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Fighting sleep/light sleeper.

whitneyshaywhitneyshay member
in May 2014 Moms
My babe has been up since 7 am for the day and I'm still working on laying her down for a good nap. Normally when she naps it's about 2 hours. However today and recently she has begun to fight sleep..... It's a process to lay her down. It takes atleast An hour of rocking/feeding/walking her around to get her to sleep. Well today I was lucky if she slept for 1.5 hours. She had two very short cat naps from
The span of 7am to 4pm. I've literally spent my entire day trying to get her to sleep. I haven't even got to brush my teeth bc when I did get her down I went and pumped and after I was done pumping is when she would wake:/ I'm literally ready to loose my marbles. Are there any tricks that have helped you? We've done swaddling- white noise- putting her down when she starts to get sleepy- letting her cry it out and nothing works well for her besides constant movement. Not even her baby swing does the trick! She is 3 weeks old! I feel like she should be sleeping more!
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  • hbird0723hbird0723 member
    We just hit 3 weeks today and she just started not wanting me to put her down and she startles easy so any move wakes her and then she wants to eat again. Maybe a growth spurt?
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  • boymum2014boymum2014 member
    The book healthy sleep habits,happy child is really good. For newborns it says they should only be awake for 1-2 hours a time & it's a matter of getting timing right & putting them for a nap before they become over tired. Not always easy but it's a goal!
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  • Lild09Lild09 member
    Meh my babe is all over the place he stays awake a lot but is happy and content, talked to my midwife today and she said it's ok he's like that let him be it's his personality and he will sleep when need to. My advice? Give up on trying so hard to out her to sleep

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  • gutsysneakersgutsysneakers member
    I could have written this post yesterday. My LO finally fell asleep in dad's arms around 8:45pm and slept until midnight. Woke up for a 2,4, and 7am feed. We did try gripe water and that seemed to help. I think dd has colic or gas or both? She is 16 days old. I'm hoping it was a one day thing. She was up again at 9:30 this morning and fell asleep again around 11.
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