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How to get my 4 week old to sleep at night

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BruceAndMarley · 21/09/2020 17:58

It feels weird being on the parenting side of MN. It felt like forever being on the conception page and then pregnancy side. After a rough PG and labour ended in EMCS, our daughter was born on 26th August, so she’s almost 4-weeks-old . She’s a very needed baby, and we are currently in hospital as she has GERD and i am suffering from PND. I have so many questions but my main one is, she will not tolerate being put down for more than 10 minutes in her next to me crib at bed time. In the day I wear a sling to get stuff done but at night she will only sleep on me (or a warm body) & not anywhere else. Obviously I love cuddles and they give me a connection with her during this PND but we are getting no sleep as she screams and then we have her in our bed but it’s really not safe due to me being epileptic and my DH being a very deep sleeper. We also only have a double bed so can’t spread out to make more room. Might be relevant to add I am Breastfeeding but learning to express so we can try a bottle with her at night. Do any of you have a night routine with your newborns (or did you), am I missing something ? I feel like a terrible mum.

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NameChange30 · 22/09/2020 12:00

With DC1 I think we introduced a bottle when he was about a month old, that felt about right because breastfeeding was going well (after a tough first few weeks) and it wasn't too late for him to accept the bottle. Later he went through one or two phases of refusing it but DH persevered and he continued having the occasional bottle for ages.

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