Remember your routine before motherhood" Shower, breakfast, brush your teeth" Well, yeah, you kissed that goodbye, but by week five, a new routine has probably started setting in, even if you haven?t quite noticed it yet. With a few milestones under your belt and a few more coming your way soon (have you seen a smile yet"), this is also the week you might find yourself taking stock of reality over those expectations you had a long time ago before baby. Man, were you deluded! How can it possibly be so much better in many ways and so much harder, too" There are no words for what you know now compared to how little you knew back then. But there are 600 photos on your phone, so there?s that.
5 week-old development & milestones Learning night versus day

Your baby is sleeping longer at night?as many as four to six hours at once, if you?re lucky?and you?re having longer awake and alert phases during the day. Your baby might prefer to sleep for a few hours after eating and then wake up to play for an hour or two before getting hungry again. Or you may have a baby who wakes ravenous and then is happy to play on a full belly, having an hour or two of alert time before falling asleep mid-stimulation. Either way, the eat-play-sleep (or eat-sleep-play) routine is the start of a schedule that will last for the next few months, with each part of the routine gradually lengthening and your baby now awake and alert for up to 10 hours a day. Your night-time routine s...