To worry my baby sleeps TOO much...

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Yes ok, I am.
But she sleeps 9pm to 10am with 2 or 3 wakes for a feed
Then awake until 1pm. Then asleep until 4, feed, back to sleep until 7, feed. Either cries for 2 hours or goes back to sleep.
Should I be worried?
The morning awake time is pretty alert fun time.
She only sleeps if it's quite quiet but she is grumpy as hell if she gets woken when she wants to sleep.
Dr visit? Or am j being stupid
She's 2 months old. And not by first. He older sister didn't sleep at all!

My first DD used to sleep all the time. I'd put her down for a nap and have to wake her up hours later to feed her as she'd just stay asleep otherwise. I remember thinking "this is easy!" Then I had my second DD and she didn't know what sleep was. She would nap for 10 mins and then be wide awake again. If I'd had DD2 first I would have stopped at one. DD1 will be 21 in a few weeks and is still a sleepy head.

DD1 slept for 20min stretches. I remember laughing at the "sleep when baby sleeps" advice because I'd put her down, lie on sofa and get woken up before I'd properly fallen asleep.
She's so grumpy if we wake her so I'm not. But it's got to backfire at some point right?

Same boat here! DS1 never slept (still not great at it). DS2 is 11 weeks old and is an absolute dream- he sleeps loads and lovely long stints at night! I say enjoy it and make the most of it because lots of my friends had good sleepers then hit the 4 month regression and it all went out the window (regressions weren't really a thing with DS1 because he didn't sleep anyway).

Thanks. Ok will stop worrying and enjoy the breaks!
I know this sounded like a stealth boast... but the midwives and HV were all "oh it's your second. You know all this already" but she's totally different to DD1. Nothing is the same!

Both mine slept more than that at 2 months old. They would have sneaked in another nap between 10am and 1pm tbh.

Hi, my 3rd child was like this. I was worried because he slept for 20hrs a day as a newborn. He was then diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. He is now 11 yrs old, an energetic, sensitive, intelligent boy. There is no harm in asking your health visitor. Hopefully you can then just enjoy it.

Sounds like DS2, he would sleep and eat and sleep and eat, he was a dream baby until about 4 months.
It would make DS1's day when he would actually see his eyes open!

My dd was like that. At about 10 months she'd go to bed at 7pm & not wake until 9-10am.

Then she would sleep after lunch about 1-3pm.

Then back to bed at 7pm.

I remember people commenting on the amount she slept but she was such a happy delightful baby & the same all through toddlerhood.

She still napped until she about 3 1/2 years.

She's almost 11 now & went through a phase of struggling to get to sleep around age 7/8 years & I would say she's a bit of a nightowl now but just reads if she can't sleep.

My dd2 is 7 weeks and I feel like she's never awake. She dropped her night feed at 3 weeks. So differenf to her big sister

My eldest barely ever slept and when he did it was for 20-30 minutes at a time.

My youngest slept constantly until 12 weeks. I remember being really worried about her as until about 8 weeks she was probably only awake for 2 hours a day in total. She is now 9 months old and doesn’t quite sleep as much!

My third was like this. The only concern would be is she getting enough feeds? My son was so lazy that he wouldn’t wake to feed and was losing weight so we had to set alarms and wake him every two hours. If she is feeding well and gaining weight as she should then I wouldn’t worry.

I have one of these. She sleeps well over 12 hours at night with no feeds and then naps for a couple of hours at a time for 3
naps during the day. It really is novel to have her awake! Also not a stealth boast as dd1 doesnt sleep and I'm up 2 or 3 times night with her (she's 2.5 and has always been a poor sleeper!).
It really cant last forever so am enjoying it whilst it does!!

Mine could only handle 45 min to an hour of awake time at that age and did 12 hours straight though at night. I think second children just seem to be asleep all the time
Because they’re easy in comparison to the older one. My first never napped as much in the day.

Sounds like my ds at 2 months he slept for 18-20 hours a day. At almost 6 months he now does 8pm-5.30/5.45am feeds and goes back down until 9, then he'll nap again 12-1pm have another 45 minutes at about half 4 and then he's awake until 8pm again.
Although he has a stinking cold atm so is sleeping alot and he's dropped about 300ml of daily feed - saw ooo GP today as he was sick after a feed with about 3 minutes solid coughing and they're not concerned at all.

Enjoy sleeping!!!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Unless weight gain is an issue, I'd never wake a 2 month old to feed. Make the most of it, it's likely to change once the 4 month sleep regression hits.

Dd was like this - an absolute angel baby. We joke that she slept for her 1st year. Older Ds barely noticed she was born she was always happy and a doddle. Now she's 13 and still loves her bed and is still lovely, happy and bright.

Your daughter sounds fine to me, enjoy it while it lasts!

Both mine were amazing sleepers. It used to make me laugh when parents of non-sleeping babies would go on about how intelligent their offspring must be because they were awake and learning. Yeah, doesn’t work like that though.. they were just jealous of my lie-ins and relaxed babies.

DD slept for hours on end. She definitely slept a lot at 2 months as I remember seeing a friend at 12 weeks and DD was still sleeping for up to 20hrs a day.

What was the birth like? I always put DDs sleep down to traumatic birth for us both. Mixed in with the fact that she never woke me when I was pregnant with her meant she was a dream sleeper. She is still relatively good at 3.

Your DD will wake up more soon, she’s still really weenie at this point and literally everything is new to them and quite an overload on the senses so it makes sense that they sleep a lot

I remember crying at one point because I was so concerned by the amount of sleep (I think I even booked an appointment with the GP about it). I have a photo taken of her at a few months old captioned ‘the rarely seen awake troll-baby’

Our daughter slept from 1pm till 7/8am with no naps in morning - woke for feeds but that was it, every 3/4 hours. The amount of people telling me we were doing it all wrong and should wake her up!!!! As if. She was thriving. Sleep is as good as good for recuperation and development as food. I would just say high 5 and enjoy it 🤪

No, DS slept the first 4 months of his life away! He was only really awake for an hour in the morning and 2 in the evening!
I asked the doctor if it was ok as my friends babies weren't like that, she laughed and said it's completely normal, adding that it wouldn't last.. it didn't!
Enjoy it!

My 1st was like this. Questions to ask are is she 'thriving' that is is she putting on sufficient weight, following a line on the growth charts even if this is at a lower point than average. When shes awake is she alert, interested in surroundings, sounds etc. Is she feeding regularly, sufficiently and retaining her feed - I.e. not chucking most of it up.

If shes doing those things then I wouldn't worry. If she isnt get her checked by gp or health visitor asap.

My first was an amazing sleeper, loved his naps so much he had to be weaned off his afternoon one (which was three hours long) to start school.

I wouldn't worry.

Birth was (relatively!) Easy and quick.

She is putting on loads of weight. She's huge in fact. EBF
But she does have bad reflux and wind. So if she's awake after a feed she's pretty unhappy. Her morning happy times are nice.
She's had some diarrhoea recently. Getting results for that tomorrow hopefully.
DD1 does get annoyed that she doesn't seem to be awake enough! She wants to play with her..