How do I get her to sleep???

[Geordiebabe85]

my LG is 2 weeks old. In the day she sleeps well and happily goes into her crib. But nighttime is another matter! From about 10pm she just cries and nothing soothes her. She will not be put down in her crib for more than 2 minutes.
Any ideas on either how to soothe her or how to get her into her crib?

She has day/night confusion. Until she adjusts it will probably be a struggle. I would suggest just doing what you can re feeding, cuddling, rocking but try and sleep during the day yourself if you can.

My baby was exactly the same at 2 weeks and YouTube came to my rescue with videos on the 5 S's - though I can only remember three of them now (!) but they are three that worked wonders: swaddling, sucking (babies love to suck so give her a dummy to help settle - it also tires them out) and sushing (or other white noise). I also stopped her taking too long a sleep in the day and when she did sleep I made sure it was somewhere light with lots of noise, and would wake her for a feed every three hours. Then night sleeping I made sure to dim the lights and have no noise to help her distinguish the difference. I'd also give her a bigger feed to get her 'milk drunk'. This transformed the nights for us, and she's now 6 weeks and going to bed is a piece of cake. Bath or a book at 8.30, last feed at 9.00 and she's knocked out and in a deep sleep by 9.30. The other thing to note is it takes babies 10-15 minutes to get into a deep sleep, so if you put her down before she'll likely wake, so hold/rock her after eyes closed until you are certain she's in deep sleep (my ones arms would go all droopy when she was in a deep sleep and if I could lift her arm and drop it without her waking I knew I was safe to put her down!) But worth YouTube'ing it as that honestly transformed the nights for us the moment we tried it!