Newborn Daytime Naps

I have a little girl (5 weeks old) and am just wondering how long everyone let’s their babies sleep for during the day. My daughter will quite happily sleep for 3-4 hours sometimes. Should I be waking her up earlier so that she’s awake for longer during the day? She is currently sleeping 4-6 hour stretches at night. I would love to know other mums sleep experiences and any advice 💖

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My advice would be not to stress about baby sleep, sounds like you’re doing a great job and if you’re happy with how it’s going then all good. Sounds good to me the sleep if it isn’t broke don’t try fix it 😂.

I stressed about my first borns sleep so much wake windows and all of that and now wish I hadn’t stressed as much. Xx

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It sounds like you have it pretty good now! My daughter is also 5 weeks and she wakes up every 3 hours at night and sleeps for 1-2 hours naps during the day xx Do you mind if I ask if she’s a bottle or breastfed - if bottle-fed how many ounces does she have? Xx

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I have definitely been worrying for nothing! I think myself and my partner are desperate for a full nights sleep so overthinking mamma here is trying to come up with possible solutions instead of accepting that she’ll sleep through when she’s ready 🤦🏻‍♀️

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We bottle feed 🙂 Tried breastfeeding from birth but she was premature and wouldn’t latch onto me no matter how hard I tried. She currently has 3-4 ounces every 3 ish hours during the day and 4 ish hours during the night. But this might be a little different compared to full term babies I’m not sure. What does your little one take? Xx

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same as me, I couldn’t get her to latch very well. We are on 5 ounces every 3 hours!! Xx

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How much did your little one weigh at birth? My daughter was born 4 weeks early and weighed 6 pound 2 Xx

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We had a big baby, induced at 39 weeks at 9lb 2 xx

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My little girl is 3 weeks old, and I just let her sleep when she needs to. She goes 3-4 hours, but I will wake her during the day around the 4 hour mark to feed her. During the night, I'll leave her however long she wants. The longest she's gone is 5 hours.

Also she was 5 days late and currently had anywhere from 2-4oz every 3-4 hours.

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That’s amazing at 3 weeks old! How much did she weigh at birth if you don’t mind me asking? Do you breast or formula feed?

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Wow well done you! How are you finding the postpartum period? Xx

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@Tammy Litherland she was 8.3lbs when she was born, and she is formula fed.

She does have 2-3 hour wake windows, but honestly every day is different.

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My daughters wake windows are constantly changing. Sometimes she will literally be awake long enough to have her bottle and then she’ll go straight back to sleep whilst other times she can be awake for 90 minutes.

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@Tammy Litherland Mine is the same, yesterday she slept pretty much the entire day but today she had a 4 hour wake window 😂

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My daughter turned 6 weeks today and has 3-4 hours naps between feeds during the day and sleeping 4-5 hours at night but when she gets up during the night she's wide awake until her next feed

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Oh bless you! I’m really lucky in that when my daughter wakes up for a feed in the night she goes straight back to sleep once she’s finished. Hopefully this continues 😂 I already feel sleep deprived!

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