Newborn sleep

[JL642]

Hello!

We have a three week newborn and I’ve recently started to notice a sleeping pattern with her. She likes to do one long 3/4 sleep in the day - she’s conked! - and then a shorter 2 hour nap early evening/late afternoon. At night she’ll sleep max two hours or 1.5 hours in one go, and wakes every hour (or less) for feeding. She cluster feeds late evening to 1am too (which I dont enjoy but hey ho)

I know newborns have day / night confusion but I REALLY wish her nice long 3/4 hour kip was at night as opposed to in the day!!

Is there anything I can do at this stage, or is she just too small/young? Since birth I’ve been feeding on demand (BF) and following her lead for sleep. I don’t wake her during her long day sleep as she gets fed both before and after. Wondering if I should wake her during her day sleep and if that will help her sleep longer at night, or, as above, is she too small? I don’t want to interupt sleep if I don’t have to as I assume she needs it to grow.

Any suggestions welcome, even if it is just confirmation that she’s still small and I should continue following her lead.

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This has just come up on my notifications and my Dc is now 8 months.

Wow (1) I don’t remember posting this at three weeks and (2) I wish I could have told myself to relax at the time. I guess I must have been in the thick of it.

For anyone else who may read this with a newborn - my baby has sorted sleep out slowly all by herself as she got older and bigger. I didn’t do anything. They all cluster feed at night anyway. Enjoy the cuddles :)

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