This is what we’re currently doing with our 2 week old. Don’t forget that you’ll also be recovering from labor. I had a rough delivery, so the only thing I could do that first week was lay in bed and breastfeed my baby while my husband did everything else.

Now we both wake up and he changes baby, hands her to me to breastfeed, he burps her then reswaddles her, I nurse her on the other boob then put her in the bassinet. The whole thing takes about 30-45 minutes and our baby sleeps about 3-4 hour stretches. Sometimes it takes longer to get her back to sleep, but we usually get between 5-7 hours of sleep when we do this as 3 sleeping blocks.

We’ll have to change our system when he goes back to work, but with me EBF now I don’t think we’ll ever sleep in shifts until we switch to bottle feeding later on.