8 week old settling to sleep tips?

[Yellowmellowgem]

Hi I wonder if anyone can please help, my DS is coming up to 8 weeks and we are struggling with techniques to settle him to sleep. For the first 6-7 weeks he was a major cluster feeder (10 hours some points) so sleep naturally followed feeding. Now that he is more content with his feed I’m at a bit of a loss of other than rocking and swaying for 45-60 mins while badly singing to him, or bundling into the car which is not ideal each time he needs sleep I wonder if there is something I’m missing? He won’t take a dummy, doesn’t enjoy the sling - although loves being held in that exact position minus the actual sling and white noise doesn’t make a tot of difference. He ends up overtired many times during the day despite all efforts, making it all the harder to then get to sleep. I feel like a total useless mother that can’t give her precious something simple like sleeping!

For a good few months, we found that putting him down in his cot, placing a hand on his chest and wobbling him quite quickly but gently would usually work.

That’s one I haven’t tried thank you!

Please research baby sleep... Self settling doesn't naturally normally happen until much older.

8 weeks is far too young to expect that.

Look into Sarah Ockwell-Smith... Gentle sleep techniques and more information on normal baby sleep.

Bum Pat's and jiggling up and down on our chests (one at a time, not both at once!) worked instantly on ours.

*pats

Hi sorry didn’t mean for it to come across as self settling? I mean tips to help us parents to settle him. Thank you I will look up sleep techniques