Night wakings
I feel awful. When my baby wakes up in the night after he’s been put down in his next to me cot, I find myself feeling really cross. Particularly at the between 1 and 4/5am. I know he’s craving being close to me or genuinely hungry, needs a new nappy etc but getting up frequently in the night is killing me. He’s only two weeks old and I know he can’t help it but I really miss sleeping at night and having a life during the day. I find the transition to his bassinet/cot difficult and he wakes very quickly around half of the time.
He sleeps pretty well during the day usually and I try and do as much skin to skin as I can. In the day I can sometimes get him to stay asleep when I put him down but it’s so hard at night. I find myself fighting sleep with him in my arms.
My husband is amazing and will take him so I can sleep but I feel guilty because he needs to sleep too and he goes back to work on Tuesday so he needs to be rested.
What can I do?
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@Patrycja we are doing this and it definitely helps. My husband also puts one of his T-shirts over the mattress so it smells like him and not like me/milk.
Seems like ur having baby blues and it’s totally normal. Just know this is a short phase. It does seem daunting. But it will slowly pass. You are doing great!
We wrap him up in a blanket whilst feeding him. Then rock him as we lower him into the crib. Place a hand on his chest and slowly release it. Seems to work - most of the time!
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Something that has worked for us is we put a heat pad in the next ro me for like 2-5 mins when I'm feeding to heat up the cot so the baby doesn't feel a temp transition from your warm body to a cold mattress. Maybe that's worth a try?