Free printable · 24-hour sleep log
A free printable 24-hour baby sleep log. Each row is one day from 6 am to 6 am, so you shade the hours your baby sleeps and mark feeds and night wakes, and after a few days the naps and nights line up into a pattern you can see. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or download the PDF. Nap times on this page are guidance, not medical advice.
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Shade when asleepF FeedW Night wakeD Diaper
| Date | 6a | 7a | 8a | 9a | 10a | 11a | 12p | 1p | 2p | 3p | 4p | 5p | 6p | 7p | 8p | 9p | 10p | 11p | 12a | 1a | 2a | 3a | 4a | 5a | Naps | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Day runs 6 am to 6 am. The thicker line at 7 pm marks where naps end and the night begins.
Notes for the week (what helped, what changed)
Prints on one page of A4 or US Letter. Free to print and copy for your family, nanny or sitter.
How to use it
One row is one 24-hour day, from 6 am to 6 am the next morning. Start on any day of the week.
Each hour has a dotted half-hour line. Shade from when they fell asleep to when they woke, to the nearest 15 minutes or so. Night sleep runs across the right-hand side of the row.
Write F above the time of a feed and W where your baby woke in the night. Add D for diapers if that is useful to you.
Note the number of naps and roughly how much day and night sleep there was. After a few days, the rows start to show the pattern: when naps tend to happen and how long the first stretch of the night is.
Reading the week
If the shading stacks up in the same columns most days, that is your baby’s natural nap time. Useful to know when you plan outings or a handover.
The unshaded stretch between two sleeps is a wake window. They usually get longer through the day and as your baby grows.
A row of W marks at similar times shows when the night tends to break up. It helps whoever is on the night shift know what to expect.
Look at the week, not a single row. Teething, outings and clock changes all leave a mark for a day or two.
| Age band | Age in weeks | Naps a day | Wake window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newborn | 0–11 weeks | 4–5 | 45m – 1h 15m |
| 3–6 months | 12–25 weeks | 3–4 | 1h 45m – 2h 30m |
| 6–9 months | 26–38 weeks | 3 | 2h 15m – 3h |
| 9–14 months | 39–60 weeks | 2 | 2h 45m – 3h 45m |
| 14–24 months | 61+ weeks | 1–2 | 4h – 6h |
A starting point, not a target. To work out today’s next nap from the last wake time, use the wake window calculator. For the week the clocks go back, the clock-change nap planner gives a day-by-day plan.
Paper or phone
A paper log works when it lives in one place. At 3 am, or when the nights are split between two parents, it is easy for one wake to go unwritten. In BabyRelay, starting and ending a sleep is one tap from either phone, night wakes and feeds go on the same timeline, and the next nap window updates as you log. Scan the QR code on the sheet to get the app.
FAQ
A chart with one row per day and one column per hour, where you shade the hours your baby is asleep. Because each row covers a full day and night, a week on one page shows your baby’s sleep pattern at a glance, which a list of times does not.
So that each night is one unbroken stretch at the end of the row, instead of being split across two rows at midnight. It matches the BabyRelay app, which counts sleep starting between 6 am and 7 pm as naps and anything later as night sleep.
In BabyRelay’s guide, newborns have about 4 to 5 naps a day, 3 to 6 months 3 to 4, 6 to 9 months 3, 9 to 14 months 2, and 14 to 24 months 1 to 2. This is guidance, not medical advice; every baby is different.
On the night the clocks go back, the hour from 1 am to 2 am happens twice, so that row covers 25 hours by the clock. Shade by the clock on the wall and write “clocks back” on the row, so the long night is not misread. The next few rows may look an hour out of step while your baby’s day catches up, which is why the week view helps. In spring, when the clocks go forward, that night is an hour shorter.
Yes, that is what it is for: leave it where everyone can reach it. If you would rather log on your phones, BabyRelay puts sleeps, feeds and night wakes from every caregiver on one shared timeline. The free plan covers 1 child, you and 1 other caregiver.
More free printables: nanny daily log and grandparent babysitting sheet. Or plan the day with the wake window calculator.
Share the schedule with grandparents, nannies and co-parents. In BabyRelay everyone logs naps on the same timeline, the next nap window updates as they do, and a handoff summary tells the next person where the day is up to.
Free for 1 child, you and 1 caregiver. BabyRelay Family adds more children and caregivers ($9.99/month or $59.99/year in the US, checked 24 September 2026). See pricing.