Baby sleep.. 👎🏼

I understand that it’s hard; however, if you’re going to co-sleep, absolutely do not do it on the couch. Way more babies die from sleeping on couches than they do on beds.

Is your spouse helping with any of the night feeding? Or do you have family that can help? You need to get at least a four hour stretch.

is it okay to sleep for four hours straight if you're exclusively breastfeeding? I thought we had to either nurse or pump every two hours even at night? So I've been only getting like an hour of sleep at a time for a total of 2-3 nonconsecutive hours at night pretty much

I meant it as I sleep on the couch alone away from my baby because I can’t sleep near her 🥲 her active sleep keeps me up and I’m an extremely light sleeper. Since I EBF I haven’t been able to get any help during the nights.

getting four hours is what keeps you as a safe caretaker.

My supply is established, so I sleep four hours and don’t wake my baby if she sleeps through the four hour window. Once it’s daytime she eats every 2-3 hours.

I would recommend pumping so that you have some breast milk available for your husband to help you. It’s important that you both get four hours of uninterrupted sleep in a twenty four hour period, that means that you need to switch off and take turns if you baby isn’t sleeping a four hour stretch yet.

I use the momcozy pump on the side i’m not feeding her on, which may be covered by your insurance. the doctor browns bottle with the pink insert is a great bottle to introduce that won’t disturb your breastfeeding . the bottle is designed to help! as my baby is getting bigger you can go up a insert color. you should look into it.

Baby’s have to learn to put themselves to sleep. We used Taking Cara Babies newborn course to learn sleep principles. Co-sleeping is often not necessary when babies learn how to put themselves to sleep over time. We started with putting her down drowsy, but awake, for 1 nap a day. It was hard at first but there were tricks via our sleeping course that we learned how to help her self soothe. Now we put her down awake for every single sleep and she puts herself to sleep. Cannot recommend this course enough!

six week old baby is too young to self soothe or even establish a sleep schedule unfortunately.

When my LO struggles to sleep, we double-check our baby checklist (hungry, diaper, too hot/cold, etc.) and set a timer for 10 minutes. We then see if she can self soothe or fall asleep on her own. She will sometimes suck on her fingers or fist to fall asleep. If she is still crying the. We pick her up, go through the checklist again, rock her for a bit, and do it again. She just turned 2 months and is able to self soothe (to a degree) when waking and sleeping!

mine doesn’t cry but she wakes herself up and stays up and starts looking around and playing instead of sleeping 😅 like girl go to sleep! There’s nothing I can do at that point 😂

self soothe was the wrong choice of words! Sorry! Meant that the sleeping course teaches you principles to help babies fall asleep on their own without rocking to sleep. You still intervene - no ‘cry it out’ method involved…but you help them drift off to sleep on their own. Can’t recommend the course enough!