How do you get your 3 week old to sleep during the day?

[Hel1985]

Hi, how do people get their 3 week old to sleep during the day?
My little girl is 3 weeks old and wakes up and has a feed (FF) and then usually awake for about 15-20 minutes afterwards till she starts getting tired and squirming. I try to rock or swaddle her and she just gets frustrated and it can take up to 45 minutes to get her to sleep and then it's only for a little sleep. But if I offer her a feed after the 20 minutes interaction she will instantly take to the feed but only takes an oz then falls to sleep.
Am I doing something wrong and teaching her to feed to sleep or is she actually still hungry? A feed can take up to 30 minutes - 45 minutes.
Also adding she won't take to a dummy and have tried for 2 weeks now and still trying.
Any advice would really help xxx

Take her for a walk In her pram after her bottle ?

We were on a mission to sleep train DS so we swaddled and used a dummy (he did take it). With things like rocking or carrying, we gradually stopped doing it sooner and sooner, eg when he was asleep, when he was dozing off, when he looked tired etc. Finally, at about 10 weeks old, we were able to just put him down awake and he’d fall asleep by himself.

PS from what I remember, newborns need to learn to fall asleep. It isn’t something that just happens.

She definitely seems to be a baby that needs to suck to fall asleep. It's completely natural and a lot of young babies feed to sleep so it's nothing you're doing wrong. Have you tried different shaped dummies? Maybe look for one with a similar teat to bottle? Or just give her bottle teat if nothing else works? Although she may swallow air with this. Have you tried moving the dummy about to get her to accept it? I found wiggling it side to side helped my son to take it. Otherwise he loved to nap in his wrap. She may be getting over stimulated during awake time. Maybe just try having her watch you do chores rather than lots of interaction/colours/sounds. Good luck keep going you are doing great. On another note my son feeding to sleep really helped me out when he was older and anti nap. I could always count on a bottle to get him to sleep so it's not always a bad thing. You could try splitting feed. 2/3rds when waking up and then the other bit just before needing to nap.

Feeding to sleep is fine. From waking up I found mine would be awake for 90 mins before the next sleep so maybe leave it a bit longer before trying to settle her again.

Mine were always fed to sleep and then held or worn in a sling.

I fed DD to sleep and held her. It didn’t effect how she went to sleep when she was older.

At only 3 weeks you can feed to sleep, I did for the first 6 weeks and then started thinking about routine/sleep training. Offer her that extra oz during her feed and let her fall asleep. I found white noise great too.

Hiya Hel, I remember having the same problem! There was a decent internet website somewhere which I read and helped me out with this very same baby problem when DD was born. I'll have a search for the name. I found it for ya Hel. Newborn Advice

What about using a dummy if she likes to suck to sleep? I used to feed to sleep at that stage but was bf so less hassle than making a bottle that gets wasted. I think this is the ideal use of a dummy 😊