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Sleeping while breastfeeding
My boy baby is 9 days old. He peeing and pooping regular interval. But he looks always sleepy. We are struggling hard to wake him up. Even while breastfeeding , after few sucks he fallen into sleep. After few minutes he again sucking for milk. He continuously sleeping more than 4 hours. Even after that we are struggling to wake him up.One more note is, mother having lot of milk. Its overflowing.
We are worrying lot.
In the fist few weeks baby sleeps for almost 20 to 22 hours. Slowly by 1month they wake up more often . Wake up baby after 3 hours as prolonged interval between feeds will reduce their blood and brain glucose levels.
Next Steps
Tickle your baby’s feet or stroke behind his/ her ear . They will wake up .
Health Tips
In few weeks breasts will adjust to the amount of milk the baby needs . This overflowing will reduce as baby will start sucking more milk as he/ she grows in size. Just collect the expressed breast milk and keep in refrigerator and feed baby after bringing it room temperature whenever needed
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Feed 3 hrly, newborns usually sleep for long hrs....just wake him up and feed for atleast 10-15 mins at one time....if milk is overflowing u shd express milk and feed ur baby with spoon or throw away, otherwise it may cause breast engorgement n sometimes abscess
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