My baby has just turned 4 weeks (first baby) and am struggling with sleep at night. He sleeps a fair amount in the day still but is starting to have more and more awake time.
At night, he settles ok in his basket once he’s asleep and we put him down.
I can then drift off for a couple of hours then he will wake for a feed. It’s after this I’m struggling to get him and me back to sleep.
I’ve been feeding him (I’m bottle feeding), sitting him upright for a bit and burping him. I was worried burping and putting him back down to sleep too quickly wouldn’t be good so I’m usually up with him for about an hour in the night, the actual feed will take 10-15 mins.
Am I keeping him up out his basket for too long?
When I do put him down and go back to bed he is SO noisy, grunting, moving about and just generally making noises and I just cannot go back to sleep. I’m just waiting for him to cry which he inevitably does.
Last night, he woke for a feed at 2am, fed him and put him back down by just after 3am. He then started crying just before 4, that hour he had been down he was so noisy with whatever noises he’s making there’s no chance of me getting to sleep.
Do I just need to accept this is how it is for now or am I doing something wrong?
when he woke at 4 last night, I held him and he then fell asleep but by the time that happened it was 5/6am and light outside. He then slept on my chest for an hour.
I’m so tired. My partner is helpful in the day but doesn’t function well on little sleep and can’t nap in the day so I’ve been doing the night feeds then I can nap in the day, however that doesn’t always happen depending on what we are doing and I also don’t want to spend my partners paternity leave sleeping in the day, he goes back to work on Wednesday.
sorry for the long winded post, I just need some advice! Thank you