8 week old - not sleeping

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I have an 8 week old who at the moment is EBF. She cluster feeds every night from 5/6pm upto about 10/11pm or sometines later. She continually falls asleep while feeding but won’t settle in her crib. When she does finally go down its only for 2 hours and then wakens every hour until morning. Each feed is only 10-15 minutes and she then falls asleep but again won’t be put down - it can take a couple of hours to get her back to sleep but its only for a short time. I’m exhausted by the cluster feed and then only getting about 3 hours sleep ☹️ We’ve tried an evening bottle and a dummy but she refuses both. She used to sleep for 3-4 hours then 2 hour blocks so not sure whats changed. She also won’t nap through the day unless in car or pram. Anyone else been through this? Does it get better? Any advice greatly recieved!

Perfectly normal albeit brutal for you to endure!! There’s a lot going on developmentally at 8weeks which leads to a sleep regression. Promise it gets better!

Hello , I agree this is normal, whether cluster feeding or the nighttime. You will hear from mothers whose babies sleep much 'better' but that's normal too. My advice would be to see if you can learn to feed lying on your side, as if they get the hang of this you don't have the issue of having to 'put down'. Don;t even bother with a crib at this age (or necessarily at all)- it only adds to the lack of sleep for everyone.
Look into safe bedsharing (guidelines here www.isisonline.org.uk/) or buy a bedside cot.
If it still ends up that she needs to be held to get back to sleep, then you do the feed (lying down if possible so you don;t have to fully wake up) and then your partner can take turns doing the re-settling.

It always gets easier over time, although there will be steps forward and back- it's all normal. Both mine slept like you, eldest took 3 years but is an incredible sleeper now, youngest is nearly 2 and much more settled than the eldest was at same age.

My baby girl was 8 weeks yesterday EBF too and we had an intense cluster feeding period between 5-10pm last week. Day sleeping is still hard, i worry her brain will explode! I've managed to get her to sleep now by feeding her lying down and she's passed out on my boob. Might as well nap myself....