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March 2011 Moms
RP: Baby awake at night/ Sleeping during day
Hi all, LO is almost 4 weeks old and I'm finding that during the day she sleeps so easily, but at night it's a whole other story. Around her last feeding before bed, I bring her upstairs (usually between 10-11:30) and BF her. After that, she seems wide awake, even though we're in the bedroom, lights are off, sound machine on,etc. I sometimes have to wake her to feed her that last feeding when I'm going to bed, and I'm wondering if at that point I should just let her sleep rather than waking her up to feed. I also try to get her to sleep with BF, but at that time, it's not working. Last night, she literally sat in her RNP for over an hour+ just eyes wide open and making sounds, not even close to sleeping. Luckily, she wasn't hysterically crying, but still would not go to sleep. I tried rocking her in the RNP, but eventually I was falling asleep myself! I also resorted to a pacifier, which helped her close her eyes, but then the second it fell out, she would be wide awake and crying. Then it happened again at her 5 AM feeding, when she stayed up forever! Any tips? Right now, she's in our room in the RNP. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! XOXO
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Re: RP: Baby awake at night/ Sleeping during day
At two weeks they're still figuring out night/day - what I did was whenever I fed Dayne at night I kept it as dark as possible, I didn't speak to him, didn't turn the TV on, kept it very quiet. I made it as boring as possible.
During the day I opened all the shades, didn't keep it quiet even when he was napping, kept him very entertained. I made it as active as I could.
He figured out the difference around week three.
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