an honest sleep question

MaliaMouse

I have read multiple places that my 18 month old should be getting about 13 hours of sleep total per day.  He goes to bed about 8-8:30 and is asleep about 30 min after going into his crib.  He sleeps until about 8 am (so just roughly 12 hours of night sleep).  He also varies between 2 naps and 1 nap a day.  Nap total sleep can be anywhere from 1.5 hours to 4 hours in total.  So on a very sleepy day he is getting 16 hours of sleep and on a moderate day 13.5.  I know this sounds stupid, but... is he sleeping too much?  Should I be concerned that he is sick or something?

juliane2004

Nope that's fine. It's an average of 13 hrs/day, which means some kids have more and some have less.

erino&chrish

I think that's totally normal.  I think the guideline is that they need at LEAST 13 hours.  My LO sleeps from 7 pm to 7:30 am and then naps an average of 2 hours a day, so he is at 14.5 hours.

MaliaMouse

Thanks for the reassurance and for not getting upset at me for asking something like that!  It is funny the things that worry me and the things that I let slide  

heatherlane

If he's healthy, I'm sure you just lucked out with a kid who sleeps like a teenager. Mine does 11-12 at night, naps 1 1/2-2 hours at daycare, but it's not enough for him so on the weekends he usually sleeps and hour or two later than normal and then takes a 3 hour nap to catch up.

kabarbanel

Sounds normal to me!

MrsLeslie030405

Am average of 13 hours means just that... an average where there will be babies on the high and low end... as long as your is happy and attentive generally speaking than you are doing good and all is well