Good Baby TipsTips for keeping your baby happy and healthy

Mothers often ask this question .Of course, the baby is the only one who answers it. One baby seems to need a lot, and another surprisingly little. As long as a baby is satisfied with his feeds, comfortable, gets plenty of fresh air and sleep in a cool place, you can leave it to him to take the amount of sleep he needs.

Most babies in the early months sleep from feed to feed if they are getting enough to eat and not having indigestion. There are a few babies, though, who are unusually wakeful right from the beginning, and not because anything is wrong. If you have this kind of baby, there’s nothing you need to do about it.

As your baby gets older, he gradually sleeps less and less. You’re apt to notice it first in the late afternoon. In time he becomes wakeful at other periods during the day. Each baby develops his own pattern of wakefulness and tends to be awake at the same time every day.

Towards the end of his first year, he probably is down to two naps a day; and between 1 and 1 1/2 years, he probably gives up one of those. It is only during infancy that you can leave the amount of sleep entirely up to the baby. A child by the age of 2 is a much more complicated being. Excitement, worries, fear of bad dreams, competition with a brother may keep him from getting to sleep.