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Day/Night confusion
Anyone dealth with a newborn who slept better during the day and was cranky in the middle of the night? If so, how did you deal with it?
DS sleeps like a champ during the day but when he gets up for a bottle in the middle of the night we are up for at least two hours because after he eats he will not fall asleep and most of the time does a lot of crying.
I'm just not use to this as with DD she would get up for a bottle and I'd be up for a half of an hour at the most to change her diaper, feed her and put her back to bed.
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Re: Day/Night confusion
How old is your baby? My DD is now 3 weeks, and I am hitting that time. Yesterday I was up with her for about 4 hours, she was nursing, then hiccups, then she was up for about 2 hours just hanging out. I honestly don't think it's a day/night thing but a growth spurt, which hits at 3 and again at 6 weeks. The first 2 weeks were great, she just slept all the time, now she is up at night. Honestly, she is soooo much easier than DD #1 who would cry all day and night, so this is "easy" for me.
Some things I do that other probably wouldn't, is I took DD to be with me last night, it was the only I could sleep. If she was awake, she was in my arms and not crying. I also make sure she has no gas, which seems to make things worse, so I used gas drops before bed.
DS will be three weeks old tomorrow. I hope it is just a quick phase as he woke up DD twice last night! I wouldn't mind if he was just "awake" but he is just fussy.
Everything that I read online says to keep him in a dark room but honestly I take him downstairs and watch tv usually alternating between rocking him or walking with him until he calms down and falls asleep.
Josie didn't start going to bed before 2 AM until 7 weeks. I just adapted my sleeping schedule to her and we didn't get out of bed until 10 AM. I bedshare so it was a lot easier to deal with her nursing late at night. We'd stay out in the living room until she fell asleep and a lot of times I'd sleep on the couch and she'd be in the pack and play. This was the one aspect of the first weeks I had no clue about, I wish someone would have told me this was so common.
There really isn't much you can do to reverse it, I tried all the tricks. I tried putting her in front of the window in the early AM too (the light is supposed to help reverse it) but I literally just tried to push her back an hour every few days. Just hang in there Mama! Soon he'll be sleeping earlier.
Francesca Pearl is here! Josephine Hope is almost 3!
We did this w/ DD her first 2ish weeks. It was the only way to stay sane.
I do thnk the gas has alot to do w/ it too and once we started giving DD gas drops all the time as a preventive measure, her sleep improved.