9 week old - some tips needed.

[theresaplaceforus]

My baby is 9 weeks old. Her sleep is ok. Last night she slept from 11pm-6am. I’ve fed her and now she’s gone back to sleep.
Now my question/problem is that I try and get to to sleep from 8.30/9pm and I’m not successful until 11ish she cries and I put her down pick her up put her down etc etc.
How do you get baby to go down earlier for the longer stretch?
In the day it’s also miraculously if she sleeps somewhere other than me, it’s lovely but then I would like to try and get things done. If I put her in her Moses basket she will sleep for 10 minutes maybe before crying.

My baby was exactly the same at this age! I just went with it! She used to go to bed with us and only napped on me! At 12 weeks tho I was like right in going to try getting her to nap in her crib. I read someone on here had done something similar at this age I just popped her down (she cried) I waited and cuddled her after 3 minutes, then 5 then 7 and 10. She never got to 10 and rarely 7. By me re assuring her she soon got it and started sleeping really well in her crib. I think it's just Cos your baby is still so little but ride it out and then maybe at 12 weeks try some small changes! Hope everything works out soon!

I’m also going to say go with the flow. At 9 weeks old she is still so tiny and the fact she’s sleeping from 11pm-6am is lovely. Both my daughter and grand daughter didn’t go to sleep till 11pm and my friend also has a little baby that won’t sleep till 11pm. This will change naturally to earlier as she gets a little older.
As for the not sleeping during the day unless she’s on you, that also sounds normal. My daughter would cat nap for 20 minutes, if I was lucky, in her cot so I bought myself a baby carrier to put her in which allowed me to get enough done round the house until I felt that she was more ready to sleep independently. She would sleep for 2 hours straight in that on me. It was a life changing purchase

Honestly that's better than ok. I'd give my right arm for 7 hours of sleep.

This sounds just like my baby too. She was also so fussy all evening and just seemed generally upset and grumpy.
Sometimes it would take me a few hours of pacing the bedroom to get her down.
I read some advice on here and decided to make her have a nap about 6/7pm. This quickly turned into bedtime within a week - I now do bath time at 6 then a feed and bed after this. She’s sleeping through now with maybe a couple of cuddles in the first hour to settle her back to sleep.

My LO is 4.5 months old and when he was new born he would cluster feed on me until 10/11pm. It gradually got earlier. Then daylight savings changed the clocks so it became 8pm then one night he fussed so much at 7pm that I took him up to bed and he has been in bed at 7pm ever since. They will do it themselves I think 🤷‍♀️

@Pipperleen thank you so much, she’ll be 11 weeks tomorrow and I’m going to try the earlier bedtime tonight

@EL1984 I hope so, because although she does sleep fairly well I would really love an hour or two to myself in the evening or is that too much to ask with a 10 week old?!!

@theresaplaceforus mine was 12 weeks on Xmas day - very similar!
Good luck with the bedtime, it’s really worth it! I also do her last feed in the dark with a lullaby on - I now play the same tune every night. No idea whether it makes a difference but something is working.
Now to eagerly await the 4 month sleep regression...!