My 1 week old DD has no problem feeding or sleeping through the day, she feeds approx every 2/3 hours and once she’s had a bottle, she falls asleep pretty much straight away. Her eyes are usually closing before she’s even finished her bottle. If not she will cuddle for a while and then just fall asleep.
For some reason, at night she just will not settle after a feed. Once DP and I have gone to bed and put her in her Moses basket next to our bed, she just won’t have it. We always wait until she is already asleep before we put her in the basket at night (during the day we can put her in it when she’s still awake but drowsy and she’ll drift off no problem). But once she’s woken up for her first bottle of the night, she acts like she’s never been fed, she thrashes around and won’t settle no matter what we do.
We obviously make sure she’s winded, that she’s got a clean or fresh nappy. She doesn’t really cry but will do a bit of a wail. It seems to me like she’s almost frustrated, just from her body language and the thrashing her arms and kicking her legs, but I can’t figure out what could be causing it. She can be up for a few hours through the night with this and I’ve been told that newborns shouldn’t be awake for more than 60-90 minutes at a time, last night she was up from just before midnight until past 4am.
If anyone has any ideas or tips I’d be very grateful, I feel like I’m doing something wrong/missing something and feel awful for my poor little one, I just want to make sure she is eating and sleeping well for these first few weeks.