Does anyone know exactly how much sleep a newborn baby is supposed to have?

New born babies usually get about 14 - 18 hours of sleep a day. Our new born baby (he's 3 months old now) would pretty much just eat, sleep and poop for the first month and a half, and then started waking up a little longer. He also would only sleep for like 2 hour stretches before he'd get hungry and need to eat.

Those were hard days (and nights! ) They can't sleep for long periods yet - they will sleep alot, but in 2 - 4 hour stretches (be glad you're getting the 4 hour stretches! ) Also, there's no such thing as your baby getting "too much sleep."

I he's not getting enough sleep, he'll cry and you can comfort him till he goes down. Swaddling helps A LOT (I included a website with a step by step instruction to swaddle him - it's way easy and makes a HUGE difference! ) They don't know what day and night even means yet, so feed him on demand and then swaddle him up and put him down or hold him and rock him - there is NO SUCH THING as spoiling a newborn baby.

Give him lots of love and affection! The first website is pretty good for sleep info, but I HIGHLY reccomend a book called Baby 411 - it's straight up, short, easy advice that REALLY helped us as first time parents. That book literally will answer all of your questions - like how to swaddle, forming patterns, girl, these even a section on what their poop should look like!

It was our guide through these first 3 months and we recommend it to everyone! HAng in there and good luck! And STOP WORRYING!

They sense your nerves and won't relax until you do. You're doing great!

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