Your Newborn Baby's Seventh Week: senses of vision, hearing and touch will develop

During 7th week of newborn baby’s hands should be mostly open now — ready to reach out to the world. Your baby's brain will grow about 5 centimeters during his/her first three months. Your baby is waiting up and alert for longer times.  

This week your baby force is able to track objects moving past the middle of her face now. That means he/she can watch as you slowly move a toy from one side of his/her field of view to the other. This week your baby may enjoy gentle music, be careful to avoid over-motivation. 

This week your baby’s senses of vision, hearing, and touch develop, and he's(she) increasingly able to gross in the world around him/her. Newborns sleep a lot — typically 14 to 18 hours a day during the first week and 12 to 16 hours a day by the time they're a month old. But most babies don't stay asleep for more than two to four hours at a time, day or night, during the first few weeks of life. 

At 6 to 8 weeks of age, most babies begin to sleep for shorter periods during the day and longer periods at night, though most continue to get up to feed during the night. For the first six to eight weeks, most babies aren't able to break up much longer than two hours at a time. If you wait longer than that to put your baby down, he/she may be overtired and have distress falling asleep. 

Your newborn baby's sleep and wake patterns will revolve around their daily needs of feeding, nappy changing, bathing and sleeping. 

The total amount of sleep your new baby will have in a 24 hour period will vary, ranging from 8 - 18 hours. Breastfeeding is a very different matter, and no two babies, or mothers, are alike. Some babies feed quickly, others feed slowly. The time a baby takes to breastfeed can range from 10 to 20 minutes, up to 45 minutes to an hour on one breast, with feeds ranging from 6 to 12 times in a 24 hour period in the early weeks. Newborn babies often fluctuate with positioning or gathering up the frequency of their feeds at different times of the day and night.

Your baby is attached correctly to the breast; it should not problem how long they feed for. The only factor that contributes to damaging the nipples is incorrect latching, not the length of time the baby is on the breast. A newborn baby's breathing is not always even and smooth.
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