Sleep

[kelli22]

i cant be the only one with questions about newborns sleep, ok i must be which hopefully means the rest of you have answers

how are your newborns sleeping? and how do you keep them awake during the day?

thanks

You dont. There is absolutely no way to keep them awake at such an early age. Its hard work for a few weeks but it turns around eventually. Newborns sleep most of the time - daytime included. (It just feels like they sleep less at night).

You will find two schools of thought - ones who go for the Gina Ford routine type thing (baby still sleeps plenty but you wake baby if still asleep at certain times etc. Feed at specific times). Or those who feed and allow sleep on demand.

Im an on demand type myself.

Sorry - not much help but im assuming you have a normal newborn who feeds every couple of hours and sleeps mostly inbetween.

I have 2 btw and my DD 2.6yrs and DS 6mths both sleep fine nowadays and both slept through the night (11-13 hours solid no waking) from 11/12 weeks which is pretty good.

newborns have thier own sleep pattern. We started ds on a routine at around 9wks and even then it had to be flexible. He is 2 next week and has been a fab sleeper from about 5mths. Will do the same with db.

ohh not the news i wanted, thanks though jess is 6days old (ok so im expecting too much) i do have 6yr old dd but when she was born i slept when she slept but i cant do that this time.

jess sleeps all day but not at night - at all unless she's being held, sleeps fine in her moses basket during the day but as soon as you put her in at night she screams, at the min me and dp are taking it in turns to stay up with her. She's feeding fine, at least 2n half oz every couple of hours........

Have you tried swaddling?

i tried it with dd1 but i woke up to find she'd turned on her front n was amost suffercating so i didnt like to, tho jess is a bit too small to turn and i spose i could loosen it before i go to sleep, anything has to be better than staying up all night, the other night she was awake from 9pm to 5am screaming unless we fed her or held her neither of us got any sleep.........

She should be okay at this age. Its hard but it does get better. At least your DP is being supportive and you can do it in shifts.

Sorry, cant be much more help than that really!

Just to let you know i've swaddled her and though she hasnt fallen asleep yet she is in her moses basket quietly looking around (great result), she grizzles every 5 mins and i put her dummy in but im going to feed her and hopefully she should fall alseep once her tummy is full up and then i can sleep and not wake dp up (need to sort out a plan before he goes back to work) so i really hope this is going to work thanks for your help and you're right at least my dp is supportive im very lucky

aww swaddling worked with ds..also I would raise the top of his moses basket a little like the tilting in the hospital cots..dont know why but it always helped..lol

Actually - swaddling never worked for mine but the tilting the moses basket did . Forgot about that Nemo - and my DS is only 6 mths! Time flies.