ABSTRACT
The one-year-old's sleep The amount of time spent by her baby in sleep, and the time which she herself spends in persuading him into this state, is apt to be a big preoccupation for the mother during the first year or so of the child's life. Up to the time that toilet training replaces it as the major topic of domestic conversation, the extent of her baby's sleep, as it compares with that of other babies she knows, or perhaps with some arbitrary standard supplied by her imagination or by the baby book, is a subject for pride, or else for worry, irritation or shame. When we come to discuss the habits and expedients which are evolved by mothers in dealing with bedtime and wakefulness, the first necessity is, then, to examine the hard facts of sleep: how many hours of the day does the twelve-months child spend asleep, and how far do babies differ in their needs?
