Help!!! I need helpful tips to get my baby in a night time routine :(

[Honey1994]

My 4 week old baby sleeps brilliantly all day, morning till about 8ish on the night,
As soon as it gets to about 9/10ish all she does is cry.
I can’t help but feel really frustrated and anything I try doesn’t work.

How do I get her into a night time routine and getting her to understand the difference??

Swaddling I've tryed and that just about works, the scent don't work, white noise don't always work.... HELLPPPPPP

It will change in time. At 4 weeks baby won’t k ow night and day and is likely to want to feed a lot at night. We always referred to evening as the witching hour in the early days as the screaming always happened then.

You can start an evening routine if you want but don’t expect it to ‘work’ or baby to comply for a while yet.

Makes no sure baby gets plenty if naps, plenty if sunlight in the day and that Rio is dark for night sleep should help develop the sense of day and night.

At 16 weeks my baby seems to have some idea of what to expect from her bed routine but I’m pretty sure that we could just feed to sleep when tired and get the same effect!

When DS was young, there was simply a window of time in the evening where he was really hard to settle and cried lots (ours was around 7/8-10pm). I may be wrong but think that at that age it’s just a thing to ride out.

Mine was like this at that age, it was a massive growth spurt and he just wanted to cluster feed in the evening. It felt like I literally breastfed him for hours at a time at night then caught up on sleep in the day - he went from 75th percentile to 98th within 6 weeks. It's too early really for a routine, I'd say between 12-14 weeks they will probably start to get more regular nap and awake times, and sleep a little longer at night hopefully.

It's very early for a routine. Sometimes this is just what they're like for a while. It's just a phase! As is everything with babies!!

I did find that getting my Baby up, changed and dressed every morning at the same time and then bathed/washed, pjs and sleeping bag on at the same time every night from being tiny helped us. Now she's nearly 5 months and wakes at 7am for the day, dressed and ready by 8, then has 3 naps during the day and is ready for bedtime routine at 7pm. Bath, book, feed to sleep and is usually asleep for 7.45. But it took us a month for that to settle and even then some nights she won't.

4 weeks is still really young to know the difference. I found the first 12 weeks with my new baby we're just about survival! I did what she wanted, when she wanted. Around about 14 weeks, she found her feet on her own, started to feed on a set schedule and I put her to bed one night and she slept right through and has done that ever since. I guess all I'm saying is just wait things out! Everything is all very new to your baby, and life is all about eating, sleeping and pooing, but things will soon fall into place!

Too young for a routine, best to start st 6/7 months.

The witching hour! It'll pass, don't stress yourself trying to get your baby into a routine at this stage, it won't stick. Do what you've gotta do to get through it and implement a routine (if you want) when baby is older

Way too early for a routine. Just go with the flow rather than trying the control the situation and reduce the stress.

Thankyou everyone for the advice. Your right lots of cuddles and just waiting it out, I'm still very new so still trying to work things out.
But I will get there

Aww as the others have said baby is very little still.

With my children I followed their lead but something I did do was to make sure the house was light and there was normal household noise going on during the day even while they napped and low lighting and noise at night time. It just helps to set the difference between day and night.