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Does it get easier?

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FirstT1meMum · 05/02/2024 12:03

DD is now 6 and half weeks old but seems to sleep worse now than when she was first born. She really struggles to go in her next to me and just seems to constantly wake herself up. Not sure if it feels worse as I do the majority of the night work as DH is working in the day.
She usually wakes at roughly 1am, 4am and 6am but is usually awake or fussy in-between these feeds.

Just wondering when sleep seemed to get better? I don't want to wish my time away but I just want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This is exhausting!

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Kosenrufugirl · 05/02/2024 12:06

Hi there, you could try Gentle Sleep Solutions by Elizabeth Pantley book (available on Amazon). Alternatively a Shush Pat method from Baby Wisperer Solves All Your Problems (it's a big book, I think the method is described on page 181, not 100% sure). I hope it helps

Superscientist · 05/02/2024 12:14

My daughter is 3.5 and she slept the best she has ever slept between 0 and 3 weeks old! She developed truly awful sleep due to severe reflux and food allergies and that was the cause of the poor sleep.

40% of babies at 8 weeks have reflux, for the majority of these babies it will be limited to some possessing after a feed and needing to be more asleep before they can be laid down to sleep. Holding them more upright or keeping them in the same position as the feed (this is what we had to do) can ease the reflux and help them to get into a deeper sleep and allow them to be put down.

My daughter was unhappy permanently by 12 weeks and because of this we needed to look into treatment and ultimately allergies.

kernowpicklepie · 05/02/2024 12:15

That is still so young and the first year or 2 is so up and down for sleep.
Have a look on Instagram at the following accounts as they will be brilliant help for your first year and beyond, they helped me when I was stressing about sleep.
Little nest sleep
Second star to the right
Lyndsey Hookway
Fox and the moon infant sleep

It's very normal for a baby to wake often in the night for feeds upto 12 months.
Neither of mine liked being too far from me so we co-slept as we all got way more sleep that way.

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