How.much does/did your newborn sleep

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I'm in an enviable position where my 6 week old sleeps. She is breastfed with a bottle of expressed milk at night as even if she'd feed for over an hour on both breasts she would still be hungry, she tends to have skin on skin and breast feed at 7:30 after a bath then a bottle between 8:30 and 9:30. Bottles range from 90ml to 140ml and once she is done if she hasn't finished the bottle I don't try her with more. The last 3 nights she's slept 9:30pm-5:30am, she has just gone in a sleeping bag.

Over the past week though she has been sleeping nearly all day but with plenty of wet and dirty nappies and when she is awake she is so alert and happy. Only cries when she wants milk.

I don't want to be that mum but I'm actually worried she's sleeping a lot. I have a toddler who has been bringing bugs home from nursery so for two weeks she has had a bit of a snuffly nose but she still seems happy and content and no temp or anything. Is she sleeping too much or should I shut up and be thankful 😂

Deffo be thankful. Sounds normal!

I think you should be thankful!!
I've had a 'normal' sleeper, in the sense that she isn't terrible like I read in these forums sometimes (never able to do more than 3 hours since birth, for example!, but also not AMAZING like 8 hours at 6 weeks

If she's gaining weight, and seems alert and happy and developing normally, you are just the luckiest gal in the world.

For the first 2 weeks she slept 3 hour stretches, then she started doing 4, then gradually up to 5, and a few times we got 6 hour stretches (I'm talking week 3 and 4 here), then from around week 6 to week 8, the fussiness during the day hit its peak, and her sleep got COMPLETELY messed up. She would resist naps like there's no tomorrow and would wake up literally every hour after her first stretch of sleep (which never last more than than 3 hours).

From week 8 to now (she is almost 12 weeks), it became linear with a few blips, first 5 hour stretches, a few times 6, then 6h30, and then last night I got 7h44mn for the FIRST time!!
One this that I started doing differently is spacing out her feeds during the day a bit more (the nurse told me to fed on demand when we left the hospital, which I took very at heart, and have been feeding on demand since. However it's my first and I was clueless so I basically fed her everytime she was crying (she rejected the dummy for the first 2 months of her life), which could be every hour (quick feeds of 5mn though).

Now I'm spacing them out to at least 2 hours, which she struggles to reach sometimes, 2,5hrs if I can make it.
I also started to give her a bottle of expressed milk AFTER I fed her in the evening. So she'll drink from both my breasts, but I don't think she's giving it her all, so then we proceed with the rest of the routine, and finish with a bottle right before e put her down. BOY that worked like a charm and she slept ALMOST 8 hours last night.

Of course I didn't sleep all that time as my body obviously decides to wake me up at 4am, since it's been used to doing that since the 17th of July 😓

My second was like this. She only napped for an hour or two, woke to feed or sleep feed, then napped. For about 6 weeks she must have slept more than 20 hours a day, I was googling it too lol. Very very different experience from my first, made it great for spending extra time with my 3 year old :)

My granddaughter 6 weeks old sleeps 6 hour stretches and like you my daughter wakes up with a fright because baby hasn’t stirred! Lazy feeder but takes so much she’s sick when lifter out of her cot! So reassuring ! She’s also putting on weight!! Xx