Days and nights reversed

[beginnings]

Dd2 is only six days old (yes yes I know she's tiny ) but we already have a pattern where she's sleeping beautifully during the day, having to be woken for feeds etc, and sleeps either in the Moses basket or bouncer or car etc etc to night time where from 10 onwards she wants to be fed every couple of hours and will only sleep on one of us. We're knackered. DD1 was a nightmare with wind and used to scream all evening but would sleep in her own bed from 10 til 2 so we've no experience of this. Can anyone offer advice to help her get her days the right way up??

I would say between weeks 1&4 both of my dds got mixed up, the way we solved it in the end..

Daytime have as much noise as you can bare loads going on tv / radio all the time then when you are looking for nighttime to begin you pop her in moses basket upstairs in the dark quiet room and keep it that way until morning

Works eventually but I think its definitely something every baby does

Thanks pickle. Problem is there is loads of noise in the day (she has a 16mo old sister!) and I was wondering if she was finding it too quiet at night! We'll figure it out....

Do you have an ipad or something like it? There is an app for white noise which we played throughout the night for dd2 who would not settle at night. It did really help

I was thinking about buying euan the sheep but the iPad suggestion is a really good one. I ended up re learning how to feed lying down last night!! Meant we got more sleep but not something I want to encourage!

We have ewan for a while and to be honest the ipad appwas much better as you can have it on for hours ewan is only 20 minutes.

Good point. I'll go for the app. Thanks!

Really common and just something that happens. You can't sleep train. I found this phase really hard because our dd was so alert and beautiful all night but i wasn't enjoying her waking hours because i was just thinking 'go the fuck to sleep!'. For us nothing we did helped this but gradually she started to sleep more at night. I'd say about 8 weeks, she was mostly sleeping during the night (although still waking to feed every 2 hours).
It's always a phase and it will always sort itself out. 6 days is so tiny and you won't even remember this in a few months. The newborn phase is just something you have to survive when it's like this.

I think getting out in the daylight every day with your LO can help too...something about the sunlight setting her circadian rhythms and helping her learn about daytime/nighttime. I think it works even if she is asleep? Walk in buggy in the afternoon might help?

You have my sympathy though. DS was like this until about 3 weeks old and it was hideous as I couldnt sleep during the day (too anxious, first time mum!) and I ended up barely surviving on about 2 hours sleep in every 24h. Awful. It did pass though, I think it was a devleopmental thing but I do think the daylight helped.