Help ? ( 1week 3days old )

Anyone else little one refuse to sleep on their own and will wake up crying when put in a Moses basket or next to me crib ?
Any tips on what to do ?

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Following as I was just about to write this myself!! The moment my little boys body is in his next 2 me he is WIDE awake… pick him up and lay him next to me in bed and he is out cold?! I’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work 🥴

Yep. Our boy is 10 days and we have only managed to get 2x 2 hour stretches out of him lying on his own in his cot. The second we put him down, he’s wide awake 😫 tried everything!

It is very common (although exhausting) with my first my husband and I took turns to hold baby so we could get some sleep.

With this one if we wait 20 mins after he falls asleep before putting in the cot, we may get 1.5 or 2hrs
So one of us goes to sleep whilst the other one holds baby for 20 mins.

We also warm the cot before putting baby so he does not wake up with change of temperature.

I would say it does become easier once they start differentiating between day and night

I could’ve written this myself. My little girl hasn’t slept anywhere but mine or my husbands chest for this week (she’s a week old)

do you have the exact link? I have tried white noise feature on my night light but doesn’t work at all to help my little boy

@jody https://youtu.be/YNORx4ouKhw?feature=shared I can’t say it’ll work for your little one but worth a shot🙈

We had the same thing, that first week nearly broke us 🙈🤣 we’re almost 3 weeks in now and it does get better.

Few things that are working for us (so far 🤞🏼) warming the next to me crib before bed, I’ve been wearing the cot sheet in my top so it smells like me (thought this was an odd suggestion at first but seems to have worked a treat) white noise and we have a red light setting on our baby light.

Hang in there, We’ve got this! 💪🏻😂

We have had to pop a hot water bottle on the next to me crib for a bit before we pop out little one in just to warm the bit where he will lay down, I then use the hot water bottle on my stomach for some relief which is nice. Also we found using a baby sleeping bag has worked wonders xx

My little one was the same but I found putting his Moses basket inside the next to me crib helped as it was smaller. He has settled much better and he is a month old today.

thank you. Always willing to try anything

My baby didn’t settle but it was because he was hungry so we upped his food and gas got better and more settled

This is us. She’s 18 days old now. I just hold her/keep her in a carrier around the house and we cosleep. Each night I attempt to put her down but the minute she wakes up I call it done and pop her with us

Our first was very similar and we were more wary of cosleeping so rode out the storm as long as we could and took it in turns with him. I think it took him about 2 weeks to happily go down and sleep but it would only be on a nighttime

This is my little one too!
She struggles to sleep due to trapped wind - we are having a hospital appointment on Tuesday to treat her tongue tie so I’m hoping that helps with the wind.
She’s 2 weeks on Tuesday and I just let her sleep on me for the time being whilst she’s so uncomfortable with her tummy, the midwife said it’s normal and to just do what works so you can have some sleep too for the time being

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

Help! First time mum -

I have a 4 month old and now all of a sudden when he’s been asleep for 1hr30/2hrs he will wake up screaming (high pitched) I’ve tried winding him sometimes that helps, I’ve tried bicycle legs & bringing his knees up but that doesn’t seem to help but he brings his knees up himself sometimes but nothing happens. I’ve noticed since the 4 month mark he has started to struggle passing wind downwards! Any tips?

Help meeee

!!All advice welcome!! My 5 month old (nearly 6mo) is just not sleeping . Not for naps and not at night . She can’t connect her cycles . We started sleep regression at 3 months but in like how is this nearly been going on for a further 3 months . Like surely not . She has 10 min naps in crib ( which take so much effort ) and maybe 20/30 min naps in my arms/pushchair . She wakes minimum every hour at night with guaranteed false start 20 mins in . I combo feed. I breastfeed her until almost asleep then place her in the next to me crib give her the pacifier and put my hand on her cheek/face for 20 seconds and she drifts off . It’s not really getting her to sleep that’s the issue it’s she just won’t stay asleep . She doesn’t even need to feed much at night usually 1-2 breastfeeds . The rest is comfort wakes needing her pacifier or my hand on her cheek . I’ve looked into sleep associations and independent sleep and I broke the feed to sleep association and rocking and do bedside comforting instead for most wakes which has now lead to my hand being a sleep association on her face . I’m just so exhausted my husband is working mon-fri 9-9 and it’s just me . I haven’t had more than 4 hours in a row since her birth . I can’t get anything done during the day . She is so clingy and cries if I leave room /put her down etc. I love her so much but we both need rest . If anyone has any tips or a routine that could help PLEASE tell me I’ll try anything 🥲❤️❤️

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I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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