My child is 5 days old. she is sleeping and not waking for breastfeed or waking after 4,5 hours to take next feed. while taking breast feeds also, she is talking it hardly for 5 min n falling asleep. I tickled her, gave massage on d ears but still she is falling asleep while taking feed. Any suggestions what can be done?

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ExpertDr Disha PatelAyurvedic Physician1 Year ago

A. yes, its very common, as newborn do sleeps a lot. u shold keep doing all efforts to wake him fir feeding. and it is advice to feed in every 2 hours

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