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8 week old baby constantly wakes after half hour but getting chronically tired. Only sleeps longer if rocked.

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pevie · 26/06/2007 20:39

My 8 week old dd2 has got into a habit of always waking after a half hour unless in my arms. Sometimes shorter if put her down for nap in day, ie.10 mins. Sometimes can be rocked back to sleep quite quickly, other times not. If keep her in my arms will continue sleeping but this is not proving feasible with 3 year old who needs to get out and about. When in pram is very hit or miss, used to sleep longer if in motion but now this isn't working well either. When we put her down at night in her baby nest she will sleep for half hour then wake up and need rocked back to sleep which takes much longer second time round. If I dont rock her and just get her up during day will be okay at first then get really tired and cranky. wondered if any tips, also has anyone done CC this early or tried to let them cry when wake up. This is putting terrible strain on my relationship with dd1 as I feel I spend whole day trying to get dd2 to sleep.

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MadamePlatypus · 05/07/2007 22:11

The stuff that we found worked were swaddling (miracle blanket was the only one that stayed on), white noise cd and dummy. Once we started with these, it was like having an off switch for DD.

By 4 months she had given up the dummy and swaddling, but was pretty much going to sleep by herself.

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