naps, gas and nursing

[Minoh]

Dd is almost 2wks old and I wish I could just go with the flow more. I read so many books when ds was a baby, and I hate always comparing my kiddos to the expectations set out by the different authors.

Dd is sleeping late into the morning these days (wakes about every 2hrs at night to nurse and is also pretty unsettled in the early morning hours with gas). Then she is up for hrs at a time. Should I be worried that she isn't going to sleep without that 2hr window that so many people say is important?

Then in the afternoon she has at least one major long nap, like 4hrs or so. Does that seem too long? Should I be waking her to nurse before that?

I hate how I'm second guessing everything and feeling tense about things at this point. My parenting confidence seems to diminish with every hour of lost sleep

[skg_7]

I don't have any concrete answers for you, except that I think at 2 weeks everything you're describing sounds really normal. IE -- a bit all over the place, sometimes awake for surprisingly long, sometimes asleep too briefly, sometimes asleep surprisingly long, too. I wouldn't worry, if that's what you're asking, but I'm not an expert.

Daniel is erratic. I never know from one day to the next what we'll be facing. But I can relate to the gas as a source of disturbance. When he has a bad gas day (about every third day at this point) he's awake much more and generally unsettled and uncomfortable. I'll finally get him to sleep and the next thing I know, a gas pain has woken him up (or a reflux pain).

I think you're doing great.

[ladyelms]

The only "rule" I go by is not letting them sleep longer than four hours, w/o waking them to nurse because your milk supply depends on that.