My DD is 6 days old, and for the last 3 days she's cluster fed from about 8.30pm until 4.30am, at which point she's finally gone down to sleep for 3 hours or so. She's sleeping a lot in the day, and I don't know whether to try and just ride it out and hope it will improve, or to try and gently nudge her towards being more awake during the day so we get at least some sleep at night.
At the moment during the day she's downstairs with us in a well lit room, tv or music on, plenty of noise and activity, not trying to keep things especially quiet etc, and she goes in a moses basket when she sleeps during the day time. During the night she gets put down into a small rocking crib, but doesn't sleep for more than about 45 minutes at a time, and often if she falls asleep on the breast, I put her down and she's awake and rooting 20 minutes later, this goes on literally from about now until 4.30am.
I know it's very early days, and I'm reluctant to try and keep a tiny baby awake during the day, but we have a toddler too, who is up at 6.30 most days, so I'm not getting a great deal of sleep during the day and the nights are exhausting me. Plus my nipples are very tender. My DS also cluster fed, so this isn't a complete shock, but he cluster fed much earlier in the evening, so by midnight or so he was going down for 2-3 hours, and then having a good feed and going back down again. I'm starting to dread night time with DD. Anyone have any advice or experienced this? Please tell me it gets better?