She shouldn't be letting him sleep all day IMHO. "Sleep, eat, play" is the cycle even when they are as young as yours. The goal is to have your child sleeping through the night and it's not going to happen when the kid's sleeping the day away. You'll eventually start eliminating feedings and stretching the play/awake times to where the child is eating 4-5 times during the day and sleeping for 10 or so hours at night.
She shouldn't be letting him sleep all day IMHO. "Sleep, eat, play" is the cycle even when they are as young as yours. The goal is to have your child sleeping through the night and it's not going to happen when the kid's sleeping the day away. You'll eventually start eliminating feedings and stretching the play/awake times to where the child is eating 4-5 times during the day and sleeping for 10 or so hours at night.
Yeah that's pretty tough. My wife had a C-section also and it took her quite a long time to recover. I took off a week from work and then her Mom came the next week, plus my parents lived in town when Sarah was born so that really helped.
I started getting up for the middle of the night feedings (breast milk from that days pumping operation) so that my wife could get more sleep at night. Might want to consider doing something like that. She'll still be tired during the day though...
Our daughter is just over one now. We would wake her during the day to try to get her on a schedule that worked for both her AND us. As the months go on don't let the baby nap too long in to the afternoon, or he won't go to sleep at bedtime.
However, just make sure he's getting enough sleep to keep the him healthy. You can generally tell if they've had enough sleep by their level of crankiness.
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