Sleep help!

EllBells610 · November 2014

Hi my daughter is 3 weeks old and I'm having problems with her sleeping in her pack n play next to my bed. I put her in there for bed at night and she fusses so much. I feed her to help her settle and then put her in again and after about 2 minutes she starts fussing again and starts to cry. The only thing that I can do to get her to stop is to put her on my chest and thats when she falls asleep. If I move her too soon, she wakes up and starts crying again. I would love her to start falling asleep in her space since I'm afraid that she is going to get too used to falling asleep on me and this is going to end up being her thing. Most nights we just end up falling asleep together. Anyone have any suggestions or anyone else going through this same thing?

ANGnJON · November 2014

I'm in the same boat! The twins (1 month old) will generally sleep ok during the day in the PnP but at night all bets are off! This started recently for me, they are cluster feeding day & night! They sleep most nights on me because that's the only way I get any sleep! If you don't swaddled them may I suggest that you try it. I will say it helps especially with the startle reflex!

griffers · November 2014

How old is your baby? I've found ours gets better the older he gets. Part of the night he still sleeps with me though. I'd try swaddling, feeding, then waiting until they are really asleep before laying them down.

EllBells610 · November 2014

I swaddle her every night from under her arms down. She doesn't like having her arms swaddled in and always pulls them out. If it's the flat surface what can I do to elevate her a little? I'm afraid of what I'm in for tonight. She's been sleeping all day. I've had to wake her up to change and feed her and then she falls back to sleep. I'm crossing my fingers that she's not going to be up all night now -_-

Klavanga74 · November 2014

A couple suggestions...roll up two of the muslin blankets and put them up against her on either side...from hips or under arms down. If you're worried about the blankets being in there, put them under the sheet. You found also roll them up lengthwise into a u-shape to cradle under her butt and around her sides. Again, you could go under the sheet. I have books under the legs on one side of pack n play to elevate. With my oldest, I used to take a t shirt is worn recently and lay it flat under the sheet so it was under her and smelled like me. Who knows if it helped, but I think it did.

ashleyvictoria · November 2014

I had the exact same issue OP. I tried pretty much all of the PPs suggestions (swaddling, waiting until LO was dead asleep, rolled blankets, etc.) without success...until last night. I finally gave in to co-sleeping. My best friend had given me her First Years co-sleeper a few months ago, but I had decided not to do bed sharing/co-sleeping so we hadn't used it. I tried it last night for the first time and LO fell right back to sleep after nursing each time and let me put him right in the sleeper (swaddled with arms in)...except once, when it took him two times of me rocking him to sleep and putting him down after he was dead asleep. It has only been one night, but I would definitely consider it a success. I was able to get a couple two hour blocks of sleep in, which I hadn't had in days. I know co-sleeping is not for everyone and I was against doing it myself until yesterday, but I need sleep!

https://www.amazon.com/The-First-Years-Secure-Sleeper/dp/B00012CHFI

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