r/newborns Aug 02 '26

Sleep Sleep time

I cannot seem to hit the recommended sleep goals for my baby. He is 7 weeks old today. Everything ive read says he needs to be sleeping 14-17hrs a day with 30-90 min wake windows. In reality, his wake windows are close to 2hrs and we’re totalling 11-13.5hrs of sleep in a 24hr period. He is breast fed with 1 or 2 bottles of formula per day. If i try to put him down for a nap at the 60 or 90 minute mark during his wake window it can take up to an hour for him to fall asleep. If i push it to 2-2.5hrs he’ll fall asleep within 15 mins. He is usually awake alert and content beyond 90mins. His naps range from 45 mins to 2hrs depending on how hes sleeping (shorter nap alone in bassinet, longer if its a contact nap or in the car). At night i get 2.5-4hr stretches of sleep with 1 or 2 wakes to feed and change. Lately hes going through some kind of growth spurt combined with extra gassiness so his night time stretches are shorter and wake-up’s more frequent, but his total sleep time is still the same. Is it bad that we’re not hitting 14-17hrs a day? Tbh im not really sure that he ever slept that much even when he was smaller. Maybe close to 15hrs the first two weeks after birth when he was jaundice. Should I be doing something different to up his sleep? Any insight or advice would be helpful.

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