6 Weeks Sleep

For almost a week now, my LO is having a hard time sleeping. He fights his daytime night which screws up is nighttime sleep. I’m so exhausted. I can’t co sleep because we don’t have a safe sleeping environment on our bed since we have a soft memory foam bed and our dog sleeps with us. All he wants is to contact nap. My husband is going back to work and I’m losing all hope trying to settle down my baby.

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This happened to us too after a couple of grandparent stays at our house. Our LO got too used to contact napping all day with them, so when she was handed back to us for the evenings and overnights, she couldn’t sleep as deeply because she wasn’t being held. It took me a while to realize what was happening, and it took a week or so for us to get back to “normal” (putting it in quotes because it’s hard to know what normal is at six weeks). I thought I’d share because it’s something to consider, and I didn’t think that it would interrupt her own schedule/routine so much until I stepped back and had to consider all the reasons why.

Our 8 week old around 6 weeks started fighting day time naps and stayed awake for hours on end and then would scream her head off around 6 pm for hours from being over tired. She eventually stopped that but her sleep schedule always varies now on if she is going to nap or not. She also started breaking out of the swaddle so we moved to a sleep sac thing.

Can you wear him for his contact nap? Then you can still do things around the house without throwing off his nighttime sleep.

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