to say f**k you to DH and do it anyway!

[candyflossy7]

DH and I have been arguing none stop for the last two weeks over this and with a newborn it's the last thing we need!

DS just turned six weeks today so I wanted to start a bedtime routine to help him tell the difference between night and day. For the past 3 weeks he hasn't been getting to sleep until 2am/3am but mostly 3am, crying and fussiness starts from around 10pm right until he falls asleep at those times, we've tried everything from feeds, winding, napping changing but he still cries and refuses to sleep. He doesn't cry continuously, he can be calmed for a few minutes before starting again so I assume it's not colic and he's over tired therefore I was hoping a bedtime routine would help him?

Is anyone else's LO's like this? If so for how long? Anyone have any example routines for a 6 week old?

AIBU to say f**k this and do it anyway whether DH agrees or not?

Please help before DH and I lose our sanity ....and maybe our marriage!!

If you're FFing it could be the formula. I had this issue with DC1, had to switch him to the comfort one and it turned him into a completely different baby- twas incredible.

I started a sort of 'routine' at about six weeks with mine. I'd bath, dry, massage their tummies with some baby oil, dress, feed them in the bedroom, they'd fall asleep towards the end of the feed and I'd gently put them in their Moses basket. If they stirred when I put them down I'd rock the Moses basket a bit and either shh shh shh shh for a bit or crack out a gentle lullaby . And then downstairs I'd go. This would be at about 7pm, they wouldn't wake until about midnight when I'd change nappy and feed then again at 3am and again at 7am. Started sleeping through properly at six months 7 pm-7am.

I know everyone says it gets easier and you feel like throttling every person that says it because you don't have the bloody patience to wait another four months for it to 'get easier' , you want it to be easier now! But it's one of those things really, the first few months are the hardest because of the sleep deprivation but it doesn't last forever and really, that's the saving grace. I'd be nudging your DH to pull his flaming weight though! Work or not he should be helping with the night feeds IMO.