How are your babies sleeping?

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I’d love to hear what your day, and night looks like!
Sophie was a great sleeper at the start. She was a bit difficult to get to sleep but would then have 2-3 hour naps in her bassinet.
Now at 4 weeks she will only sleep on me, and wakes if I put her down, so we either have mum stuck on the couch or an overtired baby! 
At night she often wakes every two hours and in the evening she struggles to go to sleep despite being fed, rocked etc 
What are your babies doing?

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She sleeps a couple of times a day wherever 😂 and gets up to eat about every 2 hours from 7pm-7am. I'm also chasing a toddler so I'm not exactly tracking her sleep patterns at the moment, but your baby's sleep sounds pretty typical!

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My daughter takes about 3 naps during the day, usually 1.5-2 hours each. Then she sleeps from 7:30-7:00. I wake her at 9:30 to nurse before I go to bed, then she wakes around 2 or 3 and again around 5 to eat. She goes right back to sleep. We are currently bedsharing because that’s all that works right now.

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Update: we rented a Snoo and safe sleeps so well at night now! The first night she slept 6 hours straight! Last night she slept 7pm-7am with only one feed at midnight! She was waking at least 3 times a night before that.. I’ve been feeding her more often during the day so she doesn’t need it at night too. Day sleep she still wants me to hold her but I’m working on that!

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Taking cara babies has a newborn class that will help so much!! We took her abcs of sleep when our last son was 5 months and decided to do the newborn one with this one. Sooooo worth it. Sleep is important for baby and parents!

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Same. My three week old will only sleep in my arms or on my chest. He also has acid reflux and is on two medications, so he doesn’t like to be flat on his back. It has been really hard but I keep telling myself it will get better 😩

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That’s very normal- so many babies sleep well the first 2 weeks (so much that you have to wake to feed) and then start struggling around week 3-4.
We’re 5 weeks on Friday and she’s currently usually sleeping around 4 hours at the beginning of the night, feeding, sleeping another 2 hours, feeding, then waking each hour. During the day it’s often hard to get her down for naps. Ideally she has 3 naps but often it’s 2. She usually has one long nap in the middle of the day (around 4 hours) and the other naps tend to be catnaps.

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My baby is 5 weeks old and the past week had been a bit worse. Harder to put her sleep. We start trying to out her down at 7-8pm and it takes cluster feeding and lots of rocking to get h down. But he will keep waking up once I lay him down. By about 12 am he is ready to sleep and then will sleep 3-4 hours. Then do another 3 hr stretch before waking up for the day. He naps well during the day if i don't miss his tired cues.

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Two week old here. He sleeps great during the day so much so that I struggle to keep him awake between naps/feeds. I put him down for the night around 7pm right before my toddler, and then I wake him and nurse before I go to bed about 9pm. He wakes every 2-3 hours until about 4am and then it's every hour.

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I’m in the same boat as you with my almost 5 week old. It’s normal. My baby has also been really gassy so she wants us to hold her for comfort.

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My daughter is a week old and she refuses to sleep during the day unless being held. At night she will sleep all through it if she could but I wake her to get her fed then she goes right back to sleep with no issue. I made sure to put in a routine from day one with her so maybe she is picking up on that, I don’t know but I hope it continues.

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