my 2 wk old dd won't sleep between midnight and 6am....help!!!

[daisybo]

oh my god is this normal? she feeds 2 hourly (breast fed) but won't sleep in between feeds at night time, every time we put her in her cot she cries. she's not hungry or windy or dirty nappy and i just don't know why she won't sleep at night - she sleeps beautifully all day!!
i'm losing my mind as i'm not getting any sleep and i have a 3 yr old who gets up at 6.30am so i can't even sleep during the day (he doesn't go to a playgroup or anything)
i've tried a dummy and she justr spits it out...is there ANYTHING i can do?!

co-sleeping saved me. my little ones never slept in cots but at least next to me they were relaxed and I could sleep. best wishes xxx

Have you tried putting her to sleep on your/DH's chest or swaddling her and sleeping next to her?

I always try to put myself in their shoes. She is used to a confined space with all the sounds and smells of her mummy around her. Maybe she just feels a little lonely and exposed in her cot. I'd either swaddle her or stick her on my chest/tummy to sleep.

My DS's especially loved sleeping on our chests/tummy's at this age. Failing that we swaddled them and slept next to them so they didn't feel insecure.

HTH

def swaddle, i also found using the top i had been wearing that day as a sheet for the moses basket helped as they can still smell you on it. obv not if its dirty! change a couple of hours before you want to go to bed so you have time to rub smell onto clean top

Maybe you are already doing this, but make sure you keep the light as low as poss (if not off), don't talk or do anything other than feed. Hopefully soon she'll begin to know the difference between night and day.

yeah would def recommend swaddling - and perhaps your LO has gotten her days and nights mixed up? This happened with out LO and I read somewhere that its good to make sure they have some good waketime after they feed in the day then good naps - but make sure the naps are not too long (think it said make sure they are less than 2 hours). This did eventually work for us.. poor you but good luck!

If she sleeps beautifully all day this is probably the problem - you need to keep her awake for longer periods during the day so her long sleeps are transferred to night time

Swaddle or co-sleep. Its pretty normal for a 2 week old though. They dont understand the difference between night and day. Its a rough ride the first couple of months with a newborn, but, it does get easier