Is there such a thing as too much sleep?

[Saskin]

I know most of you will hate this post... but I'm getting caught up with the whole... "lo shouldn't sleep more then 6 hours during the day"

My son is a GREAT sleeper... actually gets quite fussy when he's tired and wants to sleep.

If push came to shove... he's get his 6 hours before 4pm... but after waking him for his 4pm feed... I find it quite difficult to keep him up.  Eventually he gets very fussy and wants to go down.  Usually around 5pm... but he could sleep another 2 hours! 

I'm not having any problems with NW... he is 7 weeks and sleeping from after bath time 730-8ish to 4-5 every day. 

Should I try to keep him up longer?  Should I wake him from his CN?  Or should I just not fix something that isn't broken...

[~Karen~]

I wouldn't!  My ds2 was the same.  Slept all day and all night too!  I'd let him sleep as much as he wants personally.  If he starts waking up more in the night or earlier in the morning then you might want to start cutting daytime sleep but in the meantime enjoy it!

[Saskin]

Thanks!  It's nice to have this forum as support.  It's not everyone that understands this routine... Especially my mother in law's generation lol

[Papaya]

Definitely don't mess with a good thing! As Karen said, if you start to get short naps or more NWs you might need to change something but until then...lucky you!