Sleeping too much?? Help!
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Topic: Sleeping too much?? Help!
Posted By: FionaS
Subject: Sleeping too much?? Help!
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 11:59am
Don't laugh 
Ashley is 6.5 weeks. All she does is eat and sleep! It has been this way for a week but seems more pronounced for the last 2 days. She feeds 3.5 to 4 hourly through the day and sleeps in between. She doesn't want any awake time other than eating. If I try to do anything else with her she just squirms and wants to go back to bed. She didn't cry once yesterday - just said "ah-goo" to toys before going to sleep and "eh" when she woke. She hasn't been playing or smiling like usual. However, she doesn't seem sick, has good colour etc. She slept 11 hours last night and as of now (midday) has only been up for a total of 1.5 hours (3 feeds since 5.50am). Plunket thinks she needs to see a doc. I'm home with a really bad migraine....What do you think? ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
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Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 12:11pm
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Personally I remember being worried about the exact same thing when my two were the same age. I think most babies do this in the early weeks. Maybe a growth spurt is tiring her out.
However if Plunket are suggesting a doctor check her out I would absolutly do it just to be on the safe side. Even though I think Plunket are full of C$%P 80% of the time lol Still better to be safe than sorry. -------------  
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 12:48pm
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i wonder if you have a migraine from overthinking this fiona... sounds normal to me - and did plunket say why take her to a doc. or were they just saying what they think you wanted to hear?! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 1:06pm
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I'm not worried Bizzy but they were alarmed as she isn't responsive when awake. I love it sleep LOL/ ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 3:03pm
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I was worried about keira when she was a few weeks old, I was worried she was sleeping too much as she wouldn''t feed without falling asleep and was all floppy and non responsive when trying to wake her, we changed her, bathed her, poked her, blew in her face everything haha... we took her to the doctor and guess who woke up happy and fully alert??? I was told to enjoy it before she changed... ------------- 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 5:56pm
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Yeap we did as told and took her (felt stupid doing so) and sure enough, since then she has been awake, crying etc etc. LOL - she didn't cry for 2 days but the moment we go to the doc wham - crying, ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: crafty1
Date Posted: 22 September 2009 at 6:13pm
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My boy was always very sleepy from birth. The first 6 weeks all the pics of him are asleep! And when he went through growth spurts he never got hungry like other babies, just slept more. I wouldn't worry too much, but when someone tells you to take them you really feel you have to. Which sucks!
Hope you get some more sleep soon! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 24 September 2009 at 10:31am
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Turns out the sleepy quiet baby was a sick baby. She is covered in hundreds of tiny red dots - a post viral rash :( She is back to her usual self now though thankfully. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: queenb
Date Posted: 25 September 2009 at 7:53am
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that's so good you took her to the docs! Was watching this thread, as I thought it wasn't a good thing to be so unresponsive while awake. Great that she's back to her normal self!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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