3week old

[jade2024]

My three week old baby boy fighting his sleep always around half 6-7 at night! I have tried what I can think of! White noise, lullabies, cuddles, he even has had two bottles in two hours.
I feel like I'm losing a battle! Any suggestions would be great please

Is he screaming, or just not sleeping? If he's screaming it's possibly colic. I t typically starts around now. Is he your only little one?

Is he crying? It could be colic.

Honestly OP, it’s a horrible phase but it does pass. My baby is 9 weeks old now and she was also exactly like this at 3 weeks, it improved from around the 5 week mark but not because we did anything differently, it just was a phase that she passed through! It is rough when you are in the middle of it though x

Wish someone told me this, it's just what they do. Lots of cuddles and rest when you can. They go through waves of not sleeping. fighting. Look into wake windows. Babies are meant to wake too. At this age they call it the witching hour x

Have you heard of the witching hour? In most cases it's multiple hours from somewhere between 5 and 11pm and often digestive related.

I think my babies were all napping, crying then shouting in an endless cycle until about 11pm for six-nine months. It soon passes but learning how to de gas top and bottom wind can help. Lots of sling time. Evening walks etc.

He has a dummy which I didn't really want to give him, but as soon as he spits it out he screams and cries. He's fine as soon as he has skin to skin contact too. He's my first, I just feel like I'm going a rubbish job sometimes

The Witching Hour!! No idea why it’s a thing but it is. Fortunately they grow out of it.

Oh ok. He's a normal baby. Your expectations are way off here. We are carry mammals not birds. Babies are not supposed to want to go down in a nest.

If he's happy skin-to-skin, just go skin to skin! Chill out in bed, listen to audiobooks, watch TV, sing all your favourite songs to him - they don't need to be lullabies! That's why I was asking if you have older children, as it's so much easier to go with what baby wants if you don't have to worry about the needs of the others!

Thank you I will try it see how I get on! Fingers crossed it gets better

The first four months are hell on earth … Sounds like colic and or gassy.

Try baby massage before bed with lots of bicycle legs to get baby farting and infacol.

Mostly breathe and know you will sleep again but right now your baby is still confused about what the hell is going on and needs you so lots of cuddles and sleepless nights and get partner to take over if you feel your sanity breaking and split weekends so you both get sleep

The first few weeks are so hard but I promise it does get easier. You're not doing a rubbish job at all, you're doing amazing. You and baby are getting to know each other still. Enjoy the skin to skin if that's what settles him, he's new to this big wide world and just wants to be close to his mummy. My boy is 4 months now and I called him my little koala at that age because he just wanted to be cuddled 24/7 🤣

I feel for you OP, the first 6 weeks or so are definitely the hardest. But it does get easier!

Have you tried swaddling? Only thing that worked for mine at that age was

Do you have a Ewan the sheep type toy with the heartbeat style white noise? We suffered badly with witching hour for a good 6 weeks but Ewan definitely helped and I took him everywhere.