Help with 6 week old sleeping

[amyboo]

My DS is 6 weeks old and we're trying to get him to sleep in his cot in his own room at night (he's too big for the Moses basket and his cot won't fit in our room). He was fine on Saturday (we slept in the room as well) and on Sunday (we were in our own room). Then Monday evening he wouldn't settle at all in his cot, and last night he was difficult to settle in the cot, and eventually I gave up after he woke again at 5am and brought him into bed with me.

Basically what we're doing at the moment is bath around 8.45pm ish, followed by a feed and then one of us holds him till he's asleep and then we put him down in the cot. He wakes once in the night for a feed when I again hold him to sleep and then put him down, and then usually wakes early morning, where I feed him and then bring him into bed with me.

I can't for the life of me think why he won't settle in the cot all of a sudden. He can be quite clingy, but he's only 6 weeks old so I figure this is normal. He was sleeping OK in the moses basket most of the time with the occassional restless night where he wouldn't settle. Could it be that he's cold when I put him down in the cot? He's sleeping in a vest, babygro and then a warm sleeping bag...

Any help/advice woulod be gratefully received, as I managed about 3 hours sleep last night and can't carry on like this....

my littlelin still does that now and again shes 7 months now, and what i basically figured it was is just a little growth spurt where they dont settle as good, mine goes through this maybe every couple of weeks, sleeps through and then for a bout a week, wont settle and keeps waking making me exhausted! all i can say to you it will pass, even though it feels like forever, chin up chick it'll pass soon xx

My dd was like this with her moses basket, and I too was either feeding her or cuddling her to sleep.

Just this week I have been putting her down awake, and although she cries, I sit with her until she's asleep. She's now slept for at least 7 hours for four nights in a row. She also settles back to sleep herself after her one night feed. Maybe it's because your dd wakes up in his cot without realising he was in there iyswim? I didn't beleive this would make a difference until I tried it, but it did.

HTH

Could you try swaddling him to give him the feel of being in a small cosy space like the basket even though he's in the big cot?

There is a developmental spurt around 6 weeks, and fussiness/general unsettledness usually peaks at 6-8 weeks, so things should settle down.

FWIW, some babies can't get to sleep after being put down awake until much later - maybe 3 months or so, so don't worry if you try doing this and it doesn't work. Might be worth a go, though.

I would agree with angeldog, I put DS2 in sleeping bag after swaddling and now i'm swaddling again, DS2 is sleeping sooo much better and settles himself when he's put down awake. Also you could try playing some white noise (hairdryer or detuned radio?) which can help.

We had the same as MrsJamin - we were swaddling, switched to sleeping bag and now back to swaddling again.

could you put the moses basket in the big cot for a couple of nights, and then jsut do the cot on its own?