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Baby wont sleep :(

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LadyRenoir · 15/01/2018 19:42

If anyone has any clues what to do, please, as I have not clue what we're doing wrong and at the end of my wits...
My baby boy was born premature, so spent the first three weeks mainly sleeping and waking up for meals. Now he tends to be a lot more awake, but... he spent the last 5 hours crying. Usually after the meal he falls asleep, or stay awake for a bit and then falls asleep.

But since yesterday, he is very unsettled, only calms down when we give him food, only has very little, but cries when we take it away, then wants more food, then spits it out. Does not seem comfortable when we cuddle him (a lot of wriggling, bumping his head against our chests). Did have two short naps on my and my partner in the end, but the moment we put him in his cot where he usually sleeps fantastically, he woke up within 3 minutes to start crying again.

What can we do to calm/settle him down?

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
GlennRheeismyfavourite · 15/01/2018 20:10

How old is he?

LadyRenoir · 15/01/2018 20:23

3 weeks.

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fannythrobbing · 15/01/2018 20:40

The first three months are tough, it could be colic, it could be the first developmental leap, it could be wind.
Google the fourth trimester and have a read of wonder weeks regarding developmental leaps.
Do you wind baby after a feed? I'd maybe suggest winding half way through and alternating between sitting baby on your knee with head and neck supported front and back and rocking him/her very gently back and forth/side to side/figure of 8 and picking baby up with head on your shoulder and patting and rubbing his/her back. Then finish the feed.
It is tough but it will get better - when my first got to about 11 weeks (you should adjust this to allow for how prem baby was) everything got much easier.

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