Recalibrating night and day!

[LaPufalina]

Morning(!) all
I currently have my newborn asleep on my chest (well, almost five weeks old).
She is the most incredible sleeper, but in the daytime! I have to wake her for a feed (say if we need to go out, as we also have a toddler), and she can go for four hours without waking. I've not left her longer than that. In fact, today I tried to wake her for ten minutes and she was having none of it, so I fed her in the park when she woke an hour later.
At night she wakes every 90mins-2 hours to feed (she's EBF), and then from about 3am she morphs into a shadow-boxing warthog and makes lots of noise until I put her on my chest to sleep. She sometimes transfers back into her side-crib if she's sound enough asleep, but by then I'm wide awake.
Any tips on getting day and night switched around? I know I'm lucky to have a sleepy one and want to make the most of it!

Shadow boxing warthog sounds about right!
Sure you’re already doing this, but good to keep nighttime as boring and dark as possible - lights off/as dim as possible even for feeds and nappy changes, no talking or playing during wake time.

Once my DS was about 8 weeks I started trying when I could do get really full feeds into him at night instead of snack feeds, then if he woke only a short while later I tried to resettle him without a feed, rather than immediately thinking he must be hungry.

That's a good idea. I might offer her the other side once I've winded her to see if I can get more in. My first just used to go straight back to sleep with no winding (but didn't sleep through until 18 months!) so I'm having to get used to doing something more than just feed and plonk back! Thanks

All you really need to do is to expose her to as much natural daylight as possible. Spend lots of time outside if you can (there's evidence to show newborns who spend more time outside get their day and night straight and establish a diurnal rhythm quicker), don't make it too quiet or dark for daytime sleeps, but make sure night is dim and boring, speak quietly if you speak, don't play with or stimulate her.

@CountessVonBoobs does it count if she's asleep outside?

As long as she's getting some daylight on her face, yes!

Thanks 👍🏻