10 day old long naps during day short at night

[LouBlo]

Hey, I am a first time (struggling) mum. My little girl is 10 days old, formula fed & sleeps beautifully for 3hrss during the day. However when night time comes it’s a whole different story! She sleeps 1-2hrs tops waking for a feed which she then proceeds to only have a tiny amount of.

Is there anything I can do to change this??

She doesn’t know what day and night is yet. During the day while she naps make sure the room is kept bright and that you make normal noise, radio, or tv on and talk at normal level, at night keep lights low and use a quiet voice. It’s very early days so I would expect unsettled nights for a while yet.

When babies are born their sicadian rhythms are all out and they do tend to feed all night and sleep all day. Have you read about cluster feeding? It tends to happen from about 8pm onwards and can go on for hours. You can try to bring their day and night round the right way but being clear with light/dark but I’m afraid it’s mostly time. They will grow out of it, and these first few weeks of no sleep will be a distant memory.
My dd was a horror at night for about 8 weeks and then something seemed to click and she was suddenly sleeping longer each session.

It’s really hard, keep going

Completely normal for a tiny baby! It's hard but it will change, she will gradually move to longer sleeps at night. Hang in there and enjoy your gorgeous squidgy new baby!