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First time mums

Sleep..

My little girl is just over 5 weeks old (she was 2.5 weeks early), and hasn’t done longer than 2 hours of sleep in her next to me/moses. She usually does 1-1.5 hrs at a time, and has done 2 once or twice. She wakes up crying for a feed (breastfed), feeds for 10 minutes or so and then may go down for another hour and the cycle continues. We use white noise & a love to dream swaddle. I’ve tried the worn clothes/muslin/used breast pads in the crib. Health visitor advised against warming up the crib, but as she goes down fine I don’t think this would help, it’s the staying asleep! I know their sleep cycles are 60 minutes so this type of waking isn’t uncommon at her age, but I see people getting 2-4 hour stretches etc and makes me wonder if I’m going wrong somewhere! We do nightly bath time now (no soap) and a little baby massage before bed which she really loves. She’s pretty content and happy most of the time, we’ve ordered some bottles to try and express some milk so dad can do a night feed to give me a slightly longer stretch of sleep, but would be grateful for any advice / tips, or is it just a case of perseverance? 😅 I do usually end up bringing her into bed with me halfway through the night and cosleeping to get some sleep but this is still very broken.

Signed, very tired Mumma 😴