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is she sleeping at night as well? do you have to wake her up to feed her, or does she wake up to eat herself? when she is awake is she alert or still groggy?

my lo worked out her schedule on her own - I just tried to follow her cues as best I could. she did it around 9 ish weeks?

My theory is that I think as you 'do' more stuff in the day, the baby understands that as the interesting time to be awake. And other than that, let the baby do what it needs to do and then when it does get a routine of its own, try to support that routine to be as consistent as possible. But I think the routine will take a couple months to start IMO.

For at least 2 weeks my babe would only be awake for what seemed like 20 minutes per day. Eventually he started having longer stretches of awake time. I write down in my log book when he is awake to try to get the pattern. He is 5 weeks and he now seems to have a 2-awake-periods pattern, at roughly the same time, but even still, every few days he changes that. It scares me when its different, but he seems to be just fine on those off days, so I'm trying to not worry.

Good luck!

PS. I'm sure light/dark is important too, asI know that the sleep/wake hormones are afected by that, so maybe try to mke it light in day and dark at night.

@Mrsdaredevil: I think it's funny how as parents we just can't help but worry! I got one day where all LO did was sleep, eat, poop then repeat at night. I was ecstatic!!!!

My LO slept all day as well. It wasn't until he was about 6 weeks old that he started working himself into a pattern, he would stay up for about 1.5-2 hours at a time.

Don't worry about getting her in a schedule, they choose their own schedule at this age so it'd most likely be a waste of energy! If she wants to sleep, go ahead and let her sleep

oh, and do make sure, like PP's said, to differentiate day and night. When LO gets up in the morning, we go to his changing table, open the curtains and say lots of "good mornings", sing songs and get excited for the day. It's helped him learn that this is our morning routine. For naps and night time the curtains are closed and he's swaddle so he seems to know the difference pretty well.

my first did that, she settled into 2-5 hour long naps and still slept at. She just needed more sleep than average, still does!