I’m a first time mom to a 5 week old little girl. She’s a really good baby and has only started fussing about sleep recently...
Up until maybe a week ago I was able to put her down to sleep in her cot during nighttime or Moses basket downstairs. She falls asleep on the breast or being cuddled and rocked or in the wrap sling.
Now she refuses to be put down anywhere for her day naps and has to be on me or my husband to sleep. Otherwise she wakes up almost immediately.
At night she is ok to go to the cot between 9pm and 3am (with a break for a feed at midnight). But when she wakes up for a feed after 3am and I try to put her down in the cot she wakes up very quickly and we either end up playing a game of put down pick up, where it takes 40mins to soothe her and she than stays 10-20mins in the cot, or I take her into bed with me and we both get a little bit of sleep.
How on earth does she know that it’s after 3am I have no idea, and why the cot is perfectly fine in this short timeframe but at any other time it’s unacceptable?
Did anyone have similar experience?
Any advise on how to cope with this and somehow train her to sleep in the cot/Moses basket?
I don’t want her to demand to sleep on people all the time...
Thanks!
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5 week old refuses to go in the cot
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magda3 · 08/10/2020 08:45
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