Night sleeping

9 week old baby who just doesn’t sleep well at night.

My daughter is waking every 45 mins and I just don’t no what to do anymore I’m so tired! I do a bedtime routine she has a larger feed in the evening and goes down. I’ve tried dream feeding a top up but she won’t take it.
I’ve tried swaddling she likes her arms out
We have the room dark
Have white noise on which we only play at night
I try settling her in her crib every time she wakes but she just screams
Any advice would be amazing for this tired Mumma !

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My baby was the exact same! You could try a galaxy light in your room my baby seems to love this rather than a dark room they sell them on Amazon or tik tok shop, it can help distract them until they fall asleep. Also a hot water bottle can help if you remove it as your about to put them in it can warm up the crib so they feel the warmth they would from you xx

I have a little nightlight and my baby loves it. She hated the darkness too it’s like she was waking up to check I was there as she couldn’t see anything as soon as I’d touch her she would drop back off but then I got the night light and she’s been fine since

Could it be her temperature she’s either cold or hot. I changed my daughter to a thicker tog swaddle and she sleeps a lot longer. I do a lower tog for the day time naps.

Even cosleeping (she will not go down in the next to me no matter what, trust me I’ve tried it all) we’ve had this for a couple weeks! I didn’t get more than 2.5 hours in a row for over a week and even that was rare.

Suddenly 2 nights ago it started getting better, she began with a four hour stint then every hour or two. Then last night she went almost 5 hours then almost 3!

There will be many ups and downs so just know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel (at some point or another)! My first started getting longer stints at 4 months but didn’t start sleeping through consistently, 11 hours straight every night, until 11 months.

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