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Answer by **KELLEY**
They sleep a lot. 16 hours+ a day Here is a link that might help you.

http://www.babycenter.com/404_how-much-should-my-newborn-be-sleeping_9943.bc

Answer by Steph
YES very normal my daughter is 8 months now she had that same sleep schedule for probably close to two months, and enjoy it because there will come a time when you are begging for this again. lol trust me

Answer by ASHLY HAGGIS
depends on his or her personality and environment , But if YOU are worried speak to a physician or health visitor as it is important at that age .

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Answer by hannah S
from birth i tried my son on a pattern but when he hit six months he wanted to just sleep when he wanted to so now i just do that and sometimes makes it easier if you have to go somewhere and your not stressing that they should be asleep.

Answer by MsStarr
I started training my daughter when she was about 6 months old. She used to wake up one time during the night for a bottle, but then fall right back to sleep. She is nearly 2 years old now, and sleeps like a champ. Her nap is 11:30am until about 1:30/2:00pm and then I put her down for bed at 8:30-9:00pm and she wakes up about 8:00am. Good luck.

Answer by D C
One they are off the bottle on onto more solid food. (If gerber strained peas can be considered solid) The tiny one will begin falling into a sleep pattern on their own. You will notice they are sleeping longer and longer through the night, and eventually will sleep all night.

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She has been changed and also fed a bottle… she just wont sleep if your not holding her right now.

How long did it take you to get your infant on a sleeping routine, OR how do you do it to where you can also get some sleep at night? I started crying tonight because I am just so tired.
I’m off of work for now and my husband works and so he wakes up early and so I am awake with her at night on the days he has to work… I used to love the bed in our room to go to bed, but now its just depressing because I know I wont be able to sleep anyways.

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Answer by Daniels’s Mommy 9/10/09
I have the same problem. I sleep with my son in a reclining chair. I tuck him close to me and I prop pillows under my arms so there is no way for him to move until we wake up and its the ideal sleep I can get.

Its really hard now because you have not figured a way to sleep and keep the baby happy but it will get easier once you find ways to cope and adjust. I cried a lot in the first few weeks and even now at 8 weeks it is hard but it is getting easier. Hang in there.. it will get better.

Do you have anyone that can watch her for a few hours while you can catch some sleep?

Like the second person stated with the Happiest Baby on the Block, it is a great book and worth buying it. The techniques did not really help my baby as much as others but it really helped me to comprehend what my baby was feeling and going through so I was superior able to deal with the crying. Pretty soon things will be easier, you will still have some bad nights but you will have some good ones as well.

White noise really helped my son calm down and fall asleep.

Answer by KELSEY G
That was me last night. My son would not stop crying unless I was holding him while walking circles in my room. So, I was right where you are holding my sweet angel, sobbing because I was SO tired. What worked for him, finally, was to swaddle him very snugly hold him on his side facing away from my body and bouncing my legs. He settled in, and I hit the hay!
Check out the book ‘The Happiest Baby on the Block’ by Harvey Karp. It has REALLY helped me. Do not worry, you are not alone, but it does get better!

Answer by M M T
{{{{{{{}}}}}}} Been there and done that! My son was the same way when he was a baby! I remember trying to function on one or two hours of sleep and it sucks!

And you are doing just what I did, put the baby in the swing or carrier instead of holding them. It’s a step towards learning to sleep without being held.

I was fortunate in that I had Father and two very willing and capable huge brothers (13 & 15) who helped out when I got that tired. More than once the boys (who were up anyhow being teens and on the weekend) sent me to bed and took the tiny guy. I’d come down in the morning and the teens would be crashed on the couch and the tiny guy snoozing in his carrier seat.

Ask for help! Ask friends or family if they can watch the baby for an afternoon so you can nap. Nap when the baby naps; it’s the only way! Get Father to take over in the early evening or on his days off when the baby will not sleep.

And do not get so hung up on the baby has to be in their crib to sleep. They sleep just fine almost anywhere. I used to take the carrier carefully into the living room, place it by the couch and crash out. As long as they are safe and warm, let sleeping babies lie!

Some babies get into a routine easily, some never get into one. My son fell into the latter category. And he was well over two years old before he slept a night through. But as he got older, he learned to put himself back to sleep but I still heard him rustling around.

Bottom line, ask for help! Do not listen to the ninnies that tell you their babies slept all night from day one! And do not let them make you feel that you are failing somehow because your baby will not sleep like their tiny angel did. They are full of horse pucky! Each baby is different, none of them come with instruction manuals and sometimes it takes time to get things figured out. More than once I have gotten the my baby slept all night from 1 week old from the mom and then asked the dad (on the QT) and he stated “hell no!”. The kid was up squalling all the time!

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Does any one have any good recommendations with developing a routine for sleeping and feeding the baby?

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Answer by Mummy to 9&½ mo JAKE
You cannot really develop a routine when they are 5 days old.
feed them when they are hungry – let them sleep when they are sleepy.
before long (my son was about 7 weeks) they will begin to realise the difference between day and night and will begin having one huge sleep. (my son used to sleep about 6 hours from late afternoon until about 8 o clock)

Answer by yungcountry
the routine will be set by the baby and there is not much you can do about it. the will not have a set routine for a while.

you can help boost her supply with herbal supplements. call the lactation consultant at the hospital and ask about it. i had a low supply and was dripping in 2 days from them.

the age old debate to wake a sleeping baby or not for feeding. well i state NO. but that is up to you. i figure if baby is sleeping then so can i. but that might not work for you. so you can wake baby, just be prepaired that baby might not be happy about getting woken up.

Answer by Amber’s mommy
Just go with the flow for right now! When your baby is about 3 months old is when you can begin to establish a routine

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Answer by hypo
When he wakes up at 6.30 is the sun up? how dark is his room? I know my daughter usually wakes up when the sun does, so if i make her room dark, she sleeps longer.

Answer by Canadian Mom
If my tiny one wakes at 6:30ish I give her a bottle and she goes back to sleep. I would try that.

Answer by forth_armoury
Our daughter usually sleeps until 7:30am, but when we had daylight savings time change a few weeks back, she started waking up at 6:30am, because her body still thought it was 7:30!

Try darker curtains. My daughter wakes up with the sun.

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Do you follow a routine like before bed give baby a bath and dim the lights.

Then the midnight feedings and diaper changes.

Any advice? On getting newborn to sleep through the night?

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Answer by jenaenae
my 6 month old actually has the exact routine as your child. she also sleeps about 11-12 hours/night.

Answer by sexynurse
Okay mine wakes up around 830 and actually right now just started a nap (lol) it will be around 20 min long. Then he will take another 30-1hr nap around 1pm and usaully is up the rest of the time maybe a few cat naps till about 9pm and its off to sleepy town for him! But he still wakes for night feedings =( and he is 4 months old
Sounds kinda like yours!

Answer by rj_norrman
my 6 month old has the same pattern but his cousin who is 6 weeks older seems to be asleep when he is awake

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Answer by Betsy
It is but babies move in their sleep too LOL

Answer by new_baby_2006
Yes they do practice a sleep routine. Normally it’s when your more active the baby is sleeping…when your sleeping the baby is more active.

Answer by Velken
Its not that they practice. Just like a baby out of the womb, a baby inside the womb has periods of awake and asleep. Since they can’t see the sun inside the womb, they wake and sleep as they want. After birth, your baby will slowly get into a sleep pattern. Eventually dark means sleep and light means awake. At 2 my youngest loved to get up at 5AM in the summer. Daylight meant wake up the house!

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But now, two of our 22 day old newborns (our son and one of the girls) are very colicy and are screaming at various points of the night.
Between the two of them, my husband and I are only getting about 2 hours of sleep a night. On top of that, their screaming keeps my six year old son, three year old daughter and the third triplet awake, making them physically eshausted and VERY cranky.

I am worrided about when school starts again, and I have to send my sleep deprived children to school each morning.

The physicians have *hush, hushed* us, telling us that colic is normal and will pass with time. I know this is true, but I want to know what to do in the meantime!

Any advice is welcome, and please, if anyone knows anything about how to quiet a colicy baby, please help me!

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Answer by lunarfishgirl
Try gripe water

Answer by prncswarrior03
There is always the Mylecon drops, but they can sometimes be constipating. It helped my children to make sure there bottles were warm and be sure they are burping at various points during the feeding.

Answer by Farron D
My 2nd born son became colicy after 3 weeks. I got him into a sleep routine. I would let him take a nap and when he awoke I would play with him for about 30 minutes or so and then give him a bath. After the bath I would rub him down with Johnson & Johnson bedtime lotion. Then I would feed him. If he needed to be burped I would burp him and then sit there rocking him while also patting his back. He would fall asleep and I would put him to bed. If he woke up after that I would sit with him in the lavatory away from my other son. I would turn on the HOT water for the steam and it would put him back to sleep after about 20 minutes.

After about 2 weeks of doing this he is back to the way he was when we brought him home.

Just make sure to take the crying babies away from the other children that are sleeping.

Sometimes even a drive will help. One parent stay home while the other took the children for a drive. If they fell asleep during the drive… Leave them in their automobile seats to sleep for the night.

Many different ways to help colic babies… usually only one helps.

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Answer by Brenda L
Some babies like schedules and some don’t. If you are going to bathe him do it at the same time everyday. He should get use to a routine if the same each night.

Answer by liam’s mommy
Newborns are exhausting. After trying really hard for a month trying to get my newborn into my schedule I gave up. As soon as I stopped he seemed to be less work. I just stopped trying so hard and just went with whatever he wanted. We both were happier. I did not notice Liam get into a reliable schedule (which he did one his own) until around 5-6 months. Congrats on your baby!

Answer by dot falcon
Hi there. I have got 3 kiddos and with the first one, this happened BAD, and it only got worse for 10 months! So with my 2nd and 3rd, I got a book called “Babywise” and it worked like magic! Some people think that a schedule is wrong, but in mine and my friends and sister’s experience, it makes for a Much happier baby and a MUCH happier mom!
Good luck!!

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