Hi everyone first post here as I am going out of my mind!
My baby is 9 weeks old, he was born 5 weeks prem.
He just doesn't seem to sleep! During the day time he will perhaps have a few cat naps but whenever I try to put him down for a proper nap he will wake and strain and then cry within 5 minutes and be wide awake and not settle at all.
I'm mixed feeding him due to him being prem a tough labour so anti biotics and having jaundice. Trying to get ebf but not sure if it will happen now!
A lot of the time he won't even take a full feed at once, is this normal? So he will have 2oz then 1iz then another with half hour gaps. And he doesn't fall asleep after his feeds either so I can't feed him to sleep!
the problem comes at night when he wakes for his 2/3am feed and then that's it, he is wide awake and will not settle. He strains brings his legs up moans grunts and ends up crying and no matter what I do he won't settle ever! This results in a long 3 hours trying to get him to sleep and eventually giving up and me only getting A few hours sleep every night.
Sorry a very mixed post but if anyone has any suggestions at all that would be so so helpful as I feel like I'm doing something wrong
Thanks!
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user1486491594 · 07/07/2017 09:46
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