My 10 week old baby won't nap!! Help!
My babe won't sleep any long than "cat naps" of about 15-30 mins, and this is only twice a day. She does this "fake sleep" several times a day where she gets heavy eyes, I rock her, place her in her crib and once I think shes asleep she opens her eyes and smiles. I'll even let her lay for 15-20 mins and she just cries or is making noise. Not sleeping!
I love her! But she has been like this since 4 weeks old. I cant get anything done ...I'm not drinking ANY caffeine/chocolate. She eats on a normal schedule, she is 75% in height and weight, she goes to bed at 8-9pm each night and sleeps till 2am and wakes up again at 6am. Its from 6am-10:30am she doesnt allow herself to rest. It worries me, because I know babies need their sleep to grow.
Anyone else ever gone through a situation like this?? Any suggestions?
Re: My 10 week old baby won't nap!! Help!
My LO is only 7 weeks old so I am not sure about a 10 week old, but DD started napping much better in her crib when I hung some light dampening curtains in her room... she also has the white noise maker and I use solid color crib sheets and removed the mobile so there is nothing for her to play with. That being said, there have been plenty of nap times where I had to lay down with her (and a good kindle book - that way I don't need a light for reading) and let her fall asleep on the boob.... we are still working on established 'nap' times, but she sleeps like a champ now.
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we're going thru the same thing with our 10 week old... he'll take cat naps during the day while i'm holding him, but as soon as i put him down he wakes up. then around 6pm he might zonk out for 2 or 3 hours out of exhaustion...
we've had a little luck yesterday and today with making his room extra dark. we also use white noise (but we always had been in the past).
he hates swaddles so that's not an option either...
I agree with pp and suggest darkening the room
good luck!
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This. Only way we could get DD to sleep last night.
Mine's the same way, and I think that might just be how she is. We follow a general eat-acivity-sleep schedule, and DD will usually sleep between every feeding, but that might only be for 15 min, and it might only be on my chest. If I feel like she's really in a deep part of her sleep cycle I sometimes put her in her swing, but she might wake up 2 min after i put her down.
That actually happened right now! I felt like she was asleep on my chest, put her down in the swing, she woke up 2 min later, and is now asleep again on my chest.
I think at this age you just do what you have to do. And don't get too worried about bad habits yet, babies can't be sleep trained until 3 or 4 months. GL!
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