What does your day look like?

Hello, I'm a FTM to a 6 week old baby boy 💙

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I've not been around babies much, so I'm learning to be a parent as I go. I was wondering if what I'm doing is fine, or if there are some things I should be doing that I don't do right now.

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Here is how my day looks:

Baby wakes up at 1-2am, breastfeed and put back to sleep.

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Baby wakes up at 5-6am, breastfeed and try to put back to sleep. Sometimes works (we both sleep til 8-9am), sometimes doesn't and I take the baby to the living room. We chat a little, the baby might sleep, or is having cramps and I try to console him.

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We feed every 2-3 hours, after each feed I will try to put baby to sleep. Sometimes I put him in his bassinet so that I can make myself lunch or clean up a little bit. He usually doesn't fall asleep in there by himself, but he will entertain himself with the mobile until he starts crying to be picked up. If he's awake, I will always try to play with him or talk to him and engage with him. But I always try to get him to sleep at least an hour between feeds.

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He has a feed around 6-7 pm, getting him to sleep after this is very difficult. He's also usually very cranky and crying a lot at this time so we just tried to console him or do bicycles for example to relieve his pain.

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His last feed is around 8-9pm, where we swaddle him and we put him to sleep directly after the feed and he sleeps until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning.

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We don't necessarily do tummy time because right now he's quite cranky and he doesn't like being on his belly. He will cry within 20 seconds, but he does spend a lot of time on our chest where he can exercise his neck in a different form of tummy time.

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Is there anything I'm missing or anything I should already be doing? What does your schedule look like?

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Any recommendations or advice welcome.

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Thanks in advance!