Sleep in the first 4 weeks?

Question

I hear some parents say their newborn feeds every 3-4 hours and can sleep in 4 hour windows at night. Is there anything you are doing to make this happen in the first month? My newborn is feeding every 1-2 hours (14 feeds per day) and has a wake window from 2-5am most nights 😩 I don’t let her sleep more than 2.5-3 hours during the day and she has a daytime wake window around 1pm also. I am hoping it gets better.

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i let my newborn sleep during the day as much as he wants, and at night he’ll sleep a stretch of 5 hours and then another stretch of 3 hours. his wake windows are 10 am and about 6 pm. i keep nap time separate in our bright living room and we have a bedtime routine. i think the routine helps! sometimes if he’s awake for a long time he gets over tired and won’t sleep though. he eats during the day every 2-3 hours

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As newborns mine woke every 2 hours. And one of them was slow at gaining weight so I had to wake him every 2 hours regardless. Having day and night swapped is common too, they’re brand new to the world and have no idea what the heck night and day are. I tried to keep the lights low, my voice quiet, and very minimal interaction during the night.

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Nope, it just depends a lot on the kid.
My first woke up often even despite being formula fed. She overate actually. So we had to stay up and wait to space out feedings.
This time I have a child that sleeps a lot better. But she usually still woke up every 2-3 hours..

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My babies never slept that long that early on. It wasn’t until closer to 2 months that my babies went 3-4 hour stretches. My first woke every 2 hours and my second woke every 90 mins.

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Sounds very normal. Bedshare, it will save your life in these early days. Look up the safe sleep 7. I regret so much being so tired and not letting myself sidelay nursing because I let people bully me into thinking it’s dangerous—it’s not if you do it safely. It’s perfectly natural. 
My only bedsharing regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. 
Seriously though, it is much safer for you to intentionally nurse your baby in bed while you sleep than for you to fall asleep nursing on a couch or something because your body is so tired. I even started bringing my baby to bed IN MY SLEEP because I was too tired.

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It’s really the luck if the draw. I did exactly the same thing with both my kids, 1 woke every couple of hours and was still having night feeds until nearly 11 months. The other was only feeding once a night from 3 weeks, the sleeping through from 10 weeks

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Mine were always eating every 1-2 hours

Sleep in the first 4 weeks?

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