My 2week old won't sleep at night

[Spudders]

My 2 week old loves to sleep during the day but when it comes to nighttime she is wide awake. She will fall to sleep in our arms after having a feed but as soon as we put her in her mosses basket she is wide awake and screaming, I was up with her for 5 hours last night trying to get her to sleep. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, will this get any better? Will she grow out of it or am I going to have a night owl for a child? Please help me!!!!

You're not doing anything wrong, she will grow out of it. It will get better, I promise.

She's so tiny, you just have to go with the flow for now.

Normal I'm afraid, they often mix up night and day at the beginning. Persevere, make sure daytime are noisy and active and night times are dark and quiet, and she'll get there eventually! DD2 is 5 weeks and has now realised that night is for (kind of) sleeping! Have you tried using white noise?

Normal. She's tiny! She has no idea what day or night is. It will get better. We got a co-sleeper crib, which helped a lot (DD never would go in a Moses basket) and also took turns sitting up holding her during the night

Ps congratulations!

Oh, and have you tried swaddling? That helped too.

your 2 week old doesn't know what night is and doesn't know what sleep is. It'll come!

It's normal takes them a few weeks to adjust but she will get there.

Up until two weeks ago, she was used to being rocked to sleep in the day as you moved around and wake at night when you were still in bed.

Keep day time light and bright with normal noise, and nights dark and quiet -night light, minimal talking.

I used to turn off the lights and turn tv really low. Then I'd put dd in in the Moses basket downstairs on the floor where she could see me.

That's brought back vivid memories of her little face peeking at me in the darkness.

She'd often settle down to sleep, then we'd carry the basket upstairs.

Oh yes...been there, struggled through that! Much sympathy but be reassured that it won't last. We are 7 weeks now and DD sleeps in her moses basket quite happily.

What we did:

DH and I took it in turns to stay up with DD, taking her downstairs to cuddle her whilst the other slept. Obvs best if your oh is on paternity leave of course!

We started to try out the pram carry cot. She'd sleep a bit in that as long as it was next to the sofa.

We warmed up the carry cot and then the moses basket with a hot water bottle before she was placed in it. We also used a noise and light show toy as I have her her final feed, and also a white noise app on our phones.

Swaddling was suggested but DD does not like her arms to be trapped!

When people told me to 'enjoy' this time and the cuddling I thought they were mad, but a few weeks on I can confirm that's the best thing you can do! Remember she's just come out of the womb, it's all so very new to her. It will get better

I'm going through exactly the same, my ds is 3 weeks old now and the past few days has only seemed to sleep if he's cuddled by me or dh. Am trying swaddling and ewan the dream sheep while he's in his moses basket! Hopefully it improves for you soon!

We're 4wks and this is how we 'programmed' DS:

TV on in the background all day, blinds open, lots of chatting to him all day (absolute b**cks mostly!), lots of eye contact during feeds

Darkness & silence from approx 8pm to 8am, no eye contact or chatter, no nappy changes unless really needed

Bedtime routine - 7pm ish bath, massage with Earth Friendly Baby Chamomile lotion (the smell makes ME sleepy now, by association!), into bodysuit & grobag, given a feed in our bedroom in total darkness & silence & then put downstairs in the moses basket to sit with Daddy until he comes up to bed at 11pm (my nap opportunity for a few hours!)

In the morning I brightly say 'good morning' and chat to him while I change his nappy & outfit, then we go downstairs for a feed in front of BBC Breakfast.

This method has worked from about a week old, at night he tends to feed at 7.30 ish, 11ish, then usually only 1-2 times in the early hours. Not exactly 'sleeping through', but lets me snatch a few little naps each night & his weight is gaining nicely!

My baby is also 2 weeks old and after a few nights of cuddling her on the sofa trying to settle her in the carrycot, I was advised by about three different feeding consultants to just try co sleeping. We have a bedside crib (snuzpod) so she can't roll off the bed or anything (not that she can roll yet) and she sleeps like a dream, I wake her for a feed every three hrs and she goes straight back to sleep. I never thought I would co sleep, the thought terrified me, but they are still so tiny and want to be close to you and hear your heartbeat, it's the most natural place for them to be at this age imo. There haven't always been cots. It's much safer to co sleep (as long as you meet the safe sleeping criteria, ie don't smoke, drink, take medication, and baby is exclusively breastfed) than to try and stay away on the sofa. You will eventually fall asleep and you risk the baby slipping into the sofa.