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• 4 days ago
Is this growth spurt behavior?
LO (8wks) went to sleep last night at 7:30, woke up at 4 to eat, then fell asleep again at 5 and woke up again around 8 to eat. He's been sleeping a bit longer at night but this was unprecedented.
Is it growth spurt behavior or is he actually just sleeping this much? If your child slept a lot during their growth spurt, what is normal? He's even wanting to fall asleep at the breast even though I'm trying to keep him awake. When I stop he's dozing again.
I'm not too worried bc he woke up alert and awake to eat both times. I'm just confused lol
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4 days ago
@Allie I'm going to keep waking him to eat every 2-3 hrs today but he was literally awake to eat and play for a little over half an hour before he started getting sleepy again. He had no problem going down for a nap 😴😴😴 he was so awake yesterday too!
4 days ago
Our 8 week old has done similar, she's had days where she'll gladly sleep for longer hours, she'd sleep for 3+hour naps during the day if we let her. Everything I've read is that it's a developmental leap, it's normal, and as long as they're eating it's OK if they want to keep sleeping 😴
@Carleen yep thats what we did too! Wake up and eat babeh! Then she'd be awake for a half hour tops and sleep again 😂 honestly it's kind of a nice break...