Baby sleeping too much, whats wrong

Senior Member Joined: Jul 30 2006 Posts: 184

my 6 week old has been sleeping all day, barely waking up for feeds, is he okay? he usually stays up for quite a few hours every day, we tryed giving him a bath, it kept him awake for a few minutes and he dropped right back off. he doesnt have a temperature

when babies sleep too long at atime like that they may be dehydrated. that happened to my son when he was just a few days old, he was dehydrated.
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Keep waking him up. Feed him on the clock, or more often, at least every 3 hours.

Dehydrated or very hungry. Are you nursing? Do you have enough milk? If he's sleeping that much he may not be demanding too much.

Is he overdressed? Too warm?

If it doesn't change in a day or so, take him to the Dr.
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call your doc. sound scary, I guess it could be nothing, but I would call my Dr. wanna call my doc?

you know, my friend had that w her son and he was dehydrated. I had that with miri and she was just growing. you never know, but CALL

Happened with my son...woke him up to feed every 3 hours. B'h he was fine..How I long for those days when he was sleeping!

Posted: Tue, Apr 24 2007, 5:13 am Post subject:

sometimes they just need to sleep to grow. I remember my oldest slept the night at 6 weeks - 12 hours - I was so worried she was dehydrated etc, but really she was just older and could go longer at night without nursing.

Diamond Member Joined: Jan 19 2005 Posts: 2560

I had that with my premie. I just woke him up every 3 hrs no matter what. except for at night I let him sleep 4 hrs. I had to feed him to make him grow and get stronger.

I dont think that u should let him sleep as long as he wants at that age.!!!