Random Sleeping

I have the same problem. One day she'll sleep all day, she'll feed then fall straight back asleep again and there's no waking her up. Then other days she's awake for the whole day. Very erratic. Other days she's feeding the whole day.

I'm hoping it gets better over time, I'm a routine person!!

I have a gentle suggestion to make, and that is to try and not see it as a "problem"... babies don't come with pre-programmed sleep routines and so it is pretty normal for them to be all over the place, especially in the first three months.

The only thing I really did to try and influence things was wake DD2 in the day if it waslooking like more than three hours asleep, and let her go as long as she wants at night.

For about six weeks she also refused to sleep in a bed (any bed!) so I just put her in a sling and carried on, as it meant she'd get more than 10 mins sleep and I could still get things done.

Currently she likes to have one really big day sleep, one shorter one, and one catnap... but there isn't usually much rhyme or reason as to when she'll actually have them LOL There are still some days when she only has 40 min naps all day (one sleep cycle), like today, and she is 5 months now - still totally normal behavior and we just have to roll with it.