Cluster Feeding

[carolweir]

Can I ask for some advice please.
My baby girl is just over 3 weeks old.

She is cluster feeding from 7pm until around 8:30ish and she doesn't like sleeping in her crib at all at this time. All other times she is fine.

Therefore she is with us in the living room and really worried this isn’t good for her.
She sometimes falls asleep in the rocker, when we have then tried to put her in the cot once sleeping, but she wakes up pretty quickly crying. She spits out her dummy all the time as hungry, so getting her back to sleep is real hard as she gets very agitated.

I am feeding her at 5:30pm ish of 90ml formula and then at 7:30pm 50ml of expressed milk. She still seems hungry.....

So do we just not force the sleep in the bedroom / crib and leave her in the living room with us to get sleep when she can?

Really don’t know what to do 😩

Thank you for your help.

The guidance until she's 6 months old is that she sleeps in the same room that you are in. So if you're in the living room in the evenings, that's where she should be. At 3 weeks she's tiny, at that age I had mine pretty permanently in my arms until I went to bed.

It's safer for them to always be in the same room as you, especially so young (advice is up to 6 months). So yes sleeping in the living room is perfectly fine!

My DD was the same around that age. I think it's pretty normal. She didn't go up into her crib until about 10/11 pm, at which point we were going to bed too. Once she was about 4 months old she had a more established routine and she went to bed around 8pm and slept most of the night. She's nearly 7 months now and sleeps (most nights) from 6:30-6! The early days are rough but they do pass.

Thanks so much. This has really made me feel better!