Over tired baby

[Flower08]

Hi ladies

I’m a FTM to a beautiful 6 weeks old baby girl and looking for advise please.

My DD for the last few days has been extremely difficult to settle at night I’ve now realised she is over tired/ over stimulated. Last night proved the most difficult but her grandma had been to see her in the afternoon and held her and played with her for a good 2 hours, until she stared screaming and then tried settling her? Herself which I had to take my baby off her so I could settle her which annoyed me. I will be having a word as I know
People are excited but I also don’t like her passed around like a party parcel. She wouldn’t settle for hours would only fall asleep in my arms after I’d bounce with her on my gym ball. As soon as I put her on her Moses she’d scream again!! This carried on until 22:30 the poor mite which she did then fall asleep after her bottle and woke up 4 hours later for another etc etc... today she has been absolutely exhausted and apart from her feed at 7am, 11am she’s slept and is still asleep now in her Moses. I feel bad
Poor bugger. Is it best I let her sleep like she is in the day ? Do I start getting into a routine where I bathe her at a certain time at night and take her into our bedroom where the lights are dimmed and it’s quiet so she knows it’s bed time Or do I still take her back down stairs where they’ll be noise and lights ( we have a baby monitor) I just want to avoid another over tired baby and over stimulated.

I hope this all makes sense :)

Don’t let her stay wake for more than 90 minutes max at this age.

The more sleep she gets durring the day the more she will sleep at night. But this may still be a crap amount of sleep.

Remember all sleeps need to be in a room with an adult until 6 months to reduce SIDS.

It is far too early to worry about a routine and until 4 months light and sounds won’t wake her up when she has already fallen asleep.

I would just spend evenings holding her and watching all the crap on tv.

Try and get her into sunlight durring the day. This can just be putting the Moses basket next to the window while she sleeps

Thank you anotherangel2

We have an 8 week old and follow a very loose routine - mainly following the babies cues. I can’t say whether it is just luck or not but I think it is really helpful and we manage to get him in bed by 7pm most nights 8pm at the absolute latest (even when he is overtired and colicky). He sleeps till 11 and then 3.30. We get good stretches of sleep and the baby is really calm and settled most of the time. He has a bath at 6.15 and is then put in our bedroom with the blinds closed.I know some people would despair at this as sids advice says an adult should always be there. However, our room is off the living room and I’m in bed by 9pm so he’s only alone for a couple of hours.

During the day we are much looser. Ds is not a good napper unless in the pram / car. Bit of a nightmare but he is a ver inquisitive baby and doesn’t like to miss out. All I do is feed at roughly the same time and ensure he gets 3/4 hours sleep. He basically decides when and where this happens. I’d like to be more routine but it’s too hard to enforce unless you want to be tied to the house.

I agree that you need to limit awake/sleep times if you can. Having said that ours seemed to go through a growth spurt at 6 weeks and slept for days! He wouldn’t wake so we just left him. It actually didn’t seem to effect his night sleep.