Low sleep needs
Also called low sleep needs baby, low sleep needs child, lower sleep needs, low sleep need
Low sleep needs describes a baby or child who sleeps fewer hours in 24 hours than most others the same age and still seems alert and content. Parents use it as a label for the child, as in a low sleep needs baby, and set it against high sleep needs.
How it's said
Two low sleep needs children here, both of whom had particular disdain for the advice about wake windows!
Can we have a thread for other people with low sleep needs babies?
If I let him sleep as much as he wants, it is also 10h in total, so I think it's still a low sleep needs baby.
Who says it
Not to be confused with
- An overtired baby has stayed awake past the point of settling easily. Sleep consultants describe low sleep needs babies as coping with long stretches awake without seeming overtired, so parents of a baby who won't nap often wonder which one they have.
Where it came from
Sleep needs means how much sleep a child takes across a day and night. Research on infant sleep describes the first two years as a time of high variability, with big differences from one baby to the next.
Baby sleep consultants turned that spread into a scale of low, average and high sleep needs. They describe low sleep needs babies as taking shorter naps, dropping naps earlier and handling longer wake windows.