cellenly
05-31-2006, 09:58 AM
My 6 week old, who is breast fed and supplemented with formula due to a low milk supply, woke up only once at night (3 am) for the first 4 weeks. However in the last two weeks, she does one of two scenarios:
Wakes up once at night, naps once in the morning for 1.5 hours, then is awake all day long until she goes to bed. She is agitated (fussy & crying) from about 1 pm until 9 or 10 pm when she goes to bed. She’s visibly tired, but can’t go to sleep. I’m guessing part of the reason is that she’s cluster feeding (taking in little bits of food from 1 pm to 9pm). When I manage to get her to fall asleep, she sleeps only for 10 minutes then wakes up (guessing due to hunger?).
IF I concentrate on feeding her a lot of formula & hold her for the entire duration of her naps, then I can get her to sleep during the afternoon once and for about 40 minutes maybe towards the early evening. However, then she wakes up at midnight, feeds for 20 minutes on one breast and refuses to eat more, wakes up 2, and does the same thing, then at 4, does the same thing, then at 6, does the same thing, then crashes for her morning nap around 9 for a 1.5-2 hour nap.
Then it may be the cycle above (2nd paragraph) if she doesn’t sleep, or the cycle below (3rd paragraph) if I try to make her sleep. (it takes her about 1.5 hours to try to make her fall asleep).
I’m exhausted between the 9 hours of crying and holding/cuddling in attempt to soothe baby (though I get some sleep at night) or the sleepless nights with the day filled with attempts to make baby fall asleep.
Baby sleeps in total for about 10 hours, and I think she needs at least 15 hours or more for her age (from some charts I’ve seen). If sleep begets sleep, how can I get her to sleep?
Btw, baby hates being swaddled. She won’t stay in a blanket. We use the swaddleme, and she can only stay in it if we prep the swaddleme and ease her into it while she’s breastfeeding where she doesn’t notice too much. When she wakes up in the middle of the night and notices it on her, she screams and screams and grunts trying to get out of it. The happiest baby on the block method works sometimes to the extent of getting her to fall asleep, but she doesn’t stay asleep if in a cluster feeding marathon.
Any suggestions? I can’t even begin to figure out how to even approach this.
Wakes up once at night, naps once in the morning for 1.5 hours, then is awake all day long until she goes to bed. She is agitated (fussy & crying) from about 1 pm until 9 or 10 pm when she goes to bed. She’s visibly tired, but can’t go to sleep. I’m guessing part of the reason is that she’s cluster feeding (taking in little bits of food from 1 pm to 9pm). When I manage to get her to fall asleep, she sleeps only for 10 minutes then wakes up (guessing due to hunger?).
IF I concentrate on feeding her a lot of formula & hold her for the entire duration of her naps, then I can get her to sleep during the afternoon once and for about 40 minutes maybe towards the early evening. However, then she wakes up at midnight, feeds for 20 minutes on one breast and refuses to eat more, wakes up 2, and does the same thing, then at 4, does the same thing, then at 6, does the same thing, then crashes for her morning nap around 9 for a 1.5-2 hour nap.
Then it may be the cycle above (2nd paragraph) if she doesn’t sleep, or the cycle below (3rd paragraph) if I try to make her sleep. (it takes her about 1.5 hours to try to make her fall asleep).
I’m exhausted between the 9 hours of crying and holding/cuddling in attempt to soothe baby (though I get some sleep at night) or the sleepless nights with the day filled with attempts to make baby fall asleep.
Baby sleeps in total for about 10 hours, and I think she needs at least 15 hours or more for her age (from some charts I’ve seen). If sleep begets sleep, how can I get her to sleep?
Btw, baby hates being swaddled. She won’t stay in a blanket. We use the swaddleme, and she can only stay in it if we prep the swaddleme and ease her into it while she’s breastfeeding where she doesn’t notice too much. When she wakes up in the middle of the night and notices it on her, she screams and screams and grunts trying to get out of it. The happiest baby on the block method works sometimes to the extent of getting her to fall asleep, but she doesn’t stay asleep if in a cluster feeding marathon.
Any suggestions? I can’t even begin to figure out how to even approach this.