dd is 7 weeks and her sleep is all over the place (understandably I think at this age). She sleeps between approx 12-5am, wakes up asking to be fed, and then settles back to sleep very easily. At her next wake up (around 9) and feed she goes down easily after.
After this I wake her every 3 hours and feed. The problem is she rarely goes down easily in the afternoons and becomes horribly overtired when she's been awake for over 3 or 4 hours and fights sleep with every breath even if I try to let her drop off on the boob. Evenings have become horrible.
Dr has said I should wake her to feed every 4 hours at night and 3 in the day. I already ignore the dr at night and now I'm going to ignore her in the day too and just let dd find her own rhythm. DD is feeding well and gaining weight.
She's been asleep for almost 4 hours in the day and I'm feeling horribly guilty but keep telling myself sleep breeds sleep and it will be better for her (and me) in the long run.
So sod the dr, I think she's wrong!