2 month old needs to be comforted all night

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Anonymous wrote:You are missing a night nurse.

Yep! This is normal.

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My now 4 year old was like this and my 2 month old is like the babies you described (sleeps constantly, barely wakes for like 10 mins max 3x a night to feed). My 4 year old had severe lip/tongue ties (I was triple feeding until 6 mos when she got stronger). I wonder if yours is going through something similar ? My first hated tummy time/sleeping on the bassinet so I now often wonder if it was relief yo discomfort from the ties

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Normal but make sure you set a timer for five minutes before you intervene. It will feel like an eternity, but it’s important. The key fact is that ALL BABIES WAKE UP THAT OFTEN. It’s just a question of whether they can connect another sleep cycle. They may need to fuss or be mad to do it. That doesn’t mean you don’t have a high needs baby who will need more intervention than others. But you might also have a noisy angry sleep cycle connector who needs a few minutes to get it done.

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They’re not lying, some babies really are easier.

My biggest advice for you is to NOT rock her to sleep, but after soothing put her down while “drowsy”

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Get a snoo. It was life changing for my youngest who was exactly like this. I was worried she was too old (2 mos) but it took 2 nights and she was only waking up once

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Anonymous wrote:Get a snoo. It was life changing for my youngest who was exactly like this. I was worried she was too old (2 mos) but it took 2 nights and she was only waking up once

How was the transition out of it? We thought about getting one but ultimately didn't because we were so nervous about having to wean off of it.

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If baby is feeding enough during the day, try waiting a few minutes before going to him/her to see if baby settles on their own. I think we were *too* responsive at the beginning. A little fussing is okay.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re not a failure. My only advice would be to incorporate formula and split the night with DH. Like you take 9pm-2am and he takes 2am-7am or something like that, so you each actually get to sleep a few consecutive hours. Your milk supply will drop but my perspective as a formerly exhausted new parent was, “oh well.”

My kids are now 2 and 4 and they sleep a solid 11 hours, so know that it does get better.

Excellent advice. Please take this, OP, because there’s no way to know how long this will go on so you need a sustainable routine.

And if it’s any consolation, sleep in the first couple of months is not indicative of sleep later on, I’ve found. I had one of those miracle dream newborns who woke only once a night and was easy to put back awake into her bassinet. Well, at two months she started waking every 10 minutes and could never be put back into the bassinet again. Three years later and we are still in a sleep clinic and she still hasn’t slept through the night. Meanwhile my friends with bad newborn sleepers all sorted their issues by 6-10 months and have great, independent sleepers. Hang in there.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a snoo. It was life changing for my youngest who was exactly like this. I was worried she was too old (2 mos) but it took 2 nights and she was only waking up once

How was the transition out of it? We thought about getting one but ultimately didn't because we were so nervous about having to wean off of it.

DP and I don’t have one but as friends were weaning off the snoo, we were all getting nailed anyway by rolling, thumbs, standing up and falling down, etc etc etc. just a series of bad phases that passed quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:Normal. Cosleep.

This.

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Normal. Yours might be a bad sleeper at this age and it’s just luck of the draw. How are the naps? Sometimes better day naps help.

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Anonymous wrote:Normal. Yours might be a bad sleeper at this age and it’s just luck of the draw. How are the naps? Sometimes better day naps help.

Terrible. Will only contact nap being held upright.

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Anonymous wrote:Normal. Yours might be a bad sleeper at this age and it’s just luck of the draw. How are the naps? Sometimes better day naps help.

Terrible. Will only contact nap being held upright.

I’m the permanent crappy sleeper pp. OP get your baby to a GI doc and on a trial of reflux meds if they feel is appropriate. Sounds like it could be silent reflux. If no improvement in 2 weeks on meds, that’s not it.

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She’s literally 8 weeks old are you insane?

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Normal and it sucks. Split the night. My daughter was like this. Finally sleep trained her at 5 months.