Help please!!!

[Colette0988]

We have a 4 week old little girl who is getting worse and worse at sleeping. Today she has only napped for 3 times for a total of 3.5 hrs. She used to sleep during the night but the last 3 nights has been awake all night.
She is swaddled in a next to be crib but will now only sleep on me.
Am I doing something wrong? I don’t understand why her sleeping has changed so dramatically
Any advise would be great

She is 4 weeks old. My 20 month old daughter still wakes in the night and fights naps - baby sleep isn’t linear it goes up and down. She might sleep well some weeks and worse others - you’ll then hit growth spurts, the 4/8/18/24 month regressions, weaning, all sorts will change babies sleep. It’s a real rollercoaster but you’re not doing anything wrong x

You aren’t doing anything wrong, they just change very quickly and things like sleep will fluctuate in terms of how much they are waking up etc. It will get easier again but all babies are different. My son has never slept a full night in the sidecar crib! In the meantime you need to survive this stage - are you able to safely cosleep so that if you nod off she is safe? Or will someone else be able to take her so that you can have some sleep? For naps do you have a carrier?

I haven’t tried co sleeping yet as it’s always terrified me. And I’m not sure if it will help as she only wants to be led on my chest.
I use a carrier in the daytime that way I can get a few jobs done around the house too!
I know the current thought is that babies should be put to sleep in their backs but I’m not sure that’s for her. She’s so agitated and only sleeps for 1hr x

Thank you! X

I have the same issue in that my 2 week old will only sleep on my chest at night. Throughout the day he will sleep in his Moses basket downstairs but as soon as it gets to night he will not settle in his basket or in the crib. I feel a bit better after speaking to other mums who have said theirs did the same for the first few months. I’ve tried to swaddle but can’t seem to do it right and he always manages to get his hands out.