Baby wants to play after 2am feed

[laughingeyes2013]

Every night.

I'm up for 2 hours min, 3 hours max in one go Every. Single. Night.

Advice anyone?!

Let me add, feed is done with no lifts on beside his cot. No eye contact, no talking.

Baby is laid back down but bobs head up to look around and grunts but eventually gets louder until he cries.

No amount of winding makes a jot of difference.

He is acting just like he does when he's finished with a daytime nap.

Ps - He's 5.5 months old, corrected age 4 months

Hm... I must say I personally am not a fan of the no lights, no eye contact technique. Maybe try the opposite - he may want the reassurance of seeing you and interacting with you and then go down again more quickly.

Mine (16 weeks) is a little bit like that occasionally giggling on the changing table in the middle of the night, clearly willing to play. Mine is a little bit like that when he has a night feed. I am just tough and put him back down - usually after 10 minutes of moaning and crying he is off with the fairies again!

So I would say just don't give in!

I'm not too happy with the idea of leaving him to cry very long especially because he has croup and his lungs don't sound good normally ATM, but are much worse when he cries.

He's kind of got me over a barrel at the moment, cheeky little hamster!

Ha! I had just come on here to post about exactly this!

No advice but some solidarity that my 21 week EBF DD is doing exactly the same and has been most nights for the last month or so.

We have tried earlier bedtime, later bedtime, more daytime sleep, less daytime sleep, more feeding throughout the day... nothing makes a single jot of difference, she is simply awake for 2ish hours after waking for a feed. If we encourage her, she will even lie with her eyes closed sucking the dummy trying to nod off but it just doesn't happen until the 2 hour mark just like when she wakes during the day.

We have given up with with the no lights, eye contact, talking, etc., long ago and instead we keep things low key but we do get up with her until she gets tired again and we go to bed early in anticipation of losing a few hours sleep in the night.

It is undoubtedly shit.

Hello

My DD is 15days old and feeding every hour sometimes only going 45mins between feeds.
She will sleep in the day but at night will not go down after 1am.
Me and husband are exhausted!

Any advice?

I'm afraid that sounds normal Lindsey and you just have to just ride it out. This newborn period doesn't last very long and the advice that you should sleep when baby sleeps whatever the time is very good advice.

Had a great plan from my health visitor.

I did a sleepy feed at 12 midnight (was meant to be hungry baby formula but I was full of milk so give him that first, then he took 2 oz hungry baby formula after!).

Then when he woke at 3, I tried to settle him with a dummy, but it only worked for 15/20 minutes so I have some boiled and cooled water in a bottle. He drank an ounce then settled back to sleep. No trying to play and no vomiting.

Next wake was 6:30am for a feed and to start the day. He was hungrier in the day and so took more milk, hopefully reversing the nocturnal habits!

I was quite encouraged by this and will let you know how it goes. It certainly seems to be the right thing because the night feed was likely to be a habit rather than a physical need as it was the only feed he vomited back up which suggests he didn't need it.

Lindsey - I was told once that with a young baby you should let them sleep too long in the daytime - to make sure they have a feed every 3 hours IN THE DAY.

This means they will learn to sleep longer at night when the time comes later, but you can't expect that immediately. Best thing you can do is make the day the day (and not the night) with feeds. You don't have to forever, just in the beginning.