Sleepy Baby

The pediatrician says that newborns sleep 18-21 hours a day. It's too bad that Samantha really does all that sleeping DURING THE DAY and mostly wide eyed at night. I get a good 3-hour stretch at night- with the help of Matt and my mom staying up with her while I sleep; then it's downhill from there. She usually just fusses and fusses and doesn't go back to sleep. I don't think she likes to be swaddled, doesn't like the bassinet, doesn't like the sound machine- Errrg. But when morning comes, we get another 3-hour stretch of sleep. Matt started back at work yesterday, so he's been on the couch to get some zzz's, but that doesn't help him too much.  Luckily, it's the weekend and today we are starting to follow the doc's advice to keep her awake and fed during the day, so she's sleepy and full at night. She says to wake her every 2.5 hours to eat and keep her awake some and then there's 5 minutes of tummy time, 5 times a day. She's doing very well today and has been up a lot and feeding like every 1- 1.5 hours. Wish us luck -sigh-

2 weeks old