Baby sleep schedule at 1 month: wake windows, naps and night feeds
Lulla TeamPublished Updated
At 1 month your baby still needs 14 to 17 hours of sleep across the day, with about 8 to 9 of those at night — still broken by feeds — and 4 to 5 naps filling in the rest. The visible change from the first weeks is the awake time: wake windows now stretch to 45 to 75 minutes.
That extra half hour buys your baby time to look at your face, track a high-contrast pattern and start responding to you. It also makes it easier to overshoot. The end of every wake window should get quieter than the start, so your baby arrives at the crib winding down rather than revving up.
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Does this 1 month schedule match your day?
Lulla times the naps and tells you when the wake window is closing, so you do not have to keep count in your head.
The day-night rhythm is still immature at 1 month. Melatonin production has not settled into a cycle yet, so long organized nights aren't on the table. If the longest stretch of sleep lands in the late afternoon and the 4 am shift is wide awake, nothing has gone wrong — the internal clock simply hasn't switched on. Daylight during the day and dark nights are worth keeping up, because they do no harm, but the evidence that they speed things up is weak: the clock settles mostly with age.
What has changed is how present your baby is. Eye contact holds longer, your voice gets a reaction, and the first real social smile often appears this month. Use the fresh part of the wake window for that, and keep the last stretch calm. Evening fussiness is also common now — a long unsettled patch before the night — and it's usually cumulative tiredness rather than anything you did.
A sample day
At 1 month the day is still built around feeds rather than a clock. Use the sample below as a picture of how 4 to 5 naps and 45 to 75 minute wake windows can fall, and shift the times freely to fit your baby.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 7:00 | Wake-up and first feed |
| 8:00 | Nap 1 · approx. 45 min |
| 10:00 | Nap 2 · approx. 60 min |
| 12:30 | Nap 3 · approx. 45 min |
| 14:30 | Nap 4 · approx. 60 min |
| 16:45 | Nap 5 · approx. 30 min |
| 20:00 | Bedtime routine and lights out |
A sample day to give you a rough idea — every baby is different. Adjust the times to your child's sleep cues, and talk to your pediatrician about anything that worries you.
Your baby's sleep schedule, by age
One table with everything that matters: total sleep per 24h, wake windows and number of naps, from newborn to age 3. Total sleep follows the National Sleep Foundation recommendations.
Tips for this age
- Back to sleep for every nap and every night — including when grandparents or a sitter do the settling; there is no exception to the position.
- Keep the crib empty: no loose blankets, pillows or soft toys before 12 months. A correctly sized sleep sack is the warm option.
- By day, keep your baby in natural light and the ordinary noise of the house, and at night keep the room dark and quiet — advice that does no harm, even though the evidence that it speeds up the day-night rhythm is weak.
- Wake windows are not all equal — the first of the morning is usually the shortest — and a few days of logging in Lulla will show you your baby's own pattern.
- If evening crying is inconsolable, keeps escalating, or comes with feeding trouble or fever, have your pediatrician take a look rather than assuming it is just colic.
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Keep reading
- Baby tiredness signs: how to read them before the crying starts
- How to build the perfect sleep routine for your baby
- How much do newborns sleep? What's normal by age and when it's too much
Sources
Total sleep per 24 hours follows the National Sleep Foundation's ranges (2015); at 3 months we smooth the step between two of them to 13 to 16 hours. Night sleep, wake windows and the number of naps are Lulla's own reference points, not recommendations from the organizations below. This information is educational and does not replace advice from your pediatrician.
- Hirshkowitz M, Whiton K, Albert SM, Alessi C, Bruni O, DonCarlos L, et al. National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary. Sleep Health. 2015;1(1):40–43.
- American Academy of Pediatrics — Safe Sleep
- NHS — Helping your baby to sleep
- World Health Organization — Guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years of age