My baby is 10 weeks old. She seems to need an amazing amount of sleep - just now, she was up for about 30 minutes before getting jerky limbs, cooing, startling and looking wired. Unfortunately she rarely yawns as a sleep cue. She sleeps for about 10 hours a night with a couple of wakes to feed. She will nap for about 2 hours at a time and the longest she is awake for is about 1 hour. This gives me hardly any time to do anything with her: for example, if I want to bath her, I have to do it superquickly and yesterday didnt even have time to dress her properly before she gave a grimace and cry which signals to me that she needs to go to sleep. If I dont take her to bed then we get full on screaming and it becomes impossible to put her down later. When we are out and about she does not sleep when the pram is stationary or indoors. If we miss the sleep cues within about five minutes it seems we are in full blown screaming territory and it can take hours to settle her back down. I find this time very stressful. This means I hardly go out and get very nervous when I do. I thought the problem was my anxiety and filled out a sleep record with 'whats the worst that can happen' when I went out to lunch with my parents yesterday. My prediction: she would start crying when out, get wired, and get impossible to settle for the rest of the day, and that I would find it very hard to cope' turned out not to be catastrophising it happened in every respect. To me, the most important thing to me is my and baby's sanity, but I also worry that she wont get used to socialising. Other people tell me I need to get out 'for myself' but when that happens I am coping with full on screaming for the rest of the day into the evening and when that happens, the only way I can get her to sleep is by feeding her until she is sleepy and calm. They are also saying 'maybe she needs to sleep less and the problem is you are MAKING her sleep too much'. I feel very alone with this. I wish my baby did not need to sleep so much too. I dont mind the sleep i mind the screaming. Is there something wrong with my baby that she is sleeping so much? Have I got it wrong? What should I do?
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Is my ten week old baby sleeping too much - please help!
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Biscuitplanner · 20/12/2014 10:42
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