So my first child was an awful sleeper - reflux and an undiagnosed tongue tie meant he just learnt to wake frequently for feeds and there was nothing I could do about it.
2nd child is now a week old. First she is NOISY. As soon as she lays flat she sounds all snotty and bunged up, and starts producing bubbles. Normal newborn sleep or the start of reflux? (I am aware I could be seeing reflux when it's not there due to previous experience). But the main thing is she will happily go 3 hours or a bit more in the daytime between feeds, and she'll spend a good part of that in her carrycot. But at night I'm lucky to get 90 minutes maximum. I've tried co-sleeping and side sleeper cot, swaddling and not, putting her on an incline, even letting her sleep on her side because she seems less agitated then, but none of it makes a blind bit of difference to how long she stays asleep. I don't understand why she'll sleep for 3 hours in the daytime, and in fact slept for 3 hour blocks the first 2-3 nights of her life and now it's gone. I had awful PND after my son and I'm getting so anxious about this and what I'm doing wrong that I'm worried about developing it again. Has anyone got any suggestions of things to try or ideas why this is happening? My husband goes back to work next week and I can't see how I can cope with a newborn and a toddler on the 3 hours sleep a night I'm getting !