Too much daytime sleep?

[Bexter]

My DH and I are EXTREMELY lucky that our 7 week old DD is already sleeping through from 2300 - 0700. However, she sleeps ALL morning (after both her 0700 and 1030/1100 feeds), she is alert for an hour or so in the afternoon and then is fully awake for the entire evening, sometimes upwards of 5 hours!! If DH and I want to re-claim our evenings, how can I get DD to stay awake in the morning and afternoon? Have tried playing, tepid bathing, jiggling up and down etc but nothing seems to work - once she gets 'lolly head' we cannot keep her awake!!

My dd did EXACTLY the same at that age and I remember thinking exactly the same thing! What I did was start to get her to bed a bit earlier every night until she was going to sleep at 8pm. It then just followed that she would be awake more in the day. I don't think I did it until she was about 3 months old though, just because I didn't think about it until I suddenly realised I needed an evening again. .

my DD 13 weeks exactly the same sleeps from 12-1am till 6 or 7 sometimes longer, straight back to sleep after 7 and 11am feeds, one sleep in the afternoon and up from 6pm

So good to hear we're not the only ones! Shouldn't complain really as at least we're getting a good 7-8 hours thru the night! Prefernot - when you started bringing the bedtimes earlier, was your DD still having a 2200/2300 feed or had she dropped that one by 3 months?

fairly typical of mine at that age too I think.