Night time scaries

Does anyone else’s little one wake all through the night and settled all day ? My boy is only a week old but as soon as it hits 9pm he’s just so unsettled I’ve tried everything holding him for hours , white noise , talking to him and swaddling him ect I just find nothing I do settles him at night time but he’s so content in the day 🫶🏻

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Yes! My little one is almost 7 months old and still does this 😅

Yes feeling this and our little girl is also a week old! We had a better night last night and praying it wasn’t a fluke!

I feel you! My 2 week old is only just starting to settle for an hour at a time throughout the night

Mine is 2 weeks old, and is the exact same! I think it has something to do with the fact your milk producing hormones are higher at night, so instinctively the baby is awake to simulate milk production. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself to get through the nights 😂

My daughter is 10 days old and doing this! I think it’s normal for them to be more wakeful at nights she’s been constantly on the boob 9pm-z3am it’s exhausting 😭then sleeps for a few hours wakes agin at 6 ish for a feed then goes back to sleep and is lovely and settled during the day.

She seems to be doing it earlier tonight so I’m hoping it’ll mean I get to sleep a bit better tonight 🥲😅

Yep!

My baby is the opposite she is a heavy sleeper at night time thank god and throughout the day not so much, more of a lighter sleeper but i prefer this as we get 9/10 hours of sleep a day obvs waking her up 2 times for her night feeds she is 3 weeks!! Xx

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