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How to Make a Sleep Chart
- 1). Write the first letter of each day of the week down the left side of a piece of paper, starting with Monday, with a 1/2-inch line to the right of each. Include two or more weeks on one piece of paper. Draw horizontal lines between each day of the week, extending out about 6 inches.
- 2). List every other hour of the day along the top of the page starting with "12 a.m." and ending with the same. Draw a vertical line between each time and extending as far down as the days of the week.
- 3). Draw another vertical line from the middle of each time. This line represents whatever time it touches. The vertical line before it represents on hours before; the vertical line after represent the time after.
- 4). Choose a color to use for "sleeping." Blank spaces represent awake. Mark off the spaces the correlate with the date and time you or your baby sleeps. For example, if your baby slept from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. the colored space touches the middle line of "2 p.m." and the line between "4 p.m." and "6 p.m."
- 5). Track when you put your baby down and when it wakes up with the letters "D" and "U" respectively. Each letter lines up with the time of the action. Write "sleep" or "nap" in the colored potion to indicate nighttime sleep or nap time sleep.
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