When did your baby ‘wake up’?

[Olive96]

Baby G is 4 weeks old tomorrow. She’s very sleepy! We essentially work on a wake-change-feed-nap cycle with baby max 20 mins of something slightly different eg. we did a baby yoga video the other day.

does that sound typical? Should I be encouraging longer times awake? Or just wait until she’s naturally awake longer, sometimes she will lay on me with her eyes open but she’s clearly drowsy and nodding off so thus far I have let her fall asleep but I’m worried I’m missing something and should be engaging her more??

any tips welcome - and any activity ideas for those awake times ☺️ thanks!

As long as she's bright and alert at times and is following her centiles and meeting her milestones then I'd say she's fine.

What is she like of you go to a playgroup or somewhere like the library?

At 6 weeks I remember a big difference! I really liked the baby sensory cards.

Have a look at the huckleberry website to find out about wake windows for her age. Mind is about to turn 2 so i can't remember how long a 4 week old can stay awake, but to be honest I think I just let her nap as much as she wanted at that age. I didn't really get in
to paying huge attention to it until the 4 month sleep regression hit like a tonne of bricks. We got unlucky with that, mine is very sensitive to regressions, I'm not trying to be a harbinger!