To think this isn't normal?

[Babababababybel23]

7 week old dd has slept all night for the past week. She stays awake all day. She will not sleep on me or dh, won't go into her crib and cries if we put her down. The only time she will go to sleep is in the car and only when it is moving.
She in now lying on me watching corrie. I can't remember the last time I even had a cup of tea. It's impossible to get anything done and I'm knackered. She is also constantly hungry.
What am I doing wrong????
It's driving me insane

From a couple of weeks old, my baby slept through the night and didn't nap. I thought there was something wrong, so I took her for some cranial osteopathy and after a couple of sessions, she started napping and waking a couple of times a night. He explained that because of birth trauma she had a constant headache and was too uncomfortable to nap, but at night was so exhausted she slept through. I've always been a bit suspicious of osteopathy, but it seemed to work for her. I missed the full nights sleep though, she didn't sleep through until 11 months after that!

Have you tried a sling? I use a caboo with my 12 week DD. It’s the only way you can get things done without the screaming. Also, now she’s reached the 3 month mark she will sleep for longer periods in her basket. It will definitely get better. But I know you feel like you never have any time for yourself at the moment. It will pass.

My ds had bilateral talipes and wore the relevant contraption 23/24 hours a day. He slept through at 2 weeks and not at all daytime. He is a healthy 9 yo . Hv had no issue with his patterns.

She does go the whole day without doing a poo aswell and then it all comes at night just before bed. She seems to be pushing for quite a while before it does come

Hang on.. is she not napping even when she's on you? Or is she falling asleep, you're putting her down and that's waking her up? Unfortunately, when they're as tiny as 7 weeks, you often have to just accept that you're going to be trapped under a tiny sleeping baby/ carrying them in a sling while they sleep...

Also if you lie on the floor and side bf you can have a great doze without co-sleeping risks. Just go with the flow and learn to feed outside - i built up my confidence by starting to feed in mother and baby rooms in mothercare, then bf group. If you have a non sleeper even walking down to cafe, having a feed and walking home again he,ps

My youngest never slept more than a single nap of 20 minutes during the day. Unfortunately, he didn't sleep through the night either. That's why he doesn't have a younger sibling 😁

No she doesn't nap even when she is on us, she just lies there smiling and laughing or just babbling to herself. Though the laughing did only start for the first time today

Have you taken her outdoors in the pram for walks? Fresh air normally does the trick and if you’re lucky she may doze on when you get home.

She hates her pram it makes her scream bloody murder. She limits all my options for peace

I think she might be a bit overstimulised.

And invest in a sling!

Imo a dummy and a sling.

I have used a dummy with all my children. I have 6. They are a lifesaver.

I'd also ask for advice on the Sleep subforum. FATEdestiny normally has some good advice to offer.

I agree a dummy helps. Rocking with a dummy in works for us, too.

If she's sleeping for such a long stretch it's not surprising she's always hungry when awake as she's packing in all her calories then.

It sounds like you've got an overtired baby... id pop over to sleep as a pp suggested and see if you can get @FATEdestiny to give you some advice. She's helped me loads.

Ride it out for a bit longer, probably some kind of growth spurt making her want to feed all day so she is too hungry to sleep in the day but then passes out with exhaustion at night. Hang in there you are heading for an easier stage...

I would make sure you have a long daily walk outdoors with her in a sling as it does seem that fresh air helps babies sleep. With skill it is possible to remove the sling and baby without the latter the waking.

I rarely had a day without mine having at least an hour outside. From birth. They weren’t natural sleepers but it seemed to help.

My daughter slept 4 hours straight a night until she was about 4 yrs old then she started sleeping more then. She didn’t need naps.
Was a really exhausting time. You do get through it. Doesn’t seem like it at the time though. My son who was born 11 months later slep all the time.

DD was like this but both day and night.

Baby sling was the answer. She slept in that and I could crack on with housework.

Exhausting. Make sure your DH is doing his fair share so you get some downtime.

I wish he could but he works long hours, he does do a lot when he is here ( with the baby so I get a break from her) but I used that time to shower and clean the house before he leaves

Is she falling asleep after 10 mins of feeding?

If so, try waking her by ticking her feet, or gently blowing on her face, or changing her nappy, then try offering the other breast.

Also google ‘growth spurts’ and have a look at the breast feeding info on kelly mom.

As long as she’s gaining weight, having plenty of wet and dirty nappies, and is settled and not routing around, it might just mean that she likes to cluster feed and sleeps longer at night. My DD was pretty similar, but would feed for nearly an hour at a time during the day......

I had one of these...just go with it, it's exhausting trying to change it. She'll change her own pattern in time

I would be waking her in the night to feed. Maybe just once but enough to fill her tummy. 8 hours sleep in 24 hours is nowhere near enough and she is likely over tired and hungry during the day. I would imagine your health visitor has advised you to wake her in the night for feeds? 8 hours is a long time to go without a feed at 7 weeks. My third ds was like this, slept beautifully overnight and not a jot during the day - it was actually harder work this way, he was often irritable and grumpy all day long and I couldn’t put him down.