3 week old not settling at night

[Yorkroad22]

Hi,

My LO is 3 weeks old and does not want to settle at night. He will fall asleep on us but as soon as we try and put him down he becomes very fidgety and eventually wakes up again.

We have tried swaddling ... which worked in the beginning but now he hates having his hands in.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks

This is just what 3 week old babies do I'm afraid. They just want to be near you constantly, it's a basic instinct.

Not very helpful I know but we've all been there and it does start to get better by itself with time.

Lots of people swear by things like sleepyheads but I understand nit everyone is comfortable using them.

This is completely normal and was such a shock to us! It's intense but try to find a way to get through it because in a couple more weeks they get used to it. Keep trying with basket
and let them spend a bit of awake time in it if possible (prob only a few mins at that age!). Co sleeping got me through those early weeks and it saves my sanity. But it's not for everyone of course. Enjoy your new baby!

Ours was the same...I must say...We bit the bullet and bought a sleepy head. He slept every night in it since. As posted above says...not everyone is comfortable having them sleep in them but for us it was the least risky option. He was only falling asleep on us and we were in turn falling asleep which is very dangerous.

He absolutely loves his sleepy head, we swaddle him and put him in it and he will sleep foe hours. He is underweight so we have to wake him for feeds in the night still at 2 months...one time we accidently fell back to sleep and he went a solid 5 hours before waking up.

I know it's not for everyone...but I couldn't recommend it enough...it really saved us.

Totally normal I’m afraid! Try a sleeping bag instead of swaddling though and it may help transfers as keeps them cosy. You can get newborn ones or they often have poppers to make neck hole small enough to be safe.

Read up on the fourth trimester. Your baby should still be inside you. It wants those conditions.

Sorry, I think this is pretty standard. The only way I could get a decent night's sleep was to snuggle up with my DD at this age, she wouldn't settle unless she had her face pressed against my chest/shoulder to hear my heartbeat. By the time she was about 6 weeks old I could roll away from her for most of the night (we had a cot attached to the bed) and by 3 months she was sleeping in the cot (but with the usual wakings for milk during the night).

Very normal. With both of ours we took turns staying up at night to hold them (I would wake to do the feeds) while the other slept and then switch off half way. My dh did 8pm to 1am and I’d do 1am to 6am. Just how babies are I’m afraid, but no one ever talks about this bit. It got easier from 6-8 weeks though and we could put them to sleep in our room during the night.

Frustratingly normal!
If he liked being swaddled but now wants his arms, you could try the 'love to dream' arms up swaddle bag or a gro swaddle bag which can be used arms in or out.

Once my baby got a bit better at sleeping next to me instead of on me, white noise was surprisingly effective at keeping her asleep.

Nuk newborn latex dummy, can order it from Amazon.

That's a 3 week old's job.

Feed, wind, feed, wind, sleep when you can...

Then do the same every now and again for the next 3 months.

Yy to fourth trimester.

Nig regressions 3 wk, 6 wk, 3m, but Djust for birth date.

Don’t worry guve it another three - 4 weeks and things will change z

Both mine were sleeping through tonight from about three months