sleep baby

Sleep allows the baby to recover, grow and develop his brain. A baby sleeps a lot during the first months of his life.

The numbers of hours of sleep perday

Moments of sleep are higher than where he is awake and then sleep is increasingly short while when he was still awake are becoming longer :

Birth : 18 to 20 hours
1 to 3 months : 18 to 19 hours
4 to 5 months : 15 to 16 hours
9 to 12 months : 14 to 15 hours