I'm bumping this up because we are on the 3rd day of this schedule and I'm starting to worry that something is wrong for him to want to sleep so much. When he is awake he is very happy and alert and doing everything he should be, but since 7pm last night he's been asleep except for an 11pm feed, a 6:45am feed and 8-8:45am this morning when woke for a nappy change, short play and feed and as usual he started rubbing his eyes and getting cranky so I put him down and without a fuss he went down and it's coming up on 2 hours for this nap. Thats about an hour thirty of up time in a 16 hour period!!! and most of those ups were purely for feeding. I suspect he'll get up soon, have at least an hours play (hopefully a bit more) and want to go back down. That's a lot of sleep! is that OK/normal/cause for concern???
DD was born 2 days before your little bubba. And she was 6 weeks early.
She's usually only up for a total of an hour with a 2 1/2 - 3 hour sleep in between. I wake her from her sleep.
Just because he's making noise doesn't mean he's not tired. Put him to bed, if you believe he's tired, and let him just complain. Only pick him up if he's distressed.
DD is on a routine of -- Up for as long as she wants, which is 60 minutes. Maybe 90mins at the most. Put to bed, and she self settles. It can take up to half an hour for her to put herself to sleep.
And then I wake her from her sleep after 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
It may just be a phase he's going through. Hopefully someone else can offer some more advice.
Good luck.
Could it be a Wonder Week/ growth spurt and he just needs more sleep atm? It took DS until about 8 months before he could go more than 1 1/2 hours without a morning nap. I'd be going by his tired signs rather than the clock.
If he's getting plenty of milk, and happy and alert when awake, then he's probably fine. (and he sounds like he's fine!) I'd make the most of the sleep, personally Some babies really do sleep a LOT (unfortunately some hardly sleep at all)
Definitely just folow his tired signs, he knows best when he's tired and sounds like he's a very good little sleeper.
My DS used to do the same weird neck angle thing! Really freaky, but he seemed completely fine. Some day we'd wake up and he'd have managed to squirm across the basinette with his head tilted way back, totally asleep and smiling ocassionally. We'd always put him back straight though, lol.
As for the sleep schedule, it sounds fine, I find DS is sleepier in the morning than the afternoon, so he gets put back to bed an hour after he's woken up. For a baby that can go 3 1/2 hours before tired signs show up, that's pretty early. I'd love my DS to sleep a bit more!
Thanks everyone - I feel a bit better. I did call the MCHN nurse as well and she basically said the same - that, he sounds fine (and that I'm lucky - and to enjoy it while it lasts). I do tend to be a worrier!
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Some babies really do sleep a LOT (unfortunately some hardly sleep at all)
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