How long does your newborn stay awake?

Curious as to how long newborns stay awake between feeds? Have a three week old. By the time we have done nappy and feed she is ready to sleep again, so don’t get much play time! Is this normal?

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Newborns sleep, eat, poop and pee. Totally normal mama 💕

Thank you! 💕 from how many weeks should I expect her to have longer wake windows?

I have a 2 week old and sometimes she doesn’t stay awake long enough for nappy and feeding, so not long at all, maybe 20 minutes some times, so ends up dream feeding a lot 🥲

From memory it was around 3-4 weeks that she started to stay awake for maybe like 10 minutes after a feed and change

This was ours for the first two weeks then in his third week he decided he didn't like sleep anymore and was staying awake for 3-5 hours at a time!

He screamed this whole time though so we couldn't do any playtime 😫

We're coming out the other side of that now thank goodness and he's back to being awake for about half an hour between naps x

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