I have a colicky, reflux, almost 8 week old. He's been a terrible sleeper since day 1, but it is what it is. For now we just take every day as it comes.
What I want to know, is if you all have any sleep tricks you could share with a first time mum. My boy just doesn't like to fall asleep and gets himself so overtired and upset.
I try rocking him, using a variety of speeds and directions (up, down, left, right), shushing, stroking his forehead to nose (this works sometimes but he has to already be really close to sleep). I've tried feeding him to sleep which will work sometimes but moving him to burp him will normally wake him up. The car used to send him straight to sleep, now it's hit or miss if it will. If he goes in the sling he just screams in my face most of the time, he's not fell asleep in the sling since he was about 2 weeks old. He sometimes falls asleep in the pram but half the time will just stare back at me like I've got two heads 😂 I've tried putting him down awake, putting him down drowsy and jlgonestly, putting all these methods together I really feel like it's just luck of the draw, or he'll just keep screaming and eventually pass out from exhaustion.
Any little tricks that you picked up along the way would be greatly appreciated.
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Ajahd · 19/11/2020 04:53
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