My 9 day old baby seems to sleep constantly. He only has a few alert periods a day and they're not very long. Just seems to hate waking up! He was born via elective c section at 37+4 due to my placenta starting to fail so not sure if it is just because he was a little early.
He was a little jaundiced but that seems to have resolved. He's now back over his birthweight, breastfeeding well every 2-3 hours at least (often less), including at night, plenty of wet and dirty nappies. So all good signs but I don't remember my first baby sleeping anywhere near this much. Today he woke at 6, fed, back to sleep til 8.30, fed, nappy change, alert for about 15 mins and then back to sleep til 10. Since then he's pretty much been totally asleep except for his feeds and nappy changes.
HV says normal but I just don't remember my eldest sleeping like this!