10 week old wants to go to bed!

[Flangeosaurus]

I’ll start by saying I’m sorry, I really am, DS1 was the most horrific sleeper ever and slept in 90 minute slots until he was 2.5. It. Was. Shit.

DS2 is 10 weeks and appears to be a completely different breed and is very chilled and sleeps a LOT. From about 8pm every night he’s unsettled and wants to be held (fine!) but mostly it looks like he wants to be in bed. He’s had several nights over the last couple of weeks where he just wouldn’t settle until he was put to bed - he sleeps on his own in a cot in our bedroom, but obviously up to now we’ve just always been in the room with him whether upstairs or downstairs! He seems to be getting worse and worse the last week and I’m starting to think he just wants to be in his bed but I don’t like the thought of such a young baby in a room where we’re not there - even with a monitor on. Would you leave them at this age? It feels wrong but it seems to be what he wants!

Travel cot would solve the issue. You could use the mattress from his cot if you think it might make a difference. Put it somewhere dark downstairs!

Or buy a cheap tablet (computer) and downloads Netflix for upstairs!!

I used a monitor at that age (from 4 weeks). I stopped sleeping in the same room as him at 12 weeks unless he slept badly, then we coslept. I know this doesn’t follow official guidance, but it was done with the knowledge of the health visitor.

Around that age, we put ours to bed upstairs. They were only on their own for an hour or two as we were tired so heading to bed early anyway