how long is your 6 week old awake for at a time

monica92603 · October 2010

I really need to start tracking awake/sleep periods so I can try to get us on a schedule.

Today, we really slept in and didn't get up till 11. We were up for about an hour at 6am-7am, ate, changed, reswaddled and back to sleep till 11. She just fell back to sleep so she was awake for 3 hours. She fell asleep pretty much this same time yesterday from 1:30-5. Then she was awake for 4 hours before bed last night.

So, she is awake for about 3-4 hours at a time and sleeping about 3-5 hours at a time.

What about your baby??

Mrs_Marcos · October 2010

DD isn't 6 weeks yet, but she's pretty much put herself on a schedule.

Up (not by choice) around 6 am. Everyone in the house is getting ready for the day, so it's loud. Awake from then till about 10:00. She should've had a feeding and diaper change during that stretch. From 10-12 (sometimes 11) she's asleep. Then awake to eat around 12:30 then back down for another hour or so. She's usually awake when everyone gets home. (4:30ish 8:00). Fussy time around 5:30/6 till about 8 or 9:00.

If we've been running errands, she doesn't sleep as well and is a lot more cranky in the evening.

Andys_Candy · October 2010

mine is rarely up more than an hour and a half at a time, including feeding. FUSSY TIME is different, she's awake and crying the better part of 8-11pm

beccs98 · October 2010

Andys_Candy:
mine is rarely up more than an hour and a half at a time, including feeding. FUSSY TIME is different, she's awake and crying the better part of 8-11pm

This. Although the past week he was up for long stretches (I think that was a growth spurt though since today he's only had stretches of 20 minute awake times in between eating and sleeping)

Rbarrette56 · October 2010

She sleeps 1 1/2 -2 1/2 hrs at a time generally. Her wake time varies somewhere between 30 min and 2 hrs on average. She's been up for 3 hrs a handful of times.

Feeding schedule goes 6 or 7 am, 10, 1-130, 400, 730,930,1100, 3am.

Sometimes there is an extra feeding in there somewhere

azsheena · October 2010

Andys_Candy:
mine is rarely up more than an hour and a half at a time, including feeding. FUSSY TIME is different, she's awake and crying the better part of 8-11pm

This. I would like to keep him up a little more to try to help him fall asleep at night, but so far, this has not really worked.