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My baby is 4 days old now- i've had here home for 2 nights. the first night she sleep GREAT, woke up at regular intervals, and went back to sleep quickly. last night though, she woke earlier than the first night. I could not get her to go back to sleep for 3 1/2 hours!!!!! she wasn't crying a lot, and was fed and diapered -diapered 5 times! What can I do to get her wake up times to be shorter? I feel like alll of her needs were met, but I guess something was missing.
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They have to adjust and get on a schedule. My 9 wk old will sleep 2hrs one night and maybe 4 or 5 the next without waking for the next feeding. It just depends. He is a b___st baby so it varies. He has not slept through the night yet. He goes to bed anywhere from 9-11. I dont work so a schedule is not really that big a deal to me right now. In a few months when he sleeps longer and gets older, I will have a better schedule with him and try to get him down around 830 -930. Right now your baby is going to sleep almost day and night.
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You just need to give it time I'm afraid. A few weeks in fact. It took my daughter 2 months to settle down. She was also very sleepy the first couple of nights that we had her, but I think that was just because she was exhausted by the birth and her drugs hadn't worn off. You'll probably have a tough time in the next few weeks, but just hang in there, because it does get better. Honest! I didn't do anything special to get my daughter to sleep at night, she just worked it out on her own. Giving her a bath and a feed before bed, usually knocks her out though. Congratulations on your daughter by the way! :)
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Hate to say it but you may be dealing with that for a few weeks or months. My daughter is 3 1/2 months and just now getting into a pattern. Try to do the same thing every night. We start at 9:00pm and give Ellie a bath , get her ready for bed, give her a warm bottle, read a story and rock her to sleep. It seems to work well and she likes when her dad reads to her because he has a deep soothing voice.
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My only piece of advice is get used to nothing. Just when you think you have it all under control, they change it up on you. After the first couple days at home, Ben sbasically ate and slept, with a few shport bouts of crying. I thought I hit the jackpot- lol!! Well, then came his growth spurt around 3-4 weeks and he woke up raging at the world. He has since calmed down and worked himself up over and over again. He'll be six weeks old tomorrow and I can honestly say I am no closer to having a schedule than I was the day I brought him home, but I'm trying! :)
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Does she sleep a lot during the day? My son had his days and nights mixed up at first. It took me about 6 weeks to get him to sleep at night and only nap during the day. I did it by waking him up every 2-3 hours during the day. As they get older and weigh more they will hopefully sleep longer at night. However, I know people that aren't as lucky. I'll be interested to see if my technique works with the next one.
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