Takes forever to rock baby to sleep

christinav83

it never took me almost an hour to rock my 6 week old baby to sleep until now. And when I finally have her asleep and transfer her to either he crib or mommaroo (motion not on) she wakes up within 5min. What is wrong with her. Why won't she sleep??

junebugjam

Nothing is wrong, my baby is very similar. Babies want to be held, but it's hard when you need to sleep too. I've found if my LO is swaddled, it's much easier to lay him down without him waking.

StephanieLBerg

junebugjam said:

Nothing is wrong, my baby is very similar. Babies want to be held, but it's hard when you need to sleep too. I've found if my LO is swaddled, it's much easier to lay him down without him waking.

This! So much this! Swaddling has saved me and my hubby most nights!

mommaa1615

Swaddling, music, & shhhhhing works for me

loriann091

Nothing is wrong! There's a good chance she is going through a growth spurt, too. My DD struggled with sleeping between weeks 5-7 and is now back to it! She also had weird eating patterns during that time. One thing that helped was keeping her active during the day so she'd sleep better at night. Even if she sleeps in her stroller while I walk, it's not a deep enough sleep so she ended up very tired when I rocked her for bed. Also, having a routine! Every night at 7 I give her a bath, put on lotion and pajamas, DH gives her a bottle (his one a day), and rocks her to sleep swaddled in the dark. We only do this process right before bed, and so far it's worked like a charm. Good luck! Be patient with her, she's learning too

katiebranz

We just rocked for a couple of hours here.... Just babies being babies. It'll get better!

amandanicboone

I usually put my baby down a little before she falls asleep. I do the same routine every night with diaper change, swaddle, one more feeding, burping and cuddling then laying her down. During the feeding is when I turn on white noise - I actually use iTunes Radio for this haha. Now she doesn't even fuss when I lay her down and she sleeps all night at 7 weeks! If she does fuss I try not to pick her up, I will rub her head to see if that calms her down enough before picking her up.

mama5kids

Try not to rock her all the way to sleep and put baby down when they are sleepy but still awake so they learn to soothe themselves to sleep.... If baby gets used to bein rocked to sleep she will never learn to soothe herself- something that is going to be useful in the future! I agree with post above- try setting a routine so baby learns it's bedtime- like white noise, a baby massage etc

Alyllyra

Remember that everything is a phase. It's hard while it's happening but it will pass.