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ahhhh.... help me!! baby sleeps to much during the day!
hey ladies!! Cohen is 1 week old today... i really cant believe it. where did the week go? lol
ive been having a lot of trouble with cohens sleeping habits, i know that it is still very early but i was wondering if there was something i could do. he sleeps almost all day long. he sleeps so soundly he's like a rag doll and no amount of noise or light will wake him. he wakes up on his own about every 2-3 hours, and he gnaws on his hand like hes starving. so i of course feed him (about 2 ounces), burp him and change him. and he passes out again. in the middle of the night its a different story. i'll put him to sleep, and then 1-2 hours later he wakes up hungry, and only eats about an ounce. falls back to sleep... wakes up anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours later starving again. he was 10lbs 5 oz when he was born, and i was told he should be eating at least 4 ounces every 4 hours. well... some days he doesnt even come close to that, he's just too busy sleeping. he never eats any more then 2 ounces at one time.
does anyone have any tricks to help keep baby awake during the day. or to make him eat a little more at eat sitting?
ive been having a lot of trouble with cohens sleeping habits, i know that it is still very early but i was wondering if there was something i could do. he sleeps almost all day long. he sleeps so soundly he's like a rag doll and no amount of noise or light will wake him. he wakes up on his own about every 2-3 hours, and he gnaws on his hand like hes starving. so i of course feed him (about 2 ounces), burp him and change him. and he passes out again. in the middle of the night its a different story. i'll put him to sleep, and then 1-2 hours later he wakes up hungry, and only eats about an ounce. falls back to sleep... wakes up anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours later starving again. he was 10lbs 5 oz when he was born, and i was told he should be eating at least 4 ounces every 4 hours. well... some days he doesnt even come close to that, he's just too busy sleeping. he never eats any more then 2 ounces at one time.
does anyone have any tricks to help keep baby awake during the day. or to make him eat a little more at eat sitting?
thanks ladies. i was really starting to get discouraged. everything was so easy with my daughter. lol .... this is all new to me. again, i appreciate the help!
Enjoy the his sleep while you can. Babies do tend to sleep all day at first. Give him a few more weeks. His sleep patterns will eventually even out.
Newborns thrive on an eat, sleep, poop cycle. When he's closer to a month old he'll start staying awake longer!
With my children I made sure to have the house as noisy and interesting as possible during the day, that way he would be to curious to doze off. I always made sure to bang around as much as possible when doing daily chores. Id sing really loud to a loud radio, and even dance with mine.I would allow them to nap...but only for 3 hours during the day. Then at night I would have a set bedtime when everything became quiet and boring helping him fall asleep and sleep for a few hours. I had my children sleeping through the night by a month old, but I always made sure to wake up and feed them every 4 hours.
If they start dozing off, I would play with the nipple and move it around, in and out reminding them to keep sucking.
Make sure you start a routine as soon as possible. The day I got home with my new baby, was the day I started to focus on a routine. It was easier with my other pregnancies because I didnt have as many children as I do now lol. But I had my youngest son on the same routine and schedule as my oldest son, except it was off on time about 30 min to an hour, that way I could sit and eat peacefully and get a good meal before feeding baby, that way I wasn't so overwhelmed with trying to eat, feed my other son, and feed the baby all at the same time.
Find a schedule that works best for you, make day times noisy and interesting, and night times quiet and boring.
Thats what made things work so well with my children, and to this day, my kids would sleep through a nuclear bomb explosion because they got used to sleeping with a lot of noise.
I hope everything turns out okay, oh and 1 more tip! When he wakes up knawing his arm because he is hungry...don't feed him right away. Give it about 15 to 20 min or even 30 min if you can push it that long before feeding him, that way he will def. be hungry enough to eat more.
If they start dozing off, I would play with the nipple and move it around, in and out reminding them to keep sucking.
Make sure you start a routine as soon as possible. The day I got home with my new baby, was the day I started to focus on a routine. It was easier with my other pregnancies because I didnt have as many children as I do now lol. But I had my youngest son on the same routine and schedule as my oldest son, except it was off on time about 30 min to an hour, that way I could sit and eat peacefully and get a good meal before feeding baby, that way I wasn't so overwhelmed with trying to eat, feed my other son, and feed the baby all at the same time.
Find a schedule that works best for you, make day times noisy and interesting, and night times quiet and boring.
Thats what made things work so well with my children, and to this day, my kids would sleep through a nuclear bomb explosion because they got used to sleeping with a lot of noise.
I hope everything turns out okay, oh and 1 more tip! When he wakes up knawing his arm because he is hungry...don't feed him right away. Give it about 15 to 20 min or even 30 min if you can push it that long before feeding him, that way he will def. be hungry enough to eat more.
i have tried to feed him more... but he wont stay awake. during the day he is "out cold". if i can wake him... he just doses off again. he goes to the doctor tomorrow, so im definately gonna ask him about it. i just thought someone may have a technique on how to keep a baby awake so that i can try to feed him more.
Oh you know I thought of this after I posted that. When my kids were born, they were early, but I was told to put them on a feeding schedule. With my daughter it was every 3 hours she needed to be fed 3 to 4 oz, and add an oz every 2 days. With my son he, due to a bloackage in his ureter for the first two months, would only eat 2 oz every 2 hours. So they told me to go ahead and just try to go out every 4 hours 4 oz. And he eventually needed surgery at 2 months and started immediately drinking 7 oz to 9 oz every 4 hours. It was crazy! But during the day try maybe feeding a oz more when you feed him and then spread it out to 4 hours instead of the 2-3. I would ask your doctor about this first, but it may help. I hope that helps a little!
It sounds like a growth spirt. It happens when they are growing! But ofcourse for like the first three months they pretty much sleep. But they are used to the entire thing of sleeping during the day while they were in you because you were moving about, and at night be active. So it'll even out in a month or so. I'm sorry your not getting much sleep but you'll need to nap during the day. It will get better. And they do that waking up more often to eat because of growing! Congrats on the baby BTW!
it sounds very normal:-)
my son was the same way... i was told by my doctor and others they are suppose to sleep 20 hrs a day!!
my son was the same way... i was told by my doctor and others they are suppose to sleep 20 hrs a day!!
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