three week old up all night

[emmybaird]

My 3 week old is awake most nights either from 10-5am or if I'm lucky 2am-5am. I am breast feeding and during this time awake she just wants to be nursed. During the dat she will sleep happily no matter what noise there is-I did the hoovering yesterday with her in the baby bjorn and she slept throughout. I try and keep night time quiet and dark and day time noisy and bright, andhave tried the no cry sleep suggestions with no change so far. During the day she wakes up evey 3 hrs for a feed and is alert for only an hour or so appart for feeding. Any suggestions on how to go from here?? Also is it ok to sleep during the day when she sleeps or is that going to make her even more nocternal. She is fully breast fed and at her last weigh in she had out on 7 onz in a week.

Sleep when she sleeps - she's only three weeks old and I don't think you can make her more nocturnal but you can at least save your sanity!

Take her out in the early afternoon. Being exposed to light at this time is supposed to help them work out what's day and what's night. Otherwise yes, sleep when she does!

My 6 week old seemed to work out that she was supposed to sleep more at night some time between 4 and 5 weeks. Hopefully yours will work it out soon!
Until then try and sleep for at least an hour during the day and rest as much as you can - the housework can wait

Think they can be quite nocturnal at this age and personally found it impossible to keep a sleepy baby awake. Keeping my DD a bit cooler in the day seemed to help (I don't mean cold!). If it's any comfort I thought I'd never get a good nights sleep again but bit by bit it does improve, they start sleeping longer at night, then start dropping feeds...then you start getting sleep!

She's only tiny, she will get there, forget the housework and go to sleep yourself even if it's a 20 min catnap on the sofa, your body (and sanity) will thank you for it!