Baby acting like hungry

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Hi baby acting like she hungry searching desperately for bottle so given bottles lots of them over the day but she take like 1 or 2oz no more and then kick arms and legs, she has infacol with every feed, given dummy but she won't settle and keeps searching even when she got dummy, she has not slept all day

What age is she?

If she's hungry feed her

She does not seem to take the bottle just play with it, she 7 weeks

Maybe this is linked to your question earlier regarding teat size- she may need to go up?

Maybe, I just don't know what to do right now though to settle her

Hold her, wind her, just do what you can.

Might be a rough night but some will be

she has not slept all day... don't know what to do right now though to settle her

Do you have a cot sheet or giant muslin?

Swaddle

• Place a cot sheet across your bed.
• Place baby in centre of long edge
• Baby's neck/chin in line with top of sheet
• Place baby's left arm across chest
• Pull left side of sheet diagonally over baby's arm, under baby and smooth out
• Place baby's right arm across chest, on top of the side just tucked over baby.
• Pull right side of sheet diagonally over baby's arm, under baby and smooth out

Feed

• while baby is swaddled, offer a feed. If refused, don't worry.

Wind / Cuddle

• Place swaddled baby across your chest, from one hip up to the opposite shoulder. You upright, standing.
• rub circles on baby's back, rather than vigorous patting.
• sway your body as cuddling
• do this until a burp, or say 10 mins or so.

rock

• move baby into a cradle hold, head higher than chest though.
• hold high enough so baby's face/eat is up to your face
• Dummy in. You might need to gently hold the dummy to stop it falling out. Tapping the dummy reminds baby to suck.
• do some quite loud and continuous shushhhhhhhhhhhhhh sounds over and over again.
• holding baby close to your chest, twist your torso from the waist to rock, not too fast, but maintaining perpetual movement.
• keep on going. Perpetual and rhythmic movement, dummy, shush, swaddle. Be relentless about it.

These ^ are not things I would suggest normally. But if your baby has genuinely not sleep at all all day, the level of sleep deprivation and exhaustion your baby is currently in will call for extreme actions.

An easier option might be a two-man long car journey. One sat next to baby helping with a dummy, the other driving. At least it gets baby to sleep in case of exhaustion. Desperate times call for desperate measures.