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16 week old up from 2am

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Mexie · 20/02/2019 17:08

Hi, DD is 16 weeks and goes to sleep between 6.30 and 8pm depending on daytime naps. She wakes to eat at 11ish and then at 2am and that's it, she's up and ready to start her day after her 2am feed. She can be rocked to sleep but then only does 40 minute short daytime style naps. In the end it isn't worth spending all that time getting her to sleep for such a short period so I just get up at 3 or 4am.
She takes 3 or 4 naps during the day, which can be anything from 45 mins to 1.5 hours. I've tried keeping her up later and taking her to bed with us at 10 or 11pm but she's so grumpy and upset by then, and if i try to get her to catnap at any point after 6pm she goes into a long nighttime sleep which she's upset at being woken up from.
Does anyone have any advice at all? I'm exhausted. Thank you 💜

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Mexie · 21/02/2019 10:53

Up from 1am this morning... anyone have any advice? Does my baby just not need much sleep?

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SS1987 · 21/02/2019 19:26

Id say she definitely needs more sleep than that so wouldn’t think that was the problem. Does she have a dummy or is she swaddled? White noise worked for us with our little girl. Hope you get some sleep soon!

Mexie · 21/02/2019 22:47

Thanks @SS1987, yes she's swaddled (although she fights extremely hard to escape it), and I have white noise on all night. She won't take a dummy anymore! Thank you, I don't think I can carry on like this much longer but I guess i have to just keep going!

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