How long to get to sleep?

Question

Baby is three week old today. I feel like it takes us 3-4 hours to get to sleep. This is wake up, eating, diaper, very little playtime, eating again and sleeping. Is this normal? I know there is no schedule now but not sure what to do to make things easier. He’s breastfed

Answer

Unfortunately there is no schedule when they’re this young. Try and set habits of eat, awake, sleep. Every baby is different and has different needs. For mine, I feed her every 3 hours during the day unless she’s hungry sooner and at night I let her tell me when she needs to eat.

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Most 3 week olds aren’t up for 3-4 hours at this point. Most 3 weeks olds are napping every 1-1.5 hours.  
3-4 hours seems really long to me at this point.

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Sounds normal! It’s very repetitive in the beginning. Eat, sleep, poop. Not much else going on. It gets better once they start actually interacting. I think around 12 weeks old I noticed a shift. Just feed that baby whenever they want since you are breastfeeding, it helps your supply.

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I felt like my baby was always up forever. Unlike other babies who always seemed to be sleeping. It meant I was exhausted and didn’t have enough time to fit in everything I needed while he snoozed for his 40 minutes and then we started all over. So yes while other babies were only awake for an hour or 2 at most mine was up for 3-4.
We started a sleep schedule around 8 weeks because he was napping late in the evenings, so I started waking him from his naps so that we could have a nighttime routine around the same time.

How long to get to sleep?

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