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12-22-2012 at 12:32 PM
StephRN23
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Day/Night confusion

K started off great, sleeping in 2-3 hour spurts pretty mich all day and night. Now that she is older and has more awake time, she chooses to be awake at night. She usually is most alert starting around 8pm and stays that way until about 2 am. Since 3 this morning, she has been going 3-4 hours without waking up. I've tried everything I can think of, keeping lights and Tv on during the day and making a quiet environment at night. She is 3 weeks old, is this just a phase? Is she old enough to be "taught" the difference? I'm trying to bother her to keep her awake during the day, but because she sleeps so little at night, she is obviously tired. And so am I, so I take advantage of her day naps.
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12-22-2012 at 4:20 PM
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She is too young to wake up IMO. I would kist sleep when the baby sleeps and continue what you're doing. Make sure it's really dark at night and don't be engaging. Also only do her diapers at might if she pooped. Eventually she will get it.
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12-22-2012 at 5:01 PM
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You can absolutely try to teach day vs night now. 

You need to keep an active environment during the day, open curtains keep it noisy. Feed every 2-3 hours during the day. 

Try to feed as quickly as possible at night without turning on a lot of lights.  

I think around 3-4 months is when melatonin starts in and changes sleep patterns.  
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12-22-2012 at 6:41 PM
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I would just sleep when she sleeps. But I do think they can be "taught" at this age. At 3 weeks I started "training" my LO, and now she is 7 weeks old and sleeps 7.5 hours at night in one stretch. 

During the day I would wake her up and do tummy time for a while, that kept her awake for a while. I'd take her on walks and go places which seemed to keep her awake.

Along with that I would do a nighttime routine. Worked for us! 
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12-22-2012 at 8:20 PM
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I agree with PP and what you've been doing. It can definitely be taught. With both of my kids we just made conscious efforts really early to make a nighttime routine and stick with it, along with being noisy and bright during the day and dark and quiet at night. We also use white noise at bedtime only.
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