Please help, getting desperate

[skippingturtle]

Help! My baby is a week old and is taking forever to go to sleep. She will doze in my arms, or fall asleep whilst breast feeding but whenever I try to move her to her moses basket she wakes up.

We're spending more time trying to settle her than she is actually sleeping.
Last night she was waking about every hour.

I can't tell if she's hungry or just over tired, she's just fed for 20 minutes until she was impossible to rouse, and sure enough, after 5 mins in her moses basket she's crying.

Please help, I'm so tired.

Two good nights sleep and counting...

Hey, congratulations! Has the feeding fallen into line as well?

Kind of, her feeds vary in length from 15 to 40 mins but she seems now to only wake twice each night, which I'm really happy about. Night before last she only woke once!!

Have abandoned all hope for now of getting her into bed before 10.30, which has taken the pressure off and we can enjoy our evening.

I'm using a dummy quite a bit, particularly in the mornings from about 6 til half 7, when she doesn't seem to want to feed but is squeaking a lot and seems to want to suckle. Hopefully that's OK.

Dummies are very useful, provided the baby doesn't lose the ability to sleep without one in all the time (you'll be up endlessly replugging, if so) - avoid that (hopefully) by making sure you always remove the dummy once DD is asleep and she doesn't become accustomed to it being there.
I use one too and managed to wean DD of total dependency by doing the removal thing. Now she only occasionally takes a dummy to settle then spits it out after 5-10 mins.

Wow, if she's only waking once or twice, she's doing loads better than my DD (21 weeks) who wakes up a minimum of 4 times a night!!

Glad it's getting better for you.