Contact sleeping at 6 weeks
Hi everyone,
My LO is six weeks, he’s been pretty hit and miss with going in his cot vs needing contact to sleep. Until about 4 ish weeks he was doing half and half, either sleeping well in the cot or Moses basket during the day but not at night, or vice versa. Last week or so I’m finding it hard to get him down at night. If and when it gets to 12-1am at night and he won’t settle, I’ll safely cosleep with him.
The last few days he won’t go in the cot at night at all, and hardly during the day. I know 6 weeks starts a period of extra fussiness. Last couple of days he was so fussy and upset. Today he’s been really calm but can’t be put down, can’t even be handed to someone else without waking, I’ve managed to get him to sleep and held him for ages but he woke up a few minutes after transferring to the cot.
Is anyone else finding this difficulty with getting baby into the cot, especially at night? I’d prefer not to cosleep, but I have a clingy toddler who doesn’t nap, so no chance of extra lie ins or naps during the day.
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Big struggle, i co sleep
have you tried with a pacifier?
Same with my little girl too, someone told me it mind be colic snd contact sleeping is working because it’s working as a pain reliever.
Try one of these - pop it in the cot / Moses basket for 10 mins before you put baby down to warm the mattress. We noticed a difference when we started doing this, I don’t think my baby liked going from my warm body to a cool mattress
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Babies hit their first developmental leap around this age and this is why they become more fussy/clingy. I had the same. You can download the app wonderweeks, it will tell you roughly when your baby is hitting another leap and when to expect a change in their normal behaviour. For me personally my baby started showing the signs a week or so before the app predicted but it’s good to give you a rough idea. One thing we found really helped is installing a night routine, bath around the similar time every night, red light & sound machine on for the last feed (we use a bottle) with no other sounds/lights in the room, swaddle, then bed. Now she’s starting to realise when she has a bath / the red light comes on it’s bed time💗
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Hi everyone,
My LO is six weeks, he’s been pretty hit and miss with going in his cot vs needing contact to sleep. Until about 4 ish weeks he was doing half and half, either sleeping well in the cot or Moses basket during the day but not at night, or vice versa. Last week or so I’m finding it hard to get him down at night. If and when it gets to 12-1am at night and he won’t settle, I’ll safely cosleep with him.
The last few days he won’t go in the cot at night at all, and hardly during the day. I know 6 weeks starts a period of extra fussiness. Last couple of days he was so fussy and upset. Today he’s been really calm but can’t be put down, can’t even be handed to someone else without waking, I’ve managed to get him to sleep and held him for ages but he woke up a few minutes after transferring to the cot.
Is anyone else finding this difficulty with getting baby into the cot, especially at night? I’d prefer not to cosleep, but I have a clingy toddler who doesn’t nap, so no chance of extra lie ins or naps during the day.
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