Sleep

A question... Sophia is sleepin A LOT. Slept for 14 hours last night, one hour awake then two hours down, an hour awake and 2 1/2 hrs and counting.....She is still asleep and I have tried waking her gently...she will stir and stretch then settle down to sleep again.   She has done this every day for the last week. Should I not look a gift horse in the mouth? Can a baby have too much sleep? An I stressing over nothing? Opinions and views welcome

Thanks..I thought a growth spurt also but they don't last for over a week do they? My Plunket nurse told me that second time mums do not get as much time as new born mums do so I am reluctant to even phone them   She is happy most of the time but others she is asleep by the time I burp her. She has lots of wet nappies bu they are rather smelly and yellow. After her three hour sleep this pm she has been happy to be up for and hour and a half...talking and playing....maybe I am over thinking it.

I know what you mean with the yellow stinky mcn's...i have just stripped my old Fuzzi inserts from my first born so they will be ready when number two fits them.

Sophie is a sleepy one too - she was not too good at handling more that 70 mins awake at that age.

to your plunket nurse - how rude. I have spoken to plunket line a LOT more since Sophie was born. In fact I never called them until AFTER Sophie was born .

It's just that Plunket don't get as much funding for second time mums, so you don't get as many plunket visits. It's not that they think you don't deserve as much time, just a funding thing....

If you are worried I would do as the others suggest & ring healthline & speak to a wellchild nurse.

It means that we second time mums do not get as many visits due to funding....but Rose did say that if I have any worries to phone the parents centre. i guess I have been there before and more time should be spent on first time mums but it does not make thing any easier.
I am just accepting the fact that she is going through a huge change ie sleeping through the night and her feeds and sleeping routine have all changed. She was a bit better today so I will plod along and if things get worse I will phone the parents centre or health line.
Cheers guys, I realise some parents would be thinking I am crazy to worry about too much sleep when they can barley get their children to sleep an hour at a time...but I think that it is the quiet onse you need to watch.

Yeah...I do not know if things have changed but with Lachie I was allowed to pop in and weigh him if i wanted to when i wanted to (in West Auckland) Now when I suggestd going in a weighing her if i was worried she said no for the above reasons. Is there a difference between AKL and CHCH funding?