Sleep

My girl you are so lucky mine wakes up only at night and and 6 days old with a c section

I think it depends if he’s back up to his birthweight yet or not- if he is then midwives would say to leave him and enjoy the sleep! X

Yeah he actually didn’t lose any weight post birth he gained it ! But thank you that reassuring x

My son is the same, I panicked and went to my midwife and a breast feeding group- they all said that if he is having plenty of dirty and wet nappies and gaining weight then don’t panic about waking him. My son has incredibly long feeds first thing in the morning and his last one of the day too which I think helps him sleep through most of the night :) (I acknowledge that this is incredibly lucky!)

As nice as it is to have the sleep, they can’t stabilise their blood sugar at this age so need regular feeds at least every 3/4 hours. Baby may be jaundiced too which contributes to sleepiness. My baby is also 10 days old and was in the same boat. Her jaundice levels were very high on day 5, and then midwife told me to feed every 3 hours. Jaundice went right down but still have to do the 3 hour feeds for now. She would happily sleep for 5 hours. I have to strip her down and change her halfway through to wake her x