Babies: 0 - 3 Months
Mrs.Greg
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8 weeks old and sleeping ALL THE TIME
Mrs.Greg
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I'm starting to worry a litlte bit about one of my girls. She sleeps really well during the night - BF'd at about 8 and goes right to bed, sleeps until I wake her around 2 or 3 a.m. and goes back to sleep, wakes around 8 a.m. for the day. I use the phrase "wakes for the day" very loosely, she is not awake much at all these days. She eats every 3 hours, sometimes I have to wake her to eat and if I do, I let her go only until it's been 3.5 hours since she ate last. So she's awake long enough to eat, most times going right back to sleep after. She might be awake for a total of 2 hours more during the day, that's in addition to being awake for like 20 minute per feeding. I can't help but compare her to her sister who is still waking every 3 hours during the night and is awake for about an hour after almost each feeding during the day. Anyone else's 8 week old sleeping a lot??
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Re: 8 weeks old and sleeping ALL THE TIME
As long as she is still having a good number of wet diapers and is gaining weight I wouldn't worry. (I say wet diapers b/c at this age she may start pooping 1x per day to once every 2 days or so, much different from the poop-with-every-feeding NB stage.) DS went through this as well when he was hitting his growth spurts- he'd eat like a fiend when he was awake and conk out for several hours at a time then STTN mostly with one waking at 2am to eat. Speaking of such he should be due for another growth spurt here soon...
HTH!
My son is like this some days, it really varies day to day. Yesterday he was dead asleep for close to 5 hours during the day, we tried everything to wake him with no luck. He also took several smaller naps and STILL went down like a rock at 7:15pm and slept until 1:45am for his night time feeding. Other days he only sleeps a few little one hour naps. I think some days they need a little more sleep than others.
At 8 weeks my DD did this too. I think it's totally normal. I wasn't too worried because when she started sleeping more during the day, she started sleeping better at night too.