4 week old baby fighting sleep during the day.

Hi everyone, needing a bit of help or advice. My 4 week old is generally a good sleeper at night time and was during the day as well but the past week and today his wake windows are getting longer and you can tell his tired but just fights sleep so much. Even with feeds, tummy time to tide him out, car rides and walks etc not much seems to put him down except for contact naps but then I can’t seem to transfer him well without him instantly waking and demanding contact again. I love the contact naps but when it takes so long to put him down and then I can’t move for most of the time.

Example - wake window today was just over 4 hours, with a short 30 min car nap in between.

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I found what helped me, was if I put her down, if she stirred I’d wait a till she cried for longer than a minute before picking her back up, during that time I’d reassure here, I’m right here and she’s okay. if she kept going I’d pick her up, calm her, settle her and repeat. Eventually she’d stay down. She now goes down without much trying.

This is our girl too 😩 She is 7 weeks old and she fights sleep SO much during the day unless it’s a contact nap, she always has done this since day one… even if I transfer her successfully without waking her, the SECOND she stirs and realises she’s in her Moses basket she will immediately wake up and cry.

What’s weird is that she’s a really good overnight sleeper in her next to me cot when swaddled, but we try not to swaddle her during the day for naps as we want it to be part of her night time only routine!

We struggle with this too! I try and only have one contact nap a day. The afternoon nap and then pram or car in the morning but can still be a struggle! So also after any advice...I suppose it's good that they can already distinguish between day and night but can be hard!

My 7 week old is the exact same
Only thing that works is letting her fall into a deeper sleep on me but even so can take a few tries of up and down
It seems normal don’t worry x

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