Help - sleep-phobic newborn

[Swannykazoo]

My lo is 7 days old and ebf. I just can't get him to sleep unless he's on the boob. I keep reading they should have a 2 hour sleep-wake feed cycle- all Im doing is feeding it seems. Plenty nappies of both sorts.
Basically fed all night every hour or so, so never actually got him to sleep. He's been awake most of the day and increasingly fractious. Please help - why can't i get him to sleep?

stopped due to screaming baby. Basically fed hourly from 11 for 30 mins or mre.. just tried a wee lie down and it was straight back to screaming and he's back on the boob- and he's better daytime than night...
onnly sleep involves him lyingon me so am freaked about overlaying

Just realised he's been up for nearly 5 hours with snoozes when feeding. No wonder he's grumpy (and I'm distraught) but screams in the cot, wouldn't even settle in bed after i'd cleared a space from duvets + pillows etc to make it safe, Please help -I'm in on my own, his dad's out

I can't help but sympathies. Mine was the same. It does pass and it's for the best as he's building a great supply. We used a dummy which helped and still ebf at 5 months so it didn't cause nipple confusion.

Also for daytime naps he would always sleep in the sling. It destroys any notion of sleeping when baby sleeps but as ds didn't anyway it was great. Also it stops him being overtired which can help with nights. My ds is now in a routine all thanks to the sling.

Have you tried lying down feeding?

Bsby is likely just getting the supply how they want it. Sounds perfectly normal. Although I know it's hard going!

Can you lie down and bf safely? It does get better my dd cluster fed each evening from 5 until 2am for a fortnight then just stopped and fell into her own little two and a half hour routine, quickly went to three hours and by the time she was 2 months old she was feeding every 3.5 hours and sometimes going longer over night.

I tried dd with a dummy because she was permanently wanting to suck and going crazy when I stopped. Sometimes I just needed half hour! That kind if helped for about a week or two and then she refused it but settled down.

Is dp out all night? Occasionally I used to give dd to dp and go and have a bath or something. She would generally calm a little not sure if it's something to do with being able to smell the milk

Thanks all - think it was the milk smell as he settled on dp when he gotin and finally slept - last night was a better night too phew....