Overfeeding: If newborns get more milk than they need, they may sleep more as their body processes the excess. Exhaustion: A consistently overtired baby may sleep more to catch up on sleep.
When fed too much, a baby may also swallow air. This can produce gas, increase discomfort in the belly, and lead to crying. An overfed baby also may spit up more than usual and have loose stools. Although crying from discomfort is not colic, it can make crying more frequent and more intense in an already colicky baby.
CCK makes your baby feel full and sleepy and it is released in your babies gut as soon as they start sucking. Younger babies generally have higher concentrations of CCK which can make it harder to keep them awake during a feed.
A child who is sleeping more and eating less could mean a few things. Frequent growth spurts require additional sleep. This is because their bodies are fundamentally transforming from the inside out, so their little bones are exerting extra energy and need more rest. Another reason could be teething.
Overeating and weight gain can affect how well and how much sleep you get. Eating too much late at night can lead to bloating and physical discomfort that may prevent you falling and staying asleep.
Overeating causes the stomach to expand beyond its normal size to adjust to the large amount of food. The expanded stomach pushes against other organs, making you uncomfortable. This discomfort can take the form of feeling tired, sluggish or drowsy. Your clothes also may feel tight, too.
Listlessness or Lethargy
Lethargy may be a sign of infection or other conditions such as low blood sugar. Talk with your baby's doctor if your infant becomes lethargic or isn't as active.
Just before and during a growth spurt, your baby may sleep more than usual. Waking up less at night or taking longer naps may be signs that she's channeling her energy into growing. One small study suggested that during a growth spurt, babies may sleep up to four and half hours more than usual over one or two days.
One of the biggest culprits for an extra sleepy baby who doesn't want to eat as much is teething. If you haven't noticed any growth spurt signs from your baby and they're acting fussy and irritable, it's highly likely that your baby is having teething discomfort that's affecting their normal sleeping and eating habits.
Your baby is extra sleepy due to a growth spurt.
Growth spurts are typically the number-one reason a baby or toddler suddenly starts taking extra-long naps and sleeping later in the morning. This is especially true for newborns.
Calls/Care Mistakes
Leaving the Digimon asleep without a blanket for 10 minutes will result in 1 care mistake. Injury/Overfeeding/Sleep Disturbance are NOT care mistakes. Whenever a care mistake is about to happen, the Call Icon (the last icon) lights up and is accompanied with a beeping sound.
Newborn babies have an innate ability to regulate their hunger and therefore stop eating when they are full. This is true for both breastfed and bottle-fed babies.
Your baby will go through many growth spurts in the first year. They can cause your baby to nurse longer and more often. These growth spurts typically happen when your baby is around 2-3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months old. But your baby's growth spurts may not happen at these exact times.
Increased sleeping
This may be due to medication, exhaustion, or that the infant is feeding better and is more satisfied. Sleep may also act as a coping mechanism for discomfort.
So in the first few weeks of life, if an infant is sleeping a lot, it's hard to wake them up, and when baby is awake they are lethargic, sluggish, and having a hard time eating, it's crucial to touch base with your doctor, Dr. Ortiz says.
As a guide, many babies sleep 14-20 hours a day in the first weeks. By 3 months many are settled into a pattern of longer sleep times – perhaps 4 to 5 hours at night. When a baby sleeps about 5 hours straight, this is considered 'sleeping through the night'.
Breastfed babies feed often, about every 2–3 hours. Bottle-fed babies tend to feed less often, about every 3–4 hours. Newborns who sleep for longer stretches should be awakened to feed. Wake your baby every 3–4 hours to eat until he or she shows good weight gain, which usually happens within the first couple of weeks.
Bottle-fed babies are at increased risk of overfeeding because it's harder for a baby to control the flow of milk and easier to pressure a baby to feed from a bottle compared to breastfeeding.
It is almost impossible to overfeed an infant while breastfeeding. Babies have a self-regulation system that tells them to eat when they're hungry, and to stop when they're full. Babies will tell you that they're full or hungry by turning towards the nipple (begging for more), or by turning away to signal they're full.
Short term overfeeding also resulted in an increase in RER and urinary nitrogen excretion, suggesting an increase in carbohydrate and protein oxidation and a decrease in fat oxidation in both OP and OR subjects as compared to levels observed during the eucaloric diet phase.