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9 week old won't sleep

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Dunnowhattosay1 · 22/01/2022 08:08

Hi. Just wondering if anyone is in the same boat as me... My 9 year old just won't sleep for longer than a coupke of hours during the night. Hell sleep no problem through the day for a coupke of hours and won't be woken by the normal household noise etc. Come night time it's a different ball game. From about 8om onwards, he's awake, unsettled and won't go to sleep. When we eventually get him to sleep by pacing the floors carrying him, (after the 11!12om feed) he'll sleep till about 2 then wake, gets fed, might take half an hour to go back to sleep but Could be up again at 4/4.30 then possibly 6 and then 8. These are just examples. The times vary. Midwife told us initially he'd sort himself out by. About 6 weeks and is just confused by day and night we took comfort in that bit at 9 weeks there is no sign of it changing. The health visitor said irs not normal to have to pace the floors with him and that he should at this point be sleeping for longer stretches in the evening. She said. 12-5 or 1-4 for example before waking for a feed. Wrce. Never had this. Hell fall asleep on me or hubby but once we lay him in his crib hell wake straight and start screaming till he's lifted and walked about again. He does have silent reflux so I know there's an element of that Could be to blame but it seems strange that during the day he'll sleep for hours, moses basket, car seat, swing chair etc but at night he's awake, alert and wanting carried about. Hubby has to sleep downstairs with him as wrve a 4 and 6 year old who have to get up for school. 9 weeks later and we haven't slept in the same bed once. We are exhausted. Surely there has to be something more to it than silent reflux... Waking every 2 hours is just crazy compared to the day routine. He squirms and flails about when he's put in until it develops into crying when we eventually have to lift him out. Can someone shed any light on this? I'd have expected some kind of improvement at this stage?!

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Dunnowhattosay1 · 22/01/2022 08:56

I meant 9 week old in the main text!

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lilroo87 · 22/01/2022 09:05

This is complete normal for a baby. They're just waking cause they need to be close to you. I co-slept with my little girl until she was 5 weeks old as she wouldn't sleep unless I held her. She then started sleeping in her next to me bed but I wouldn't get long stretches. I tend to feed her to sleep but have done pacing/rocking basically whatever she needs to be able to fall asleep. It is really tough but that's what babies are like, some people are very lucky and their babies just sleep.
I thought my little girl was doing ok when she started only waking twice but then she hit 4 months where their sleep changes and she was waking every hour, we're now at every 2 hours and she's 6 months.
It's quite normal for babies to not sleep through the night until they're 1-2years old and even then some struggle.
There are quite a few sleep accounts I follow on Instagram so one of them may be able to help you with why they sleep better in the day and if it is just reflux or something more:
@foxandthemooninfanstsleep
@lyndsey_hookway
@littlenestsleep
@heysleepybaby

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