So, my 1 month old baby is mostly sleeping during the day. But her deep sleep is from morning to midday. The last week, we have been having troubles with her sleeping normally at night and she's been uncomfortable and on/off crying loud as well, which sometimes I am unsure if she's just tired or colic. As a first time mum with only husband as my support, IDK what to do. Like last night, she was crying and sleeping from around 11pm to 4am on/off. She sleeps for like 15mins then cry for almost an hour and repeat. At first, we tried burping her and she was not doing it. She managed to burp but then still cried as if she's uncomfortable.
Having PPD&A also did not help. Everyday I only get 3-4 of sleep (interrupted) they said sleep when the baby sleeps but I just can't as when she's sleeping in the morning, that's when my mind starts thinking about a lot of things.
When will the sleeping get better? 🥺 I want to be a happy and jolly mum for her but doing it tired and sleepless is hard. 😞
**Also, what do I do to lessen her grunts during sleep? sometimes she sounds like she's wheezing and grunting and wakes me up at night. HV said it's normal but just keeps me up and just makes me watch her sleep.
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I feel like the bad guy here but sleeping doesn't improve for least the 1st year you won't get her on a better schedule for at least till 6 months old. As for the grunting that's just pre programmed into all newborns she's alright it'll stop around momth 3 when she's not a newborn. Welcome to motherhood it does improve but that first year sleep is elusive

So you've said her deep sleep is from morning to midday is that a solid block of sleep?
If so wake baby from the nap after a couple of hours to have a wake window, feed, change etc. Do naps in bright noisy rooms.

1 month is super early, and to put a downer on things you’ve got at least another 8 weeks before anything improves.
It’s completely normal for baby to sleep for a short amount of time at that age and wake again for a feed. I was super lucky with my girl that she began sleeping longer stretches BUT that wasn’t until the 3-4 month mark and a lot of mums reported their little one having super frequent wake ups waaaay beyond this.
If you want to message me for more in depth convo, feel free - but honestly every baby is different and you can only find what works for you baby - again 1 month is superrrr early for any sort of routine IMO xx

Eh I don't agree with any of the above. If your 1 month old has days and nights mixed up, you can definitely fix that
How long is the stretch in the morning? You want to cap that at 2 hours then wake baby and keep her awake. Stick her in the bath if you have to. She may cry because she wants to be asleep but keep her awake at least 40 mins before you let her go back to sleep.
Have you tracked her sleep?
How many hours of day sleep does she get?

There is no 'normal' at 1 month. You're very much in the newborn trenches and things will change constantly over the next few months (and even years!) when it comes to sleep so I advise you to just go with the flow and do whatever gets everyone in the family the most sleep.

My son was like that until he was about 3/4 months it gets better. You just have to be consistent with routine. What worked for me is during the day I would be up moving around with plenty of light in the house so he knew it was morning time. Started to interact with him more to try to keep him awake a little more and stayed very consistent with bath time at 1/2 months he had bath time around 6:30 he then started to sleep from 7:30 until about 11 at night time I would keep it dark in the room and give bottle burp change n back to sleep with just the tv playing so he knew if was night time.

I sleep training needed here.
But day and night schedule can be learned.
Start by introducing a wake up time, then daylight

You cant "just get it right" when baby is so little. Its so normal mumma for baby not to have a sleep schedule. Honestly best thing you can do is consider cosleeping. Baby wants to be with you, they still think they are part of you and do not understand that they are there own little person yet.