{"id":"33b76ca72019f82eadadfa3e0f678f5a","slug":"newborn-sleep-duration-one-week-old-cf6383","question":"newborn sleep duration one week old","answer":"At one week old, your newborn is sleeping roughly 13 hours daily—though that total comes in multiple fragments scattered throughout the day and night, with frequent wake-ups between feeds and diaper changes. This is completely typical newborn biology, not a sign of a sleep problem.\n\nWhat you're seeing during those weeks is mostly active sleep—the twitchy, noisy kind where your newborn's eyes flutter and their body jerks. This type of sleep is actually helping their brain develop and learn, so all those little movements and sounds are doing important work even when it might not look restful to you.\n\nSleep patterns shift noticeably over the coming weeks and months. By six months, your baby will sleep slightly less overall but stay awake for longer stretches and manage longer naps. For now at one week, expect frequent wake-ups, cluster them around feeds, and know that this fragmented pattern is how newborns are built. Things like room temperature, illness, and noise can shift these patterns day to day, but the variability itself is normal development—not something you need to fix.","sources":"[{\"pmid\":\"27448323\",\"title\":\"Infant sleep-wake behaviors at two weeks, three and six months.\",\"journal\":\"Infant behavior & development\",\"year\":\"2016\",\"url\":\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27448323/\",\"score\":0.79},{\"pmid\":\"29356197\",\"title\":\"Reference values and changes in infant sleep-wake behaviour during the first 12 months of life: a systematic review.\",\"journal\":\"Journal of sleep research\",\"year\":\"2018\",\"url\":\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29356197/\",\"score\":0.78}]","thread_json":null,"topic":"growth-norms-newborn","view_count":0,"created_at":"2026-10-02T00:01:09.433Z"}