9 week old wont sleep during the day

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My 9 week old dd refuses to sleep during the day and just screams the house down. Im at my witts end. Ive tried putting her down as soon as she starts yawning and that makes her start crying. The only thing that does work is a good 10 mins of bouncing in her chair but i dont like leaving her in that all day as ive been told its bad for her spine.

She sleeps perfectly at night time. Goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 5/6, but she gets so over tired as the day goes on. I just dont know what to do any more.

Is this just because she so young? Will she learn how to go to sleep eventually? Or am i doing something wrong? I dont want to try the cio method yet because of how young she is.

DS1 was like this. We were lucky if he had two five minute naps a day!

He did however sleep for hours if taken out in the pram. He would wake up again as soon as you stopped walking! You could try this. Or a sling might well work as well.

She will grow out of it eventually. DS2 and DD were a bit better but not much.

I find it hilarious when people talk about babies sleeping all the time. Some babies just don't.

DS was the same! He would sleep wonderfully in a buggy but nowhere else. I'd bring the pram into the back garden (or kitchen if it was chilly), rock him to sleep and gently wiggle the buggy if he sounded like he was stirring - I tended to sit near him with a cuppa and book, so it was a relaxing time for me too.

Eventually he grew out of it but not until he'd swapped his cot for a bed.

DD doesn't choose to nap during the day.

I do the chair bouncing thing.
she is 16w now, she was in her chair pretty much all the time until last week, and now i put her on a floor mat for most of the time when i'm not feeding or holding her.

she does a moaning thing, so i bounce her chair and she naps for about 15 minutes.
and she naps when we're going to and from work in the pram.

9 weeks olds often need quite a bit of help to get them to sleep, the world is just too interesting and they are not able to self settle yet. I would rock my DS's to sleep on their prams at that age and they'd then stay asleep for at least 45 mins but my 9 week old DD will not stay asleep in the pram unless there is constant motion so the only way I can get her to have long naps is to have her in the sling next to me and she snoozes while I do chores or play with her brothers. If I left her to her own devices she would not nap and just cry, but she needs sleep and is much happier when she has good naps.

my 23m old was never a good day sleeper but always reasonably good at night- sounds like yours. I just had to take him out in the pram for a walk and always when i just got back he would wake up. He has really never slept that well in the day and is now appearing to be dropping his day naps completely. I think some babies are just not day sleepers but the way i always looked at it i would prefer this to them being up all night

Have you tried a dummy?
If she doesn't like it at first, you can gently tap the dummy about 10x after you first put it in, as this mimicks the let-down of your milk and sort of tricks them into taking it.

Yawning is a tired sign but it is one of the last to show. Other tired signs are jerky hand movements, rubbing eyes or attempting to touch ears. PErhaps try looking for those and putting her down at that stage instead of waiting for a yawn? At this age she's probably going to be tired every hour or so.

I have a 9 week old too and am very of your nights!
My DD2 naps usually in the sling (if I have things to do or am out and about) or in bed with me (if I sneak back into bed for a nap). Basically she finds it impossible to stay awake in the sling if I am also moving! She also occasionally sleeps in her chair which goes nearly flat if she is in the bathroom with the fan on. She has a dummy at night.
Have you tried white noise, a sling or a dummy?

My 8 week old needs a lot of help to get to sleep too sometimes. I put him in the pram and jiggle it till he goes, and then again if he's mooching. I can generally get a couple of hours like this.

He can't stay awake for more than an hour or so, and will then nap for two hours till his next feed, so he's only awake for about 5 hours a day. And he sleeps through the night as well. So don't worry that you'll destroy nighttimes by encouraging daytime sleep, it generally works the other way around - they sleep better at night if they're not overtired.