Hi there, this is the first time I have used this forum and I'm really hoping someone can help. I'm a first time Mum to a beautiful 11 week old boy. The problem we have is that we seem to have a Jekyll and Hyde baby. We put him to sleep at 8pm after a 4oz feed and a fight, he then gets a dream feed at 10pm and wakes around 2.30am and 5.30am. I swaddle him at bedtime and he's an angel all night. Drains his bottles no problem and goes straight back to sleep in his next to me crib. The problem we are having arises once he is up at 7am. All throughout the day he picks at his bottles, never finishing a feed like his does at night. He just has his milk in drips and drabs (he is bottle fed). The second issue we have is the one that is really getting us down. He WILL NOT take a nap without a battle. Once we can see he's getting tired all hell breaks loose. He will cry and scream resisting sleep while we walk around the house with him, until he drops off. The only thing that soothes him is white noise. The idea of him dropping off to sleep on his own in his moses basket/crib seems like an impossibility. We have tried putting him down before he gets tired, when he gets tired and once he has fallen to sleep. The second he's down he is wide awake and starts kicking off. We have found it easier to just keep holding him while he naps otherwise he wont sleep at all and you can imagine the mood he is then in all day. Even my mother who has had 2 children, been a childminder and looked after grandchildren has admitted she's never known a baby fight naps as much as he does. Please someone HELP
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