Newborn sleep - is it definitely all gonna change?

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My EBF newborn (8 days old) touch wood is so far settling really well. She will be put down in her next to me and doesn’t cry if she is hungry, will just sort of snuffle about. She goes 3 hours between feeds reliably all day and night and only feeds for about 10 minutes each time. She does cluster feed in the evenings 7-12 ish and feeds on the hour at this time.

Someone said to me yesterday that we should make the most of it now because she will become less sleepy and then we’ll know about it? Is this 100% the case? I understand there will be bad nights and sleep regressions but if this is her temperament now, how likely is it that it’ll at for the most part stay?

Thank you :)

My DD slept through from 21 days old and we got plenty of sleep. Apart from regressions she never changed until she was 4 years old and now she gets up at about 1 and then again at 5 most nights.
My DS never slept through and still doesn't at 2 and a half.
So it's anyone's guess what will happen.

Who knows! My eldest fed every 3 hours on the dot and slept pretty much continuously in between, happily in his cot. As he got older he became more awake between feeds but stuck in the same routine. By 10 weeks he dropped his overnight feeds and would sleep through until morning after a dream feed at 11pm. He had a big regression at a year old but no others. My youngest was entirely different, fed randomly and frequently, slept poorly, didn't like being put down etc.

My newborn didn't cry at all really for the first month. She's 6 weeks today and has now she's found her lungs and does long stretches awake at night where she'll cry loudly unless I'm rocking her.

I'm hoping it's a phase and she'll be back to her previously calm self soon!

My DD was sleeping reliably through the night (7-7) at 6 weeks. Everyone gave us the 'warnings' re sleep regression but she never changed. Well, only to extend the sleep and before long she was doing 7-9! She also always had 2 hour naps. And if I had to wake her early for any reason she'd tag that missed sleep onto her nap! She's 12 now and still loves her sleep. Some babies are just natural sleepers. I thought I was a brilliant mum but it's just the luck of the draw really! DC 2 and 3 were much more normal in sleep and followed the usual regressions etc but even then they were both sleeping through well before a year. Hopefully you are one of the lucky ones like me 😊

I think it will probably change. And then change again. And then again.

With babies everything is just a phase. Her sleep might get dramatically worse, but that will also almost certainly be short lived before it changes again.

This is my experience too, they change so regularly that just as you get used to what's normal it changes, just to keep you on your toes.

Having said that, DD was a decent sleeper. From only a few days old she slept in two 4 hour shifts overnight, and aside from the odd phase of over-tiredness, teething, illness etc. she remains a good sleeper at 8 years old.

But what you consider to be "good" might change, eg DD will often still wake up at 4am and come for a cuddle before going back to her bed. But it's kinda fine as she'll happily sleep until 8.30am without an alarm.