Is baby insomnia a thing?

[CJ1990]

As I feel my 7 week old has it! Won’t sleep in the day and barely sleeps at night...I don’t understand. She’s wired all the time and no amount of rocking, shushing etc makes her sleepy. If anything she just gets frustrated if we do that.

I’m exhausted 😩 😭I feel useless that I can’t find a way to make her sleep. It took me three hours to get her down tonight...☹️

If she is happy, I wouldn't be worried about it. Obviously if she is distressed during all these wakeful times, there might be a problem, but if she is just awake and happy, I'd leave her to get on with it.

She’s happy, but I’m just exhausted. It’s fine in the day but when we try to sleep she’s just having none of it. I’ve tried going to be at 10pm, 8pm..no difference. White noise, silence..

Mine was the same. A little sleep fighter. No, don’t think it’s a thing, sleep fighting is though. My baby is and always was highly alert and active. People would be on here saying that baby’s his age should sleep 16 hours for brain development and he’d be having half that during the day and night- on a good day 9 hours in total.

He now sleeps about 14 hours in total at 9 1/2 months. It got better... eventually. I’d say around 4 months he started to be able to sleep better with a lot of help, although still lots of waking etc in the night. And sleep deprivation up until 8 months when he started to sleep through the night.

Car journeys and pram rides helped us