Keeping baby happy while awake
Justtee33
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My LO is 6 weeks is just now starting to have longer stretches of time between wake and sleep. But, he doesn't want to do anything but nurse or use my breast as a pacifier the whole time. It's like he's not tired enough to go to sleep but eventually he will if he keeps sucking and laying in my arms. I try to put him in the bouncy chair, swing, work in some tummy time and other ways of playing with him but he's not having any of that for more than a few minutes. I end up just sitting, nipple in his mouth, waiting for him to sleep.
Now, he may be cluster feeding...but my instinct says not really. He does that a little in the evening. He may just want to be close and nurtured...and that's fine and I don't want to rush him through this time but UGH! I feel like he's just kind of a grumpy baby at times... How are you keeping a happy baby awake? Any constructive help is appreciated! Thanks mamas!
Re: Keeping baby happy while awake
My baby is 5 weeks old today so our little ones are about the same age. My son is starting to stay more awake too. He doesn't have the tolerance to do anyone one thing for too long so I try to rotate him around with different things.
Some of his favorite things to do are: lay on a blanket looking around, sit/lay on his boppy (I put a blanket balled up in the hole and then prop him on top of it kinda laying across it), looking at some brightly-colored toys that I hold over him, sitting in his bouncer listening to the music and watching the little animals rotate over his head, laying anywhere looking at light (from the window or just the light overhead in the room), leaning up on my chest while I'm sitting - kissing him, signing to him, playing with his arms and legs, etc.
Your little one might just be extra needy for some reason. You might try to introduce some of these other things in between and see how they go. Just for little bits of time though. Good luck!
This!
My LO is up a lot more often now too. She is pretty fussy when I am not holding her. Sometimes she is fine laying under her play mat for a while and other times she wants nothing to do with it. We have a swinging chair for her and she doesn't seem to really like that. She is so little so its hard for her to sit in a little chair because she always seems to fall down and get uncomfortable. I just keep talking to her and moving her around to play with different things. She seems to really like looking at anything above her like the toys that hang from her play mat.
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