Hello, My DD#1 is 11 weeks old and I am worried that she is sleeping too much.
My DD#1 seems to spend a lot of the day asleep. She always has done - I had to wake her up to feed her when she was newborn - but I figured she'd be awake a bit more by now and I'm worried something isn't right.
Her normal rhythm is to nap between 8.30-10am, then to nap from 11am until 1.30pm. In the afternoon she might take another 45 min nap around 3.30pm, then she sleeps from 6-8pm when we wake her up for a bath, cuddle with Dad and final feed, then she sleeps 9pm-3.30/4am, and 4.30-7am. I haven't tried to put her on a routine or schedule, this is what she wants to do.
When she is awake she is generally smiley and alert, although she does seem to tire of activities like play gym / toys / stimulation quite quickly and if she's been awake for more than two hours she is definitely overtired and gets cranky. I'm not sure that she's asleep for the whole time of her naps - a few times i have popped into the bedroom to get something and she's been lying in the Moses Basket awake looking around or sucking her thumb - but because she's quite content and not made a noise or cried I haven't heard her on the monitor. So I think she does stir and wake up sometimes, and then goes back to sleep.
Does this sound ok or might there be an underlying issue that is making her sleepy? She seems to sleep a lot more than my friends's babies - is she just a sleepy baby? I am going to see the HV on Tuesday so will mention it but I'm guessing she will laugh at me...
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Is my 11 week old sleeping too much?
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Beans1977 · 07/12/2012 11:53
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