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ACTIVITY => E.A.S.Y. Forum => Topic started by: Zok539 on December 12, 2017, 09:39:21 am
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Hi there,
I’m trying to use the EASY method with my seven week old daughter- mostly it’s going well but I’ve got a couple of questions I can’t find the answer to anywhere and was hoping someone might be able to help!
Firstly, my daughter seems to feed really quickly- maximum fifteen minutes, more often ten. She’s putting on weight and I’m not too concerned, but then we move onto the activity and I often spot her yawning ten minutes into it. Which means that the EA part of the routine can be half an hour, or occasionally I can stretch it to an hour.
This means the cycles are really short and she is sleeping a lot of the day- particularly in the morning where from the moment she wakes up she wants to go back for a nap! She’ll then can be very difficult to get down for a nap late afternoon which can cause difficulties for bath time etc.
How can I adjust for this so I am not feeding her every two hours? Should I let her sleep for 2/2.5 hrs at time to extend the cycle? Is it ok to let her sleep so much during the day- it doesn’t seem to affect the night, but perhaps makes sleep and naps in the late afternoon/ early evening difficult sometimes. Any thoughts very much welcomed and appreciated.
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Hi, welcome :)
She's a tiny newborn - some of them sleep a lot. The 1.5hr A time thing you've probably read about is average for a 3 month old baby. When babies 'wake up' from their newborn sleepy phase varies. If she's sleeping well at night and during the day, keep going with what you're doing.
I take it she's breastfed? If so, feeding every 2hr is not an issue - its recommended to feed on demand though I wouldn't be waking her from naps unless it had been 3hr since last feed.
Babies are not born with a body clock that tells them when day and night are, so its worth trying to give her cues about that. Here's some info about sleep: https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=64515.0
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Thank you so much for the reply- makes perfect sense! I didn’t want her to sleep so much that it would cause problems but it sounds like she is too young for this to be the case so thanks for the reassurance!