Sleepy Baby - suggestions please

[Miss E]

My DS was very sleepy in those first couple of weeks due to a CS and jaundice. He was also a little slow to gain weight so to stop him drifting off LC advised us to:
• strip him down to singlet and nappy for feeds
• tickle his feet
• use a cool facewasher on his forehead or parts of his body (this felt really mean when you were doing it)
• mess up his hair (not stroke it) but twist and turn it
• when he fell asleep, take him off and change his nappy.
• not let him go more than 3 hours without a feed, day or night - this meant waking him.

It was really hard, but we only had to do it for a few weeks until he got bigger and stronger and wasn't so sleepy.

[skybie]

My DS was very sleepy in those first couple of weeks due to a CS and jaundice. He was also a little slow to gain weight so to stop him drifting off LC advised us to:
• strip him down to singlet and nappy for feeds
• tickle his feet
• use a cool facewasher on his forehead or parts of his body (this felt really mean when you were doing it)
• mess up his hair (not stroke it) but twist and turn it
• when he fell asleep, take him off and change his nappy.
• not let him go more than 3 hours without a feed, day or night - this meant waking him.

It was really hard, but we only had to do it for a few weeks until he got bigger and stronger and wasn't so sleepy.

This is what we did with DD2, she was born at 36 weeks and was a super sleepy baby

[starangelk]

Thanks so much everyone! He's not espy because he's little, he was 4.2kg so a big of a shopper and at 12 days was 300gms over birth weight....he's just sleepy at night when feeding. I did the breast compressions last night Nd it worked fabulously! He did 4 hour stretches and I was thrilled. He also fed 2 hourly from 12pm.