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Elbee
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Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
My DD is 13 days old. Since she came home from the hospital she has been sleeping a lot. The first few nights were 6 hours at night. Now it's around 5 hours per night.
During the day she was feeding every 2 hours ... now she goes 3-5 hours in between feedings.
I cannot rouse her to eat .. she wakes when she wants no matter what I do. If I do eventually get her to wake, she promptly falls asleep within 3 minutes.
All the old school people in my life say I should feel blessed, but I don't think she is waking/eating enough. She seems satisfied and doesn't cry a lot ... but isn't she sleeping too much?
Any advice on how to wake her, at least during the day? I am constantly engorged and in pain. I am pumping around 10-15 oz per day for freezer stock and relief.
Help! TIA
ETA yesterday's schedule:
4:15 am - BF 10 min
5:30 am: BF 5 min
8:30 am: BF 30 min
11:30 am: BF 20 min
4:30 pm: BF 25 min
8:45 pm: BF 15 min
11:30 pm BF 15 min
4:30 am: BF 30 min
Message edited 7/21/2011 7:27:53 AM.
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ruby
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
If you want to continute BFing and regulate your supply, at her age you should still be waking her every 2-3 hours to eat during the day. Just pick her up, undress her down to her diaper, tickle her feet, blow on her head, play with her ears, etc....annoy her basically.  At night, as long as she's been gaining weight you can let her sleep but it's important to keep at it during the day. If you find yourself still engorged and she will not wake up then you should pump for every missed feeding.
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Elbee
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
I do annoy her She doesn't care. I was blowing on her face last night. She would shake her head, open her eyes and quickly fall back asleep  She's like her daddy
I am so frustrated by her sleeping too much - I never thought those words would come out of my mouth!
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headoverheels
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
I agree with the PP, I don't think you need to wake her at night, it's more important to wake her during the day so she knows the difference between day and night.
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maybeamommy
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
Posted by headoverheels
I agree with the PP, I don't think you need to wake her at night, it's more important to wake her during the day so she knows the difference between day and night.
ITA!
This way they know the difference and get on some sort of "schedule"
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TheDivineMrsM
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
Does changing her diaper do anything? I would unzip DD's onesie, but that was in December and the cool air would wake her.
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| Posted 7/21/11 8:19 AM |
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
Posted by Elbee
I do annoy her She doesn't care. I was blowing on her face last night. She would shake her head, open her eyes and quickly fall back asleep She's like her daddy
I am so frustrated by her sleeping too much - I never thought those words would come out of my mouth!
This was my EXACT same situation and I was so frustrated and overwhelmed. I was so worried he wasn't getting enough and was going to lose weight. Everyone said I had to wake him and get him to eat but it was impossible. It started in the hospital and I actually said to the nurse and LC (because they were getting on my case) "can you wake him because I can't!" Well, they couldn't either! The tricks didn't work with him, just like your LO.
The only thing that worked for me was changing his diaper. At that age, he HATED it and would wake up. He also hated to lie flat, so I would put him unswaddled on the couch. After a few minutes he would wake up enough to eat.
It will get better but I totally understand how frustrating this is! For me, we did a 180 and started eating well but not sleeping!  We are just getting into healthy eating and sleeping habits at 8 weeks.
Good luck!
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| Posted 7/21/11 10:49 AM |
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
BTW - I am so jealous of the sleep you get at night!!! DS is up at least 3 times between 11 and 7 and sometimes an additional time for no reason (doesn't eat).
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| Posted 7/21/11 10:52 AM |
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MommaBear
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
My DD was like that at first, enjoy it for now...it won't last! I was seriously engorged at the beginning too but eventually it all evened out.
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| Posted 7/21/11 10:54 AM |
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PotofLuck06
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Re: Newborn: Breastfeeding & Sleeping
Posted by ruby
If you want to continute BFing and regulate your supply, at her age you should still be waking her every 2-3 hours to eat during the day. Just pick her up, undress her down to her diaper, tickle her feet, blow on her head, play with her ears, etc....annoy her basically. At night, as long as she's been gaining weight you can let her sleep but it's important to keep at it during the day. If you find yourself still engorged and she will not wake up then you should pump for every missed feeding.
I agree. My Ped. told us to wake her every 2 hours irregardless of her sleep schedule. DH and I would change her, tickle her, talk to her, make noise, etc to get her to feed. Sometimes she would fall sleep during a feed and we'd sit her up and try to wake her back up.
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