GETTING a good night's sleep is essential for a child's mental, physical, social and emotional development. But bedtime can be a challenge for parents — here we examine how much sleep a child needs and when they should go to bed. What time should children go to bed? The question of what time children should go to sleep has more than one answer, and many parents take different approaches.
However, there is some consensus that a regular bedtime routine should be established when your babies are as young as four months old. Child sleep consultants thesleepsisters.co.
uk published their thoughts in a handy guide: Newborn babies (up to three months): Babies at this age don't need a bedtime, and instead generally sleep in short bursts of two hours, day and night 1–4 months: 8–11pm - As young babies are still feeding regularly, this is the recommended time frame to put them down 4–8 months: 5.30–7.30pm - Along with regular daytime naps, an earlier bedtime can help babies get all the sleep they need 8–10 months: 5.
30–7pm - The Sleep Sisters recommend that for babies at this age, bedtime should be no later than 3.5 hours after their second nap. The time frame is shorter as they're likely to have cut out their third nap.
10–15 months: 6–7.30pm - As you may well be cutting down on your baby's naps, it's important to bring bedtime forward — but not more than 4 hours after your baby's last nap. 15 months –3 years: 6–7.
30pm - Again, once naps have stopped totally, be.