9 week will not sleep during day

[larlylou]

How do I get dd to sleep during the day. I have since learnt to swaddle her during the night which helps enormously (unless she gets free and that wakes her up immediately). She just will not settle for sleep at all in the day and at the moment is only sleeping when in motion (car, buggy, papoose) but as soon as you stop she's awake. She is soooooo overtired yet I can't leave her to cry to settle too long as she suffers from dreadful trapped wind. I am paranoid about getting into bad habits (ds1 was a dream baby compared and I do compare which is also very bad of me). Has anyone else gone/going through this. She does sleep well during night when settled and does a 7 hour stint before feed followed by a 3 hour (feeds every 3 hours during day).

my ds (16 wks) has never slept much during the day - after the first couple of weeks not even in the pram! Car travel will send him off, as will being in the baby björn. But my actual advice would be, if she's not unhappy (can't tell from your post) try and leave her to it! She is sleeping a long stretch at night for such a small baby - ds has only started 'going' 3-6 hours (it varies, he's bf on demand) in the last couple of weeks. Maybe it's the wind causing it, for which I'm not the expert at all. I do think (says she who's on her first baby ) that they find their own 'routine' eventually if there's nothing stopping them, though it might take aaaages!

My 9 week old is the same. She also has a similar night-time sleep pattern (sleeps eight hours then three on some nights).

The only solution we have tried so far is put down/pick up. We let her cry for about five minutes. It's hard work, not worth going downstairs as we'd be up and down like yoyos, but she does eventually fall asleep and will nap for up to an hour.

Will this help?

You know what really puzzles me? My daughter can sleep almost all day if we are in the car/in her pram. Yesterday she only really woke up for feeds when we were out on a trip. I was worried she wouldn't sleep last night, but she did her usual thing. Now if she can sleep that much, and still sleep at night, why doesn't she nap easily?

so you think it would be mean for me to do the pickup/putdown thing for my 9 week old baby in order for her to go down in the evenings?? she also suffers from trapped wind ...

as i type dd is on my knee wide awake but totally overtired. no wind but doesnt want a feed either so im gonna have to wait this one out a bit. shes too awake to try to put down and i dont want to wake my ds1 with her screaming - normally shed be in the land of nod by now! i think i will have to try the pick up/put down as more sleep means better sleep in my opinion. i just dont get why, if they are tired cant they shut their eyes and go to sleep... id love the chance!!

blossom2 - how are you dealing with the trapped wind, do you give her anythng? its a nightmare at times dont you find?

From what i've heard, you either get a good sleeper at night, and not in the day or the other way round. My 10 week old ds is EXACTLY the same, and it drives me insane!!! And i sometimes find myself clock watching, thinking, only 2 hours til his bed time etc... sounds awful i know, but ds also gets very bad wind, so if you put that and lack of sleep together, it makes for an EVIL day!!!!! But about 1 in every 4 days is a good one, and then he is so adorable he makes my heart melt!!

You have my sympathies.

we're using Infacol for the wind but doesn't seem to be making a difference. we're off to the doctors on saturday so will see what he says - the french are mad about drugs so no doubt she'll get something .....

i'm finding it really hard because she also wants comfort and doesn't want to sleep in her cot....

Has anyone tried the Baby Whisperer's advice?

I bought her book and haven't had many problems reading my babies cues when he's tired, etc.

I swaddle him and do a dream feed which all seems to be working for us. He's in a routine that I have set.

I definately recommend reading one of her (Tracy Hogg) books.