Baby waking every hour!

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Hi, I am a first time mum to my baby girl who is 9 weeks old. She is waking up every hour through the night, I was thinking she was waking hungry but she doesn’t want a bottle every time she wakes, she has 4-5 oz every 2 to 3 hours throughout the day. And is taking a bottle around every 2 hours during the night. She did a couple of weeks of 3 hours stretches of sleep at night but that’s now changed :( exhausted.

she only seems to settle in my arms. She sleeps in a sleep bag but I was thinking of getting a love to dream swaddle to make her feel more secure, is 9 weeks too late for that?

I was gifted a sleepy head and have been using this for supervised naps during the day as I believe they are not suitable for overnight sleeps - she seems to settle in this well.

any tips on getting her to sleep better please?

thanks!

Try everything as long as you know it's safe just give it all a go.

In the end I attached the rockit rocker to the Moses basket and she would start to settle in the Moses overnight. She hated the next to me as it was too big

Huckleberry app to track naps and wake windows is good too, might be time to try that in due course, that helped us a lot as it helped them not get too much or too little sleep, so that it optimised night time sleep

Oh I'm sorry OP it's so hard but sounds so normal, it will all change so much I promise. There's a good article by Sarah Hockwell Smith (am sure that's her name I'm having a mind blank) if you google baby sleep is not linear, that helped me understand it was all normal.

Not too late to try a love to dream swaddle, I used them for both of mine, do all of the things like PP said, white noise, dark dark room, mine also found the next to me too big so we used the Moses basket until they were a bit bigger.

If you can try to settle her in her Moses basket then she might fall asleep and not startle when you put her down, you could try patting and shushing her laying down, set a timer on your phone (a silent one) for 5mins so you give it a proper go otherwise you might think 45seconds has been ages and give up

The startle reflux will go soon, your right the sleepyhead isn't for unsupervised sleep but they can sleep in the bassinet of the pram (as long it's suitable from birth and sleeping) so you could do that if you don't have a Moses, I used to rock mine in the pram and then put that vibrating rocket thing on to keep it going while I got some sleep

Sleep deprivation is so tough and it sounds like you are doing an excellent job with baby.
Have you ruled out reflux/ silent reflux making her uncomfortable?
Would you consider co-sleeping if she just wants to be close? I know it’s a real divide if you find it a lifeline or you just get totally touched out.

I also have a 9 week old. The things that make the most difference for us are the rockit and the love to dream swaddle up.

It is normal though for sleep to go through periods of being better and worse. I'm sure you will go back longer sleeping longer periods.