One month old, huge sleep in the morning! Help?!

[hanflan]

We are in the process of trying to get our one month old to sleep a bit more at night, go for longer stretches etc. However she still wakes a lot in the night and not just to feed, she thinks it's play time! Then she ends up having a really long sleep from about 5am onwards. Usually 5am until 9 or 10am! We have tried to encourage more play time during the day, then keeping things darker and more calm at night. Also tried lots of daylight and fresh air, especially in the afternoon... Any other ideas on how we can get her to sleep a bit more at night? Or is she simply too young still?

Just go with it. It will all be different in a week anyway, then change again... And again... And again

a bit young although I would waken after 3 hours during that morning sleep in order to fit in a morning feed

Too young. She doesn't know the difference between day and night yet.

Yep just go with it, and sleep while she does.

Fresh air etc all good, but don't tie yourself in knots over it.

x-posts - never wake a sleeping baby.

Ds was very similar it used to really frustrate me he'd be wide awake 3am then sleep 5-9am but often on me so I couldn't sleep! He's better now but still often likes a nap 2h after he wakes but normally just for an hour now

I don't agree with not waking a sleeping baby (unless it's in the middle of the night)

4 weeks is very very young.
You are presumably on maternity leave so just sleep til 9am yourself, if you can.

Thanks all! I will just go with it for now then, and just get used to having a lie in haha. I am someone who usually thrives on planning and routines and so very much struggling getting to grips with the whole chaos of having a newborn haha!

Oh and Gina Bloody Ford is not helping matters ??

So ignore Gina Ford :)

She has now been asleep for nearly six hours, shit! Wish she could do this at night haha. She is clearly nocturnal

ah.

GF.

Ditch.

Why is it a problem that your baby has been asleep for 6 hours? From 3.30am presumably?

It's not a 'lie in' - it's sleep.

One month old, so somewhere around 4 weeks old?

Work on the basis that if not feeding, then baby should be asleep or trying to get to sleep - 24 hours a day.

From around 6 weeks old, then start introducing a little awake/happy time during the day after a feed but before a sleep. Maybe 30 minutes to an hour at first.

GoldenBeagle- not a problem, just very very unusual for her! Not complaining :)