I have a 12 day old LO who until past 4 nights has had decent blocks of sleep at night - 2/3 hours at a time. He's now started being wide awake from 1am pretty much through til 10am with perhaps 4 x 20 min naps throughout the night.
He sleeps amazingly during the day and has no problems feeding daytime and is he most chilled relaxed baby.
At night, his feeds are shorter and he's way more fussy. Seems to need burped lots and has been pooing like 4-5 times throughout the night. He's been doing at least one large vomit too per night and constantly gets the hiccups.
He's clearly overtired but I'm trying to work out if something else is to blame too? DH and I are slowly becoming demented, and I'm getting to the point where I think we might have to stop visitors altogether for a while just so we can sleep during the day.
I know this is supposed to be normal, but it doesn't seem normal for such a small baby to be awake for up to 3 hours?
We have swaddled, play white noise, have dim lights, don't speak to him or speak in whispers, carry him in his carrier (often will fall asleep for 10-20 mins after putting down) he has a co-sleep crib so is right next to us and can smell us.
Just don't know what else to do?!!!
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INeedABeer · 19/11/2016 04:10
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