I have been very very happy with the weight gain M is having these days, but my mind is still going in circles.
My latest thoughts (and those of you who are from the medical profession that are reading this, please feel free to chime in) are I'm wondering if we should maybe be also looking at why this little girl still sleeps so much? Or is that something that I should just be thankful for? My questions around this are because she still doesn't eat very much...and I DO think that part of the reason she doesn't eat much is because she is always sleeping! For example, she went to bed last night at 5:00pm and now it's 7:30am and she's still sleeping! She did wake once to eat at 3:00am, but with such an early bed time, and the fact she naps a min 8 hours in a day, she only had 3 bottles yesterday. Now if those bottles would be 6 oz bottles, I would feel a little better, but they are all 3-4oz bottles. Sometimes only 2oz! So not enough! If I try to feed her when she doesn't want to eat, she just won't eat. You can't force this little girl to do anything. So offering her small meals often, doesn't work for her.
Now again, if this is just something I should be thankful for, then I can do that, but it just seems a little obvious to me that maybe she is sleeping too much? Maybe it would help if I could get 6 bottles into her, instead of 3? I don't know. Just some thoughts.
it does seem to me that she sleeps more than normal. that being said, my boy sleeps less than normal and every kid has their own rhythm. have you talked to your doctor about it? is she still sleeping just as much as she was as an almost newborn? sometimes being very sleepy and not eating enough kind of snowball because when blood sugar drops, they get sleepy. hard to tell which one comes first.
ReplyDeleteYes Val, she does most of the time sleep as much as she did as a newborn. Her sleep hasn't changed that much. There are days that she will be awake a little more then her normal, but she still sleeps around 20 hours (or more) out of 24 hours. For instance, yesterday she slept from 7:30pm till 11:30am the next day. That's 16 hours!!
ReplyDeleteI have mentioned it to the doctor and she was quite concerned about it, but I haven't brought it up in a while because I thought maybe she was starting to wake up a little more...but now being almost 6 months old and still sleeping like that seems a little odd to me....but maybe this is just how she is and in which case I am VERY lucky!!!
I'm no expert on babies past the newborn stage, but I know that when we see super sleepy babies who just don't want to eat in the hospital, most of the time it is very closely related to them not eating as much as they should. The less they eat, the less energy they have, the less energy they have, the less drive they have to wake up and eat effectively. When you say how much she's eating, it doesn't surprise me that she is so sleepy. I don't think you're worries are silly, they are definitely valid. I'd bring it up again to the doc. Hope the doc gives you some helpful words about this. --Lynette
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