2 Week Old - Sleep

[octoberfarm]

Hi! We have a new LO (2 weeks old, born 4 weeks premature), and as of now (and for the last week, really) he'll only sleep on me/DH, or in his tilted rocker thing, but we can't seem to settle him in his bassinet, where he sleeps at night.

I was working on the premise that this was relatively normal for the first few weeks, but everyone keeps asking how often I'm waking up with him (which assumes we're actually going to sleep in the first place) and if he's sleeping longer yet. Is this normal at this point, especially for a preemie?

DH and I are currently working in shifts so we're surviving, but we have a toddler and I'm worried that soon we're going to start struggling if he won't sleep for more than five minutes at a time at night. We've tried swaddling but he hates it, and womb/heartbeat sounds help for a few minutes but that's it. When we put him down and he wakes back up it's not full blown screaming, just crying, but he can't resettle and only cuddling seems to help.

I think this is all normal, I just can't remember from my first and so I'm struggling to figure where we should be at this point! Any thoughts would be much appreciated

Normal- try a good burping to ensure it’s not that, white noise all night, make it really dark so he knows it’s night, ours didn’t like swaddling so we just tucked a blanket in around her tightly. Slept with the blanket beforehand so it smelt like us. Leave a hand on baby while they sleep as long as they are awake. You can then pat back to sleep. Oh and weird but I put a mobile low over them (safely) to make it enclosed

Normal, ignore the people asking (or lie!)

Remember your baby actually should still be inside you til 3 months old and its a HUGE change from inside to outside, of course they don't like being put down. Take it in turns/ sleep in shifts- saved us until DS would be put down to sleep a bit

Definitely normal. One thing sorted this for us instantly. A Sleepyhead.