Too much sleep??
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Topic: Too much sleep??
Posted By: M2K
Subject: Too much sleep??
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 5:42pm
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Am starting to get wee paranoid on how much my girl is sleeping!
she has been asleep for almost 6 hours now, she was up most of the morning but I had to wake her. Im finding it hard to feed her, she will doze during feeds so I have to keep stimulating her to keep her awake. Once awake she is alert and quite calm, rarely cries. Im wondering if maybe she has just day/night back to front or if there might be more too it? Does anyone else have this with their wee one, Ive only noticed most newborns being up every 2 hours or so and hard to settle... ------------- 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 5:54pm
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Hmmm, you're right, she has no idea what day/night are yet, and I think you have to trust your instinct. I had to play with my daughter's feet during feeds sometimes, she'd just get so dozey and milk-drunk that she'd stop sucking. Don't worry about how much sleep she has right now, give it 24 hours. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 6:06pm
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I wouldn't worry too much.. enjoy it! Novella was much the same, very happy and content, rarely cried and slept for long periods - contact your MW if she carries on like this and isn't feeding much, but yes some babies can sleep long stretches like that.. I remember freaking because in that first week she was sleeping 5-6hr stretches at times.
And with the day/night thing - all babies dunno what thats about 
And my baby has never fed for long periods (I thought there may be something wrong because she never fed for longer than 10minutes, usually more a few minutes at a time) OK, enough rambling - enjoy her Jolene, I'm really happy for you (geez, I haven't even met you IRL   )
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Posted By: MrsH
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 7:21pm
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She doesn't have jaundice does she? My bubs had jaundice for about a week or two after he was born and I was told that he was sleepy because he was jaundice. The best thing for it was to flush it out by getting as much food into him as possible (and lay him in the daylight) but it was a silly cycle.
ETA: so we had to wake him three hourly to get that food in. He kept falling asleep and only feeding for about 5 - 10 minutes so I had to keep him awake and feeding with skin2skin, tickling feet/face to stimulate that rooting reflex and cool flannel dabbed on forehead from time to time. Not sure if it will help but there you have it. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 8:20pm
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I wouldn't worry, If I remember some days they feed loads and then they can be really sleepy for a day or two, I think its just the way they grow. She'll get weighed often so no need to worrk unless she isn't gaining and I agree with the others enjoy, the long sleeping bit just doesn't last long. Oh my only other question is does she sleep ok at night, DS in the first few days slept for hours in the day and then up hourly at night, so we had to keep waking him to switch his day night round. |
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 8:20pm
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Arianne did have the odd time where I had to keep waking her and she was a good one for falling asleep on the boob all the time.
It will take a while for babies to tell the difference between day and night. Maybe getting her checked out for jaundice isnt a bad idea. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: ShellandBella
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 8:25pm
She will figure it out, just give it time. Ben was slightly prem, so all he did was feed and sleep basically! Felt like that for about 6 weeks before I could really get him into a 'routine' as such and then by about 12 weeks, he seemed to finally do his longer stretches of sleep at night. Seemed like forever at the time, but he did get there  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 9:47pm
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She did have slight jaundice but not so bad now, and she did lose a bit of weight while waiting for milk to come through but she was weighed this morning and has put some on since she was last weighed....
She slept from bout 8pm last night til 3am this morning, I had to wake her up, she power fed on-off til almost 6am (was alert and wide awake), and I woke her again at 9am and but she didn't have much to eat, went back to sleep at 12noon and has pretty much been alseep since (we woke her up to feed and bath, she was awake for bath) but she was straight back to sleep! When we try wake her food she is unresponsive and nothing is waking her up... but will see how she goes this morning, she might wake up and power feed again... perhaps she is one fully content bubba alright!! -------------
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