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DD has been awake pretty much all day...

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misspollysdolly · 11/11/2011 21:36

...Please please tell me this is just one of those weird newborn blippy days...?!

She's 5 weeks old. Feeding well three hourly, more or less, but has hardly slept all day - a deep but brief hour or so this afternoon in the sling, but otherwise that's it...! Aaargh! She's DC4 and mine have all slept well. I'm starting to panic and obsess that maybe she will be my nemesis baby who can't/won't sleep. Before I start planning a sleep routine, can someone speak sense remind that it is still very early days and reassure me that things will settle down again soon...please...? She slept from about 8 last night until 7am with two feeds at 12midnight and 5am. This is also her longest stretch of sleep like this. Any idea what's going on...? Buggered if I know and can't remember from before. Feel a bit overwhelmed tonight to be honest... MPD

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MitziKinsky · 11/11/2011 21:39

She is sleeping all night with just 2 feeds? Sounds good to me.Maybe she is really advanced.

Was she happy when she was awake today?

misspollysdolly · 11/11/2011 21:50

Pretty happy, yes, and it has been a day of being in and out of the house so I guess her ability to do more than cat nap has been fairly limited. She has got grumpy mostly in the car, in a tired grumpy kind of way, as if she's about to sleep but then doesn't quite make it into a deep enough sleep to stay asleep IYKWIM. This does seem to be the problem. She appears to be deeply asleep on the breast, sometimes pulling off, apparently asleep, but fairly quickly awakens and can't/won't resettle. And she will only sleep with/on me/DH and in our bed (hence the waking/feeding thing last night) - instantly wakes in the cot.

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misspollysdolly · 11/11/2011 22:04

I do suspect that she has silent reflux, which I think is what wakes her after feeding or when put in her cot... Sad

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misspollysdolly · 12/11/2011 07:46

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