Introducing a puppy to the concept that they are expected to seep for eight hours at night is of course rather different to this, and it takes some time to adjust to, both physically and in terms of their natural body clocks. If you buy or adopt a puppy that has previously been living with their dam and littermates, their sleeping patterns when they come to live with you are likely to involve periods of wakefulness and sleep staggered throughout the day rather than a night of sleep and the days spent largely awake. Read on to learn about some of the things that you can do to help your puppy to sleep through the night, and reduce wakefulness during the dark hours. That said, there are a number of things that you can do to try to readjust your pup’s body clock and begin to introduce them to sleeping through the night, without interfering with their natural requirements. However, trying to stop your puppy from napping, or deliberately waking them up from a nap to avoid restlessness at night isn’t really a good approach to take – pups sleep a lot because they need to, and preventing them from resting and recharging when they are tired can lead to grumpiness, and even hamper their development. Night-time wakefulness is a common puppy issue, and if your pup seems to spend half the night crying, pacing about or otherwise making a fuss, you may be wondering if you should try to keep them awake during the day so that they are ready to sleep by bedtime. Having a new puppy often comes accompanied by many of the same challenges – puppies spend a lot of their time sleeping, and will often take several naps during the day as they get worn out very quickly.
Parents also know that if their child gets sleepy and naps during the day, this is apt to lead to night-time wakefulness, and so trying to avoid naps and keep the child awake during the daytime is one approach to helping them to sleep through the night. As anyone who has ever had a baby will know, youngsters tend to sleep and wake up at all sorts of odd hours, which means that most new parents go through a long period of nights of broken sleep and keeping odd hours in the first few months.
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