When my milk came in three days later, he slept. He slept through everything. We would joke about how he was in denial about being born. He wanted to be back in his warm, dark environment. Getting this boy to nurse was very difficult.
Newborns can be very sleepy, which can make nursing a little more challenging.
But as long as your baby doesn t have any health problems that are causing his slumber state, there is no reason why you can t nurse him. For our son, the only way to really get him to be alert enough to nurse for a long period was to give him a warm bath. It s funny, but giving a bath is a usually a common way to relax babies, not wake them up. But for us, it worked. I also remember my mother constantly unwrapping Chris s feet from the swaddling blanket so that she could stroke them.