that she falls asleep and include being rocked, held, bottle fed or breast fed. These conditions may be required again during normal night-time arousal. Babies who soothe themselves back to sleep have brief arousals rather than prolonged nightwakings. To self-soothe, the infant is put to bed drowsy but still awake. You should help your daughter develop appropriate sleep onset associations that are readily available during the night without the need for parental intervention( falling asleep independently in crib, thumb sucking, use of transitional object). Transitional objects can be a pacifier, blanket, or mother's well-worn, knotted T-shirt with her scant. The same object should be used during the night and naptime. TV is not a transitional object.

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Are Short Naps During Daytime In A Newborn A Concern?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Your daughter is going by the book as far as amount of sleep at night plus 2 to 4 hours of nap time. A healthy infant ought to be able to self-soothe as she goes from awake to sleep onset and following normal awakenings through the night. Sleep onset associations are those conditions present at the time that she falls asleep and include being rocked, held, bottle fed or breast fed. These conditions may be required again during normal night-time arousal. Babies who soothe themselves back to sleep have brief arousals rather than prolonged nightwakings. To self-soothe, the infant is put to bed drowsy but still awake. You should help your daughter develop appropriate sleep onset associations that are readily available during the night without the need for parental intervention( falling asleep independently in crib, thumb sucking, use of transitional object). Transitional objects can be a pacifier, blanket, or mother s well-worn, knotted T-shirt with her scant. The same object should be used during the night and naptime. TV is not a transitional object. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.