Hi all,
Wondered if I could get some advice as feeling very overwhelmed. I don’t know if this is normal newborn behaviour and wanted to see if anyone could share their experiences?
Baby girl is 5 days old and refuses to sleep except when being held. I’m exclusively breastfeeding and she’ll have a feed then go off to sleep but the minute you try to put her in the crib she wakes and screams. This is only in the day time - nighttime she constantly feeds and then won’t sleep at all! Wide awake.
I’m having to use nipple shields to feed her as I think her latch isn’t deep enough as my nipples are cracked and feeding was painful - midwife said that was fine but to seek help to get her back on the nipple ASAP. My partner wants to help so I tried to express and got nothing!
I don’t think I’ve slept properly since 2 days before she was born I laboured are home for 2 days then was kept in overnight on shared ward with no sleep. I’ve now also developed a viral infection a horrendous chesty cough that started after labour so feel awful. I don’t know how to get better.
I guess my ask is
Does anyone have any experience of baby refusing to sleep being put down? How did you manage it?
And constant feeding at night with no sleeping?
I feel like I’m doing something wrong