Hi, I am hoping for some Mumsnet wisdom on my 9 week old's sleep patterns.
From birth, she has been a good sleeper at night. She is generally only up once in the night - around 3am - and goes to bed around 7:30/8pm. Sometimes she'll wake for the day about 5:30, other days it's as late as 7am. To go to sleep at night she is swaddled and has her dummy, but is usually left to fall asleep on her own. When we go to bed, she is taken out of the swaddling and rarely stirs. After the feed in the night, she just drops back off.
I realised I am lucky with the nights, but the problem is the daytime. She point blank refuses to nap during the day. By 5pm she's red-eyed and furiously overtired. Yesterday her total nap time was one 45 min nap about 9am and two 15 min naps later on. She screamed solidly for about an hour before her bath and her eyes looked so wide and red she looked almost drugged.
When she was first born, putting her in the sling worked, but it has ceased to do so and she spends her whole time trying to watch what's going on. The pram is the same (and she gets even more furious if you try and block out what's going on by putting something over the pram). She seems to hate being rocked to sleep and won't normally drop off if I'm in the room (although once in a while she'll take a 15 minute nap with her dad). We've also tried swaddling her, closing the blackout curtains and putting her down with her dummy (same routine as night).
Does anyone have ANY suggestions? She's such a sunny baby in the mornings, but the afternoons are becoming a nightmare because she's so overtired. Does anyone else have babies who were like this and sorted themselves out?
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confusedfirsttimemum · 20/06/2009 18:01
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