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Baby hasn't slept in 10+ hours

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titnomatani · 06/03/2020 22:31

Please help.

I have a 10 week old who has been a dream in terms of sleep- I've frequently woken up with a soaking tshirt in the mornings because he's not woken up for a feed during the night. He's also regularly napped for 2+ hours at a time during the day. I haven't got a clue what's happened today but he's been up since 12:15pm and will not sleep even though he's desperately wanting to :/ I've tried changing his clothes in case he's too hot/cold, taking him to the park for a long walk, using white noise/patting/singing/using a dummy and anything else I can think of to get him to sleep but nope, he's been wide awake. The only thing that works briefly is feeding him (exclusively BF)- he'll fall asleep on me and almost drift off but then wake up again. I've winded him, kept him close to me until I think he's asleep but he'll then wake up crying a few minutes later. He's a happy baby in that when me or my DH have changed his nappy, he's looked at us and smiled and cooed but cried again when we've left him to play on his may/in his bouncer. Can anyone shed some light on what's happening/what else I can do to get him to sleep? I've got PND and this is killing me. I just need a break.

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titnomatani · 06/03/2020 23:57

Anyone?

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itsallthedramaMickiloveit · 06/03/2020 23:58

I'm sorry for your struggles. It's shit.
Unfortunately it sounds completely normal. There is no quick fix. He sounds like a healthy baby.

Just keep going and rest when you can.

AlunWynsKnee · 07/03/2020 00:01

Oh lord I have no idea but I am reading! Perhaps he's having some sort of developmental leap?

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Hugsandpastries · 07/03/2020 10:06

You’ve probably has this suggested a million times but have you tried a sling?

titnomatani · 07/03/2020 10:08

It is shit. He eventually fell asleep around 11:45pm. Not before I raised my voice at him :/ I feel like such a bitch. I'm really struggling at the moment and don't know what to do. I'm hoping we don't have a repeat of yesterday.

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titnomatani · 07/03/2020 10:09

I've got a sling- it didn't work yesterday :/

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AnchorDownDeepBreath · 07/03/2020 10:11

Is DH around to take some of the pressure off today? I know you can’t escape too far as you’re exclusively feeding, but every little counts...

I hope today is better Flowers

itsallthedramaMickiloveit · 07/03/2020 10:35

It does get better. My DD2 loves to commit to her screaming.
3 times she has been up all night. She went to sleep finally at 8 am. When the other two were up and needed breakfast.
No breaks. Just constant screaming.

Don't worry. She can't understand.
I've asked my baby why she's being a twat. She didn't have a good answer.

BecauseReasons · 07/03/2020 10:48

Babies are wonderful aren't they?

"I'm really miserable!!'
"Why, baby?"
"I'm tired!"
"Um... Then sleep?"
"I CAN'T! I'M TOO TIRED!"

🙄

If you can get him to sleep, then keep hold of him. Don't put him down. You need him to sleep enough so that he is no longer overtired- he'll wake too easily in this state to be put down.

shutupsteph · 07/03/2020 11:57

Have you tried a swaddle? My DS was the same a few weeks ago but only 4 weeks. Wouldn't sleep for longer than a few minutes and was working himself and us up and the only thing that got him settled and asleep was a really tight swaddle, a dummy and loud white noise!

Hope it goes better today x

Grouphugs · 07/03/2020 12:27

Don't feel bad. I told my DS to fuck off when he was about that age and I don't even regret it.

I hadn't slept in days. He doesn't remember. I apologised to him in the morning.

It's a decent way of venting and it does no harm.

Lowbrow · 07/03/2020 12:45

Try lullabies OP, they are very soothing. I have seen babies in a hospital ward all go off to sleep listening to lullabies.

Bol87 · 07/03/2020 20:33

Sounds very normal unfortunately, that was my life with my newborn. She fought sleep like a demon. Sadly, even the happiest, well behaved babies will go through fussy phases. It’s def something to be prepared for.. there’s sleep regressions, teething & unknown fussiness! It won’t always be full nights sleep ..

Are you getting support for PND? Do you have friends & family around you to give you a break when you are feeling overwhelmed? You really sound like you are struggling, particularly feeling so bad things go differently to how you expect Sad

Remember, when it gets too much to step away & have a cry/scream/breather..

ememem84 · 07/03/2020 20:38

I had a moment like this with ds when he was 10 weeks (now 2.5) he refused to sleep. In the end I took him into dh (who was sleeping in the spare room at the time) at 5.15am saying “take this. It’s being a little prick”

Then I went back to bed and slept until about 830. Dh gave ds a bottle, soothed him to sleep made me a flask of tea and went to work.

No idea what happened. But it was utterly shit that day.

Thankfully Ds slept through from the day after.

BabbleBee · 07/03/2020 20:48

This brings back memories of DD, she was a sleep refuser and my word she nearly broke me. She’s a healthy 16yo now, so whatever I did worked.

Parenting is just making it up as you go along and doing the best you can at the time. Hopefully you’ve got support and been able to rest.

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