Awake with newborn, anyone else? :)

[Jellybean2017]

My little boy is nine days old. He sleeps pretty well during the day but at night just wants to be held and breastfed. He doesn't settle in his moses basket at night (but he will quite often do so during the day)

Anyone else up doing the same?! I'm not keen on the idea of co-sleeping but would be grateful for any advice. Baby sleeps in a gro-snug and we have a dream sheep but I'm guessing this frequent feeding and love of cuddles in the night is probably just par for the course at this early stage? 😊 I am napping during the day so I'm probably averaging about 6 hrs sleep in a 24 hr period.

Wake up #1 here.
Fingers crossed 🤞 for a good night everyone 😬

In a leap here although cheering me sleep deprived self up with cuddling her lots. Sounds like some good nights for lots of you xx

Last night was normal. Wake up at midnight, 2:30 and 5am.

We ended up bedsharing at 3am thanks to DH being a total elephant in the bed and waking DD up just as I had transferred her

Hey everyone, my ebf DS 12 days has actually been sleeping pretty good at night and I feed at approx midnight, 3am, 6am and then st about 9am. But today he is a total boob monster! I’ve fed pretty much every hour since he’s been up.. could this be a growth spurt thing? He had gained weight v quickly and was already above birth weight at 9 days so had been feeding really well. Is this just normal?!

Terrible grammar from me there: sleeping pretty well, I mean!

Could be. Who really knows?
Just keep feeding because your dc obvs needs it.

Gimble maybe your lo is turning into a boob monster

Last night I was the one who woke DD up for a change I needed the toilet and jumped back into bed too loudly.
She did 4.5hrs initially and probably would have done longer.

She was shattered as we ended up going to A&E with her strange lookin poo as nhs direct sent us there... I'll spare you the details, but it turned out to be nothing.

Thanks @AMagdalena, he got better throughout the day and is now feeding better than before. Think he’s got conjunctivitis now though.. luckily the MW is coming tomorrow! How old is your LO? A and E is not a nice place to be with a baby, glad it was nothing though.

Joining the party for a bit of reassurance! Baby boy is 7 weeks old today and it’s just taken me over an hour to soothe him to sleep because he gets overtired and just gets so upset 😔 I get stressed because when he’s like this he hates being held by anyone including me and he refuses to latch and it’s heartbreaking and hard not to take personally! Fortunately we’ve only let it happen a few times but damn we’ve gotta work out what his cues are!
Other than that he’s a total dream and even though the nights are tough, they’re so worth it. I do miss sleep though 😅

@Gimble, My DD is 12 weeks, so not a newborn, technically, but can certainly still act like one!

Grumpy goose my 8 week old is the same. He takes ages to settle before his slightly longer sleep at night. It’s known as the Witching Hour. I don’t know if your son/daughter cries during this time too but my son does. The crying is less now but it used to go on for ages. I have found swaddling helps a lot as well as patience haha.

Does anyone else find the transfer from breast/bottle and back to bed after a night feed (any feed tbh) difficult? It’s nearly 4am and my son has been feeding and sleeping since 3. If I put him down he wakes up but falls asleep on me. Idk how to get him to settle in his cocoonanest. We are away and staying in a hotel for a few days so in this unfamiliar bed I cannot attempt co sleeping.

Tricky. He might have air bubbles that make him uncomfortable when you lay him flat? Is he a windy baby? Sometimes I find either winding or cuddling upright for 5 mins helps and then transfer.

My baby son still won’t sleep for longer than an hour at night. Does anyone find the sleep gets worse as the night goes on??!? I can only put down at the beginning of the night and even that takes about 2 hours. :(

Loving, yes. Ds settles more easily at 12 and 2:30 but at 5am he needs cuddles.**

Yep same! Each sleep is shorter than the last and he’ll often end up in bed with me if it’s after six am.

Same here too. Getting a bit of a pattern where he wakes 1.30/3/4.30/5.30, with a longer sleep 10-1.30...

Poor us! Jelly that sounds about right. At 5am I’m lucky if I get 45mins.

At 5am I struggle too. She just wants to feed for hours then!

Wow. I guess I’m surprised at how many of us are the same! I guess it makes sense though, for the to want to tank up again after longer sleeps.

It’s made me think though. Maybe my ds is more awake then and more restless. Maybe he’s waking up at 5am and just snoozing after that rather than actually sleeping 🤔

LovingTyrells my baby’s sleep defo worsens as the night goes on.

Hashtagtired He isn’t a very windy baby but I sometimes lay him down before I get a burp up from him. That could make a real difference. Thank you!

SameJellybean!!

It’s so great to know that my baby’s sleeping patterns are similar to other babies’ patterns. Apparently frequent wakings are good for preventing SIDS. My baby gets so noisy during his restless early morning sleeps..

My baby slept through from 9 to 1 last night. I got to watch the Apprentice without any screaming which was kind of a big deal.