3 weeks baby's sleeping and eating pattern

My 3 weeks old baby seems to have changed his eating and sleeping pattern all the sudden. He used to eat every 3 hours then sleep through to the next feed. 2 days ago we have use bottles for his night feed (with my milk), 2.5oz each time, now he's waking up almost every 2hrs wanting to be fed and in the past 2 days he stays awake from 7am - almost noon. Between 7a, - noon, if we pick him up or put him on my breast he then falls asleep deeply. But when we put him in his bed then he wakes up right away (although not very fussy). So I have just let him lay in his bed waiting for him to fall asleep by himself (he doesn't fall asleep until almost noon when he is very tired!). In between 7am - noon I feed him at 7am then 10am. Each breast for about 10 min (or 15 min total) and change his diapers few times if it gets dirty.


After 12 noon then he wakes up every 2 - 3 hours then we give him bottles at 11pm (or midnight depending when he wakes up), then 2:30am. I feed him with my breast again at 5ish am (or whenever he wakes up after his 2:30am feed).


Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to help him to have a more routine sleeping and eating pattern? Or is it too early to worry about giving him a routine?!


Thanks in advance for your advises/tips or just share your experiences.

It's all normal. Expect many sudden changes in the first 3-6 months.


Around 6-12 weeks you can slowly start trying to influence your child's routine. The later the easier it is to affect. Increase/decrease size of feeds and move feeds (all very slowly) to do so.

Babies generally tend to have growth spurts at 3, 6 ,12. 16,and 20 weeks and as a result they tend to want to feed more frequently and for longer .A breastfed baby needs 8-12 feeds per day for many weeks and by putting a young baby on a schedule may interfer with the baby getting adequate amounts of breast milk neccesary for his/her growth . Lactation also takes up to 6 weeks to become fully established .



You would be most welcome to bring baby in to discuss this in more detail .





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