Fighting Sleep

My LB fights sleep constantly. Every nap unless we are out in thr pram or in the car is a struggle. We have to hold him really tight with his arms tucked in while keeping his dummy in and ssshhh and rock quite aggressively for him to nod off, but he fusses and fights it everytime. Bed time is the same even after a calming routine. I'm using huckleberry sweet spot now to try and help but it's not any easier even after tracking wake windows and sweet spots. He also will not be put down in his his so we have to co-sleep to get any sleep and ge wakes every 2hrs for a feed. (BF). Is this normal? Can anyone offer any experiences please? It's been like this for 5 weeks now and is starting to affect me mentally.

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Keep following the app for a while. It took a few weeks for the sweetspots to work for my LO because he just wasn't used to it. He now naps better in the day following the sweetspots, but still takes more than the recommended number of naps, but gers the reccomended amount of day time sleep. He is starting to take fewer longer naps, but he's also been waking up crying recently so I think we're at the regression stage, which will change everything sleepwise anyway.

With the waking every 2 hours for a feed at night that is completely normal for BF babies. My LO will occasionally go 3 hours between feeds at night but mostly goes for 2 before he wake up for more. It's mostly because BM is easy for their stomachs to digest so they get hungry again before babies who are FF or being weaned and getting some calories from food.

I’ve been going through the same thing with my little boy for a few weeks now. He’ll be so tired, his eyes will be rolling to the back of his head yet he’ll still fight it. A couple of things that have definitely helped me as well as the huckleberry app is putting him in the carrier (he’ll often sleep within 5 mins of being put in it) and laid back breast feeding which for whatever reason my son just responds really well to. I’m not sure if he feels closer to me, just prefers being on his tummy or feels he has more freedom to move- he just loves it.

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