how do i get her to sleep!
My lttle girl is 3 weeks today and her body clock is way out of sync. She tends to wake up at 11pm until 4am then sleeps all day! We have tried to keep her awake in the day but they say if a baby needs to sleep nothing will wake them and that is true as we have tried everything to keep her awake in the day. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what we could do?
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My LO was really hard to keep awake but just doing half an hour activity after each feed made a huge difference. As Sophie+archie said keep the night times very dark and no noise, and i hope that in a few days your LO will have changed her body clock and you will get some much needed rest!
Em x
Good luck xxx
You could try a relaxing bed time routine maybe? She is probably a bit young to notice it however it gradually should help her know that bed time is coming.
I think babies of that age should only really be able to stay awake for 1 and a half hours so after this long try focusing on getting her to sleep.
My advice can't be too great however as my little one is 5 months old tomorrow and is still waking at 10,1 3 and 5 some nights. I think you should try and accept that for the forseeable future you may well be up quiet a bit in the night. As far as I am aware babies just are meant to wake up they aren't really designed to go to sleep for a whole night until they are much bigger.
It absolutely sucks when you are tired and exhausted ad I totally sympathise! Just relax when you can and take it easy and best of luck x
"have you tried just ignoring her in the night?"
Or pop her in the car seat in the car and go back to bed for more lovely zzz
Horrifying really!!!!!!!!:roll:
"have you tried just ignoring her in the night?"
Or pop her in the car seat in the car and go back to bed for more lovely zzz
Horrifying really!!!!!!!!:roll:
I really think Sophie+Archie meant give minimal interaction and ignore them in the sense of dont play and give stimulation during those hours as opposed to dont meet their needs and ignore them when they are hungry/crying. I think her words were taken too literally in her post and isnt what she was trying to say
pathetic.
It's hard, but it's normal. At 3 weeks my little man was still waking every 1.5-2 hours in the night for a feed, then going 4 hour stretches in the day. It wasn't easy, but that's because I was trying to pretend everything was normal - i.e. nothing had changed and it was a breeze being a mother - in the day time too. Just go with your baby and sleep when she sleeps. Your body is programmed to cope on little snaches of sleep at the moment. Once she starts settling into more of her own pattern, go with it. For mine, it was at around 6/7 weeks he started to go the little bit longer between feeds, so I could feed him every 3 hours in the day and he started going longer at night time, almost as if he switched the two because he was eating/doing awake-type things in the day and night time was just me and him in bed having a feed if he woke. There was no loud noises, light or lots of talking, just gentle whispering and straight back to bed. It will happen - please don't worry!
And no one's suggesting you don't go to a baby in the night, possibly not a great choice of words given the reaction, but I know what you meant sophie+archie