Newborn wont sleep please help

[Lizzyyy98]

My newborn baby is only 5 days old, he has not slept once at night since he has been born.
He will sleep all day and its impossible to keep him awake. He will wake at 1.30am and not till around 10 am the next morning. His feeds during the day are every 3 to 4 hours with either 2 or 3 ounces taking everytime, at night his feeds are quite disturbed and seems to be hungry all the time. Between 1.30 and 10.00 this morning he has done 6 poo, so I'm thinking he has diarrhoea also because he is very gassy to.
Is there anyway about this ? To even change his routine how would I start and concerning his feeds and bowel movements is 6 poop in 9 hours a lot ?

You poor thing, this must be so hard for you. You mention a bottle, is it expressed breast milk or formula? Breast fed baby poo can be after every feed- and all over the place, but I would keep an eye on dehydration- checking his fontanelle isnt sunken, that he is crying proper tears etc. As for the sleep it sounds like he has got his days and nights mixed up. Are you making day time really bright and loud and night time dark and quiet? Xx sending sympathy

It is perfectly normal for newborns not to know day from night. It takes up to 12 weeks for that to right itself.

Diarrhoea is consistency not just number. And DS had one horrendously gassy night about that age- we figured it was the end of meconium and start of proper digestion

Agree with others that they often don't know day from night at this age and it can take a while to help them sort it out. There are sone things you can do to help though.

If you have a DP/DH get them to get LO up at 7am-ish, change his nappy, change his clothes and dress him for the day whilst you snooze have a shower. Either of you feed him then take him outside, even if it's just a walk around your garden with a cuppa.

Daylight will help him to start working out the difference between day and night.

I'd also offer a feed at least every 3 hours in the day. You could change his nappy to wake him first, if he's not waking enough to feed.

My daughter is 13 days old and whilst I definitely wouldn’t say we’ve “mastered” it as she still very much has the odd day here and there where she’s up all night and asleep all day. I’ve found that a blue nightlight at night time and a white noise machine definitely helped us massively! It is so hard though in the early days and sleep deprivation is real.

Sorry, unable to offer advice regarding the poop.