Fighting sleep

Any tips for a newborn baby that is fighting his sleep? I’m finding that from when my baby wakes up for his first morning feed he then won’t settle back down for several hours and fights going back to sleep. You’ll think he’s drifted off and then PING eyes wide open again, he’s then getting himself very overtired. He’s only 17 days old and he’s going 3-4 hours fighting his sleep, whatever we try doesn’t seem to work. Any tips of tricks to try are please welcomed!

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Swaddle, dark room, white noise. Keep an eye on how long he’s awake for so he’s not overtired but just try not to worry, he’ll fall asleep eventually ❤️

If you're wanting to put them down then we stretched a tshirt over the cot mattress that one of us wore the day before so they had our smell, warmed the mattress first, find some low pitched quiet music (our son would fall asleep to a country singer with a low voice, one of his quieter albums!), try max three times to put down then give up until next time or give a contact nap otherwise I'd drive myself mad trying - not necessarily all at once but some things that worked for us! X

Put them in a carrier and do some hoovering. The mixture of movement and white noise from things like hoover, washing machine, etc worked well for us. Our LO just didn't want to be put down.

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