Over tired baby

[goldenT]

Hi
My little boy is 5 weeks old and for the past week he is sleeping very lightly in the day time the slightest sound wakes him then by the evening his grumpy and just won't settle to sleep although he can bearly keep his eyes open he will just be crying sometime it can take ages to finally get him to sleep, I've tired giving him a bath with Johnson lavender to help relax him but it doesn't work I've taken him out in the pram he doesn't go to sleep yet if I'm going out he will sleep as soon as the pram moves, I'm just looking for ideas to help him relax or settle as I'm now starting to dread the evening as he cry's so much and really get himself in a state

Try sleep help. The machine that makes a constant noise like a fan or heartbeat toy.

There is a website called precious little sleep which has loads of tips. At 5 weeks it says you should be putting down for a nap after about one hour of awake time. Our little one is 5 weeks as well and also surprisingly resistant to sleeping in the pram. Our main way of getting her to nap is putting her in a sling and as pp said, using white noise.

Do you have a car? Driving him around for a bit in the car seat often makes them fall to sleep. The pram didn’t work for me either, however the car seat in the pram frame did work (if you have one of those)

Mine was like that at a similar age, it was like he had suddenly realised there was a world around him and didn’t want to sleep but desperately needed to. It did get better after a couple of weeks

Good luck

Hi OP congratulations on your new baby at this stage, babies don’t know the difference between day and night and they just wake up every couple of hours or so. How does he go to sleep (on you, in Moses basket?), does he feed to sleep? I would say you need to start doing a routine if you can and stick to it. Try sitting in a darkened room and a dummy if you haven’t tried that. Sometimes bright light can be a bit over-stimulating!

With DD 8 months, at night we did bath, feed to sleep in dark room then once she was asleep I put her straight into the Moses basket. For daytimes she sleeps on me (some people don’t approve of this but it works for us).

But hang in there, it’s definitely tough those first few weeks while baby starts to make sense of the world!

Thank you all he normally gets sleepy when feeding he can go to sleep when I'm winding him, sometimes when I'm rocking him in his bouncy chair, he has the odd occasion fallen a sleep himself in his bouncy chair, he sleeps in a next to me crib in a sleepyhead, it's always the evening it's a mission to get him to sleep but once he in deep sleep he will sleep well, the pram he has no problem sleeping in that when we go out it's just when he is over tired, sadly no I don't drive, I have tried white noise it doesn't seem to make a difference I think he just to far unsettled, tonight I had to rock him in my arms and wait till he was in deep sleep before I put him down, I find the day time he is a light sleeper