3 Week Old Staying up for Hours at a Time.. Is This Ok?

Anyone ever tell you that average is completely abnormal? :)

That said - keep a journal of when he is sleeping. You'll probably find that he is, in fact, getting his 16 hours or so - just in bigger chunks than most babies his age. As long as his blood sugars at the hospital and his metabolic tests were normal, I wouldn't sweat it any more than I did the baby that only slept - I swear - an hour and 20 minutes, ate for 15 minutes, and slept another hour and 20. :)

S.

As long as there doesn't seem like anything is physically wrong then you shouldn't worry about it.

Hope this finds you and your baby well. Does he cry alot? If he is it might be colic, if not don't worry. It just means he is very alert. All babies are very different, I'm on my third and none of them were alike. One went to sleep at 6p.m. and woke at 9a.m. I was really lucky with her cause the others were up or did not sleep through the night until 5 years old. So if he seems okay thank your lucky stars!

Every kid is different. My son slept all night at 2 weeks and still takes great naps at 3 years. My 8 month daughter fights naps with a singular passion, but sleeps all night. She's just horribly social and hates to miss anything. She was also holding her head up and grabbing things from about 8 hours old. Now she's almost walking to keep up with brother. What is normal? I don't know I've never seen it.