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The feeding frenzy is an effort to get your milk production up. As far as her being fussy after she nurses, have you thought about removing dairy from your diet? Dairy sensitivites are VERY common and often all the mom needs to do is remove the dairy from her own diet.
When you understand your newborn’s sleep patterns and habits, you can start to establish a little more structure in your daily life and build a little more confidence in your decisions and actions during the baby’s first days.
While newborns can’t stay on a strict sleep or feeding schedule – mostly due to their many growth spurts in these early months – these sample newborn sleep and feeding schedules can guide you through these stages and make sure everyone is getting the sleep and nutrition they need.
Otherwise, you may be soothing a crying baby all day.
A newborn baby cries a lot more when they are over-tired, not sleeping enough, or hungry. In other words, getting him or her on a routine (even if it’s not a strict schedule) can be a life-saver!
Your newborn’s feeding schedule should be age-appropriate, and you should never withhold food from a newborn just to stay on schedule. A newborn sleep schedule is also often based on how long your baby can stay awake (not strictly by the clock), which is usually short in the newborn days.
Keep reading to discover what you can do to get started.
Understanding Newborn Sleep Patterns
A baby is considered a newborn from birth until about 3 months of age.
During this period, your newborn’s sleep patterns will look nothing like yours.
Your baby will sleep in short bursts – anywhere from 30 or 45 minutes to 3 or possibly 4 hours – and then eat between periods of sleep.
In other words, the typical day/night sleep cycle doesn’t really apply to newborns. Some newborns come out of the womb with their days and nights completely mixed up!
This is called day/night confusion, and babies who struggle with it tend to sleep a lot during the day and then wake up frequently at night.
Many newborns also seem extra sleepy in the first week or two after birth and must be woken up to feed or drift off while feeding before getting their fill.
Eventually, though, your newborn will definitely “wake up” within three weeks after birth. This is when you will start to deal with more wakefulness. In fact, you may start to miss the early weeks of having a super-sleepy newborn!
Babies simply cry more often as they get a bit older (depending on temperament), but you will quickly learn how to soothe a crying baby.
Working with Newborn Feeding Schedules
Newborns feed very, very frequently, but this isn’t a problem that needs to be solved.
It’s perfectly natural!
Your newborn’s tummy is quite small. They simply need to fill it up regularly.
Formula-fed newborns may need to eat slightly less often than breastfed newborns because it takes a newborn’s tummy longer to digest and break down formula.
So babies tend to feel fuller for longer periods of time. Breast milk, on the other hand, is digested fairly quickly.
How much breastmilk or formula does your baby need?
Every situation is different, of course, but if your baby is formula-fed, you can use a fairly simple formula to determine approximately how many ounces your baby needs in a day.
Simply multiply your baby’s weight by 2.5.
For example, an 8-pound baby would need about 20 ounces of formula in a 24-hour period.
If your baby is breastfed, the general rule is that most newborns need between 20 and 30 ounces of breastmilk (and between 25-35 ounces once they’re past the newborn stage).
How often should you feed your baby?
In general, if you are exclusively nursing, it’s best to nurse on demand in the first few weeks after birth to ensure that your milk supply becomes well-established. In fact, in order to maintain your supply, you’ll need to nurse every 2 to 3 hours, on average.
Once your baby is past 3 months of age and is in the infant stage, that will slowly stretch into 5-6 hours, and then 7-8, and eventually right up to 10 or 11 hours once your baby is 9 months old or 10 months old.
Newborn Growth Spurts
Believe it or not, a lot is going on with your newborn baby.
So much growth and development is happening in that little body! Your newborn will very likely go through growth spurts at the following times:
- 7-10 days of age
- 2-3 weeks of age
- 4-6 weeks of age
- 3 months of age
During these growth spurts, it will feel like your newborn is feeding almost constantly (and like when she’s not feeding, she’s sleeping). This is 100% normal – feed your newborn as often as she needs it, as the extra nourishment is important during the growth spurt.
How to Create a Newborn Feeding and Sleep Schedule
Your unique newborn’s wake times and total sleep needs may vary from what is recommended below.
These schedules are based on averages, but your baby may need more or less sleep (or shorter/longer wake times) than what is listed here.
Remember, watch your baby’s sleepy cues closely (rubbing eyes, yawning, staring off into space, etc.), and let those guide the sleep schedule.
Remember, too, that if your baby is already fussing, he or she is already overtired. Try to get your child down for his or her nap earlier next time, before the fussing starts.
2-8 Week Old Newborn, Breast Feeding
This schedule is best for babies who consume average amounts of breast milk and for moms who have average breast milk production and storage amounts.
| 9:00 AM | Wake and Feed* |
| 10:00 AM | Nap (30-60 minutes) |
| 11:00 AM | Wake and Feed |
| 12:30 PM | Nap (30-60 minutes) |
| 1:30 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 3:30 PM | Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 4:30 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 6:00 PM | Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 6:30 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 7:30 PM | Catnap (20 – 30 minutes) |
| 8:00 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 9:30 PM | Catnap (20 – 30 minutes) |
| 10:00 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 11:30 PM | Feed and Bedtime* |
| 3:30 AM | Feed and Right back to sleep |
| 6:30 AM | Feed and Right back to sleep |
* – We recommend you make these fixed points in your baby’s schedule. You can read more about this in our article on fixed points in a baby schedule.
Babies who eat smaller amounts, babies with reflux, and moms who produce and store smaller amounts of breastmilk will need a different schedule. So will babies who eat larger amounts per feeding and moms who produce/store greater amounts of breast milk.
Schedules for those scenarios, as well as schedules for older, breastfed newborns, are available in our newborn book, Essential Keys To Your Newborn’s Sleep.
2-8 Week Old Newborn, Formula Feeding
This schedule recommends longer naps and fewer feedings than the breastfeeding schedule above, simply because formula is more difficult for baby to digest. So, babies tend to feel fuller longer and therefore need slightly fewer feedings.
| 9:00 AM | Wake and Feed* |
| 10:00 AM | Nap (60 – 90 minutes) |
| 11:30 AM | Wake |
| 12:30 PM | Feed and Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 1:30 PM | Wake |
| 3:00 PM | Feed and Nap (60 – 90 minutes) |
| 4:30 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 6:00 PM | Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 6:30 PM | Wake |
| 7:30 PM | Feed and Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 8:30 PM | Wake |
| 9:30 PM | Nap (30 – 60 minutes) |
| 10:00 PM | Wake and Feed |
| 11:30 PM | Feed and Bedtime* |
| 4:30 AM | Feed and Right back to sleep |
| 7:30 AM | Feed and Right back to sleep |
* – We recommend you make these fixed points in your baby’s schedule. You can read more about this in our article on fixed points in a baby schedule.
For formula-feeding schedules for older newborns, see our newborn book, Essential Keys To Your Newborn’s Sleep.
Additional Newborn Sleep Articles
Want more newborn sleep tips? Check out our other newborn sleep articles:
- Establishing Healthy Sleep Habits In Your Newborn (Members Area tele-seminar)
- Essential Keys to Your Newborn’s Sleep (Members Area digital book)
- Your Top 5 Breastfeeding + Sleep Questions Answered by an Expert (Members Area article)
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The waiting is over – he is finally here!
Rowan Christopher Essery was born at home, on our lounge floor, weighing a whopping 10lb 3oz! Our neighbours obviously heard their fair share as they asked my husband over the fence the next day whether I had either given birth, or we’d had really loud sex the night before. I cannot believe the size of him, nor could my poor, gobsmacked midwives. But everything went beautifully, and we have had an amazing week getting to know our new son.
As I had hoped, Rowan and I got to have a good hour of uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact immediately after he was born, and he started to breastfeed during this time. He was very ‘on and off’ the breast at first, but I just went with it and let him take the lead. Two hours later, once he had been wrapped up and I had been ‘patched up’, he had another 40 minute feed from both breasts, where he and I both seemed much more confident.
I have been really keen to get the breastfeeding off to a good start, so this has meant lots of closeness, cuddles, and cluster feeds.
Fine by me.
The second night with Rowan was pretty tough feeding wise. It is no exaggeration to say that he breastfed ALL NIGHT. Between 11pm and 7am I must have fed him at least 16 times. And because my son thought it would be a good idea to be born during a record breaking heat wave, I was petrified of him overheating and becoming dehydrated. But I tried to keep my midwife–mummy head and look for all the signs of ‘effective milk transfer’. Probably the easiest and most reliant way for mums to assess for themselves how feeding is going is to have a good rummage through a soiled nappy.
As a baby’s nappy will change daily in the first week, it is a great indicator of how successful the feeding is going. Here are some really useful links telling you what to expect.
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The general rule is that during the first 48 hours you should see at least 2-3 wet nappies and 1 meconium (black, sticky stuff) stool. Days 3-5 will see an increase to 3-5 wet ones in 24 hours and a minimum of 2 ‘changing stools’, often turning from black to brown, green then orange. From day 5 it is a reassuring sign if the poos are yellow and soft, 2 or more a day hopefully. Day 6 onwards will bring an obvious increase in urine to 6 or more, the nappies will feel much more bulky and full prior to changing.
So, as a little treat; here are Rowan’s poo files.
0-24 hours: 3 meconium poos and 2 wees
24-48 hours: 0 poos and 3 wees
Day 2: 3 brownish/green poos and 4 wees
Day 3: 3 green explosive poos* and 5 wees
Day 4: 4 orangey poos and 6 wees
Day 5: 4 yellow poos and 6+ wees
Day 6: 4 yellow poos and 6+ wees
Who doesn’t love a poo picture?
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*So day 3 involved us attempting our first ‘family of four’ outing to the local soft play. I thought it would be a nice, easy, local trip out, our daughter could run around having fun whilst we sat in the café watching, and I serenely fed and cuddled our newborn. Rowan had other plans for us. I picked up my gorgeous new son, and held him nice and close, when I noticed my white top was now a bright shade of luminous green. Realising that I was now soaking up his excrement with my t-shirt, I quickly took him to the baby change to sort it. This not only resulted in my first ever poo selfie, but I also managed to throw the bag of dirty clothes in the nappy bin and take the bag of baby shit home with me!
So I did what every sleep deprived, hormonal mother would do, and sent my husband back to sift through the poo bin until he found the right bag. If I managed to push a 10 pounder out my bits then he can surely do me the favour of rifling through a bin of human filth?!
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Needless to say my husband wasn’t too happy, but Rowan was…
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