The saying goes that babies, when they are born, eat and sleep. It is a very famous saying that is quite real, because in reality what they do almost all day is eating and sleeping, but that usually leads to equivocation, because many parents believe they eat like them, every 3-4 hours (or more) and then just sleep, respecting the nights.
The reality is not that, of course, because babies eat and sleep, but they do it many times, waking up very often to eat, especially from the first week.
The first days, perhaps because they are in the phase of adaptation to the new world, perhaps because they still do not need much wakefulness, they sleep more than they eat. They take the chest and go to sleep immediately because they are sleepy, almost as if they get tired of breastfeeding or do not have enough strength.
Then, from the week, more or less, they begin to be more awake, they begin to eat better and they begin to demand more food. At that time it happens that parents realize that something has happened, because the baby has a bad night that "pa what", asking at all hours ("I'm hungry, just like a few days ago, but now I prefer to ask to eat hungry") and making parents believe that they have gas, colic or go to know what.
Then the next day everyone is asked if they can be colic, if it is normal, what they can give him, if the mother is running out of milk, if they will have to run to buy artificial milk at the pharmacy that night or if they will have done well by giving you a bottle (if they have already given it to you).
The reality is that it is usually a one-night thing, at most two, when the baby demands more for the mother to make more milk or feed her more often (the bottle sometimes also does it, because they want more food and more often). That is why parents are often told that for babies there is also the saying that "Anybody has a bad day" and that soon the thing remits, not to the point of when he was born, that he slept like a blessed, but yes to the point of sleeping about 2-3 hours between take and take, or maybe less, because many suck every hour and a half, but At least they don't spend the night crying.
Many parents expect a solution to the problem, because they expect and want everything to return to the "as before", but no, it is not usual because babies do not usually do that, but eat often, and that day or those two days, more those who will come later, sure there will be and whose motive is undetermined (air, gas, a fart pierced, a poop that has not wanted to leave, the family that has wanted to touch and catch the baby all the same day, ...) , serve to give a reality cure to parents, who will soon understand that having a baby is not giving birth to you, but the hardest starts at that moment, when you have to take care of him, feed him, hug him, rock him, catch him, not stress him, calm him down, sleep him, etc., because that's what they need at all times.
