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is your baby up all day and sleeps through the night?

mauied08mauied08 member
in August 2013 Moms

my son just turned 6 weeks today and for the past 4 days hes been up from 7am until 9- midnight then he falls asleep and doesnt go for his next feed for 6 to 8 hours. he takes about 3 small naps during the day for maybe 30 mins. wants to eat every 1-2.5 hours.

i started a couple a weeks ago with feeding him every 3 hours during the day light hours and if he was sleeping i would wake him up on the 3 hour to feed him, then at night let him wake you up when he's hungry.

i got this info from a book called "baby 911". this method was suppose to get him to sleep those 4-5 hours he took in the day and tranfer them to the night hours so i can get some sleep. 

well it working too well. its kind of crazy with all the cluster feeding during the day and playing with my son all day but i wasnt expecting for him to sleep so long during the night. it kind of freaks me out.

i asked his dr about this. she said that was odd. she said to wake him in the middle of the night and dont let him go past four hours without eating. i told her i tried but hes in a milk coma.so she said, well as long as hes eating during the day then guesses its ok. hes 9.6oz now and eats about 25-26 oz. during the day.

is anyone else going through this? i feel like hes too young to be sleeping this long. but idk im a ftm.

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  • CaliforniaDream87CaliforniaDream87 member
    Wow I would love for my baby to have this schedule. I'm jealous, like really jealous.

    Anyway, if the pedi. isn't worried then you shouldn't either.
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    CaliforniaDream87 said:

    Wow I would love for my baby to have this schedule. I'm jealous, like really jealous.

    Anyway, if the pedi. isn't worried then you shouldn't either.

    Me too.

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  • mommabmbmommabmb member
    Joel sleeps 6+ hours at a time at night. I know what you mean about waking up to feed them .... It's nearly impossible.

    Our ped's instruction was to keep trying to wake him until he gets back to birthweight, and then he can sleep until as long as he wants to.

    It sounds like a blessing, but it is scary and hard to manage hourly feedings all day long. We didn't follow any plans, it's just the schedule he made for us!
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  • CelticWifeCelticWife member
    Wait... He is awake from 7am to 9pm, maybe midnight, and only naps a total of an hour and a half? Very abnormal.

    The majority of babies sleep an average of 16 hours per day; usually 8 during the day and 8 at night. So anything from 14-18 hours of sleep would be considered typical. If he fits in those ranges and his doc is fine with it, it sounds like everything is good.

    I am curious, though, if he isn't over tired from you waking him up to feed him. The more you wake a child up (i.e. shorten their naps) the less they sleep at a time. Then they completely crash and it is impossible to wake them up. If you are concerned, you might try not waking him tomorrow and seeing what he does.
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  • ericamdorrericamdorr member
    My ped told me skip the night feeding if he doesn't wake also only feed every 3-4 hours durring the day. If course LO wants to feed every 1.5-3 with the occasional 4 and rarely sleeps at night longer then 3-5 hours. He usually has a few small naps during the day then two longer ones in the evening. Mind you he is 4 weeks today and was going through a growth spurt last week. I only try and wake him to eat in the early evening hours.
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  • mauied08mauied08 member
    CelticWife said:
    Wait... He is awake from 7am to 9pm, maybe midnight, and only naps a total of an hour and a half? Very abnormal.

    The majority of babies sleep an average of 16 hours per day; usually 8 during the day and 8 at night. So anything from 14-18 hours of sleep would be considered typical. If he fits in those ranges and his doc is fine with it, it sounds like everything is good.

    I am curious, though, if he isn't over tired from you waking him up to feed him. The more you wake a child up (i.e. shorten their naps) the less they sleep at a time. Then they completely crash and it is impossible to wake them up. If you are concerned, you might try not waking him tomorrow and seeing what he does.
    well i posted this at another website and there are lots of other moms going through the same thing. one of the mom's baby started doing this at 4 weeks. i dont know if it naturally happen to their baby or not? i started waking him up every 3 hrs during the day to eat and left him alone at night then this happen
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