To be worried about my non-sleeping newborn?

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Argh.

She just won't settle! She just seems to doze for short periods of time on me. Then she'll waken up and squirm and fight. If I put her down, she's awake within five minutes. I've tried her Moses basket, her bouncy chair and her pram. Nothing works! Doesn't seem to be in any discomfort, just wakes and squeaks and squirms till she's picked up.

She also eats like a bird. Takes two ounces of formula in a feed then doesn't seem to want much more. She should be on 4 or 5 by now but it's a total struggle to get her to eat more. It takes ages, she doesn't wind.

Please help. I can get nothing done and I have a pissed off 2.5 year old to contend with.

It is totally and completely normal for newborns not to want to be put down. It's frustrating but it doesn't mean anything is wrong. Get a sling and enjoy the snuggles. Try swaddling at nighttime, I found swaddling and putting DD2 in a Sleepyhead worked wonders.

I think 2oz every 2 hrs is fine for a newborn. As long as baby has sufficient wet nappies (6-8 a day), is pooing (2 x 50p sized poos per day, but frequency can change, e.g. One massive poonami every other day, I'm looking at you DD2)and is gaining weight, then they are having enough milk.

Thank you. I'm going to ask about tongue tie. A lot of those symptoms are familiar. My brother had one when he was a newborn. He got it fixed under GA!

50p sized poos?! DD's are massive. I was concerned about a milk allergy but she seems to be gaining weight etc

I would get baby checked for reflux, my DS would similar but worse & I wanted to throw myself out of the window

The uninterest in food, difficulty bringing up wind, not being able to be put down, poor sleep are some reflux symptoms.

I kept being told it's the fourth trimester, he loves you so much he doesn't want to be away from you etc but this was my second reflux baby so I knew. He's now on medication & so so so much better.

Worth getting checked.

That does sound familiar.

I googled reflux last week and what made me think it wasn't that is the fact that she isn't a sicky baby. She's only been sick once or twice because DH overfed her

No they don't have to be sick to have to have reflux. My DS has SILENT reflux so all the usual reflux symptoms but no vomiting.

I don't have any different advice to what ready been said but if baby is gaining weight and alive you're doing a fucking good job ! And with a 2.5 year old. It's shite but relatively short lived - just feels like you're sinking when you're in it.
Take all the help/support you can and take one day at a time

Mine never slept either! Couldn't get on with sling because he would crane his head away and then all of a sudden get lazy and drop it- he was able to hold his head up from birth but you would never know when he was going to get bored and give up and do himself damage.

Mine was most definitely in discomfort (silent reflux/colic) but even when he wasn't obviously uncomfortable or crying he still only slept for really short period and only in my arms.

Swaddle and dummy helped sometimes, being rocked in the pram (took forever but sometimes worked) and also we invested in a battery operated swing chair which was the most successful of them all. I'd wait till he'd fallen asleep in my arms, long enough that he was (hopefully) in a deeper sleep and then transfer him to the swing chair, he would usually stir but the motion sent him back off again.

I couldn't transfer him to Moses basket or cot that way, he'd wake up without fail. He hated being on his back, the swing chair was good because it kept him a bit more upright which helped with the reflux, and the movement made him sleepy.

Thank you user

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