Baby not sleeping until 3am every night
My two month old baby is not falling asleep until 3am every night. I've tried everything now to change his habit but he is really stubborn. Its beginning to impact on my relationship as my partner now spends most nights in the spare room as he has to get up early for work. Im at a loss over what to do, has anyone got any suggestions? Id be grateful for anything!
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Sky I feel your pain. My daughter was a 'good sleeper' from birth - by which I mean she slept a good 7 hours but never actually went down until 2am.
I think it's quite difficult to sleep train a 2 month old but we found routine was definitely the key. We started a proper rigid routine when she was around 10 weeks and it took a lot of perseverance (not picking her up and talking to her, not turning on any lights etc) but she was going down by about 9:30/10 by 13 weeks and now at 5 months sleeps from 8pm until 8:30am. We also never let her nap after 4:30pm so she's really tired when it hits 7 and we start the bath/bottle/story (never too young for a book - we love 'Oh baby the places you will go' by Dr Seuss as its got a really nice rythym even when she can't understand me). Failing that I found the '5 S' technique online which works wonders if she's really upset or overtired. It's Swaddle, Stomach (or side), Shush, Swing and Suck. Basically I swaddle her arms, lie down in the bed with her stomach against mine, give her her dummy, rock side to side and shush her. In about 30 seconds she's out - 5 minutes I can put her down still swaddled and she stays down all night - she does unwrap the swaddle though as she can roll so I never do it too tightly.
Really if comes down to the baby and when they are ready to pick up on cues for bedtime etc but it really will get better if you just keep it up! Good luck and keep up what you're already doing x
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