My baby is coming up for 8 weeks now and is struggling to settle for naps in the day - happy to stay awake for hours being massively overtired!
I am absolutely out of my depth and quite tearful and overwhelmed as I've got days full of a crying, grumpy baby! I'm quite tearful myself about it and have no idea how to get baby to sleep during the day.
I've been trying to put in a routine (not based on timings!) of feed-activity-sleep. I try to put DC down for a nap when they show tired signs - yawning, rubbing face on my shoulder, but sometimes this is immediately after waking up and feeding?! Like today, woke up after an hour of sleep in the pram, fed one side (EBF), went to sleep, changed happy, fed from other side, still tired so after just a few minutes of chatting etc. I've tried to go straight to naptime. Should there be no awake time between naps sometimes????
Also I'm not really sure how to put baby down for a nap. At night there's no problems because we feed to sleep but in the day, I need to go from awake to naps and I literally have no idea how to do this!!
How much sleep does an 8 week old need??? Since 8:30am, we've only had about 2 hours awake time total, is this okay?
I know all these questions sound stupid but I really don't know anything about my baby.
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Janubub · 21/02/2017 16:57
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