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HELP! Not sleeping at all

alt0806alt0806 member
in August 2015 Moms
Baby is almost 8 weeks and since bringing him home from the hospital, will only sleep being held, in swing or car seat for half an hour or so, or will sleep a good three hour stretch but only when laying on his tummy on my chest. I started off trying to stay awake while he was laying on me, but eventually just gave in and started sleeping with him like this. He'll sleep for two hours, and as soon as he starts to move, it wakes me up and he nurses. But now that it's getting cold and I'm sleeping without blankets and he's getting bigger, it would be nice if he would sleep on his own. As soon as I lay him down, he gasps then starts crying. If I lay him down while fast asleep, he wakes up after half an hour because he can't go from a light sleep to deep sleep. Even laying him down sleepy but awake leads to screaming. I've tried to soothe him while he's in the crib or give him s chance to calm himself down, but he just gets hysterical. 

I've been trying for the past week to get him to sleep in the mini-crib. He's swaddled in the halo sleep sack and swaddle (both arms in, one arm in, both arms out...), we have white noise playing, humidifier on, room is dark, blanket is under the top of mattress to put in in an incline. He won't take a pacifier. It feels like I spend more time trying to get him to sleep than he does actual sleep. Today it was an hour of trying to get him to sleep on his own at 4 in the morning and yesterday for a morning nap. 

Any suggestions or advice are greatly appreciated!!





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Re: HELP! Not sleeping at all

  • emmy236emmy236 member
    I'm so sorry you are going through this. DS was and still is a craptastic sleeper. I definitely remember this. Luckily, I promise it will pass but that doesn't really help you now. DD is a much better sleeper and I contribute a lot of it to this rock n play. She has actually been STTN. Now a lot of that is she is naturally a better sleeper right now than DS was, but this definitely helps. She stirs when it finally stops rocking but I just hit the button again and stick her paci back in and she's out.

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  • SonadoraSonadora member
    My first was like that. She had pretty severe acid reflux. Have you had LO evaluated for it? My first's was silent reflux, so she didn't have the typical symptoms and it was a bit harder to diagnose. She got a bit better after getting her meds right, but to be honest she was a pretty cruddy sleeper until she was almost a year and just randomly started STTN. Sleep training at 6 and 8 months helped to eliminate some of the night feedings where she didn't actually need to eat but was just used to eating.
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  • KalikinsKalikins member
    edited October 2015
    I asked a friend of mine, she fosters infants and has had over 60 as well as her own 3 . So she knows a lot. This is her advice to me for my own sleeping issues:
    You could try putting him on his side, with a couple of rolled receiving blankets or hand towels to keep him there. My method for helping babies to sleep in their beds: clean pants, full tummy, swaddle/binky if he likes those, a couple of gentle pats, and exit. Wait five minutes. If he's still crying, go in , pat and soothe, but don't pick him up. Wait five more minutes. Soothe. Then, wait ten minutes before you go in. Then fifteen, etc. Night two, he'll have figured out that his bed is for sleeping. As you keep this up, you will see that he's going to sleep more quickly each night that passes. I used this with a 3-month old who had been rocked to sleep every night of her life. Three nights of this, and she went to sleep and slept about seven hours straight. Also, try not to put him to bed asleep. Even if he nods off, whisper in his ear, " Here is your bed. You can go to sleep here. I love you." He will rouse briefly, and see his bed, and things will click that he's in the place where he sleeps. Hope this helps.

    Hope this helps you. My LO slept 5 hours last night. LO also sleeps at an incline because he is often stuffy. And I have him sitting up more right after eating for about 15 minutes which helps with spit up.
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  • taylorharber1108taylorharber1108 member
    Owen is the same way. I feel for you and don't have any real advice. Have you tried MAM pacis? They are the only ones Owen will take.
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