Tips for getting a one month old to sleep?

[Anonymous]

Bouncing on a yoga ball worked really well for getting my two kids to sleep.

[Anonymous]

Can you wear the baby and go about your day/night?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a SAHM. The first few months, my baby was just feeding and sleeping.

I was on her schedule.

My mom and DH were there to look after her, they would bring her to me for nursing and that was the extent of my involvement. At night time, I would pump one feed and hand it to my DH after nursing the baby. He took care of the 4 am feeding. So, I used to get at least 6-8 hours of sleep at night. I used to continue dozing in the daytime.

Thankfully, we had hired helpers to take care of house cleaning, laundry and cooking - so that was a big help.

So unhelpful with your army of hired help.

That post triggered me. :/

[Anonymous]

One month is still very much an infant. It lightens up around three months.

And then you have a grace period until the little bastards start crawling.

[Anonymous]

Just hold/rock/nurse to sleep. You can’t build bad habits at this age bc the baby can’t remember anything. Just get to 8-12 weeks moderately sane, and then make choices.

[Anonymous]

4 weeks in and generally you are still feeding and all that. Make sure your partner is doing the burping and spit up and the rest of it.

It makes it easier to transition to solid nights of sleep when it's time. The baby does not want to see the dude at 3 AM.

[Anonymous]

I think you just need time. Mine is almost 3 months and finally doing most naps on bassinet but at one month was doing all contact naps. My first had colic . The newborn phase is hard, there's a reason maternity leave exists

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just hold/rock/nurse to sleep. You can’t build bad habits at this age bc the baby can’t remember anything. Just get to 8-12 weeks moderately sane, and then make choices.

OP says she tries that and it doesn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s taking like an hour to get my six week old to fall asleep. For all naps and bedtime. I’m watching wake windows, about 60-70 mins, shorter or longer makes it worse.

Rocking chair and pacifier works… sometimes. Letting him cry in our arms for a few mins works… occasionally. Holding him upright, walking around with him in our arms, gripe water, even putting him down drowsy but still awake and letting him fuss/cry for 5 mins (not really comfortable with any more than that, he’s so young) - all these work every once in a while. And he’ll usually nap in the stroller so I do that once a day.

But nothing seems to work consistently, I’m spending like five hours a day trying to get this child to sleep and I’m TIRED. And bored. Any suggestions?

FWIW - I’m a third time mom! But my first had colic (nothing worked!) and the second could be reliably rocked to sleep in 15 mins, 90% of the time. I’ve never had a “medium” baby before, only easy and impossible.

Do you nurse or use formula?
If the former, nurse your baby to sleep. It's not a bad habit at this age.
If the stroller walks I guess youll get some steps in. What about a swing or bouncer or dockatot for supervised sleep?

[Anonymous]

I used Baby Einstein DVDs at 5 pm every night before bathtime and a bottle and then a book.

[Anonymous]

Hang in there! My third is 4.5 months. Six-eight weeks was like peak crying for her. I was consistent with following wake windows, put a good bedtime routine in place. At that point, when I was sure she was fed, dry, burped etc. - I would hold her for a few minutes to try to settle her then put her down. Sometimes she cried and that was okay, because holding her didn’t make it any better. Sometimes they are really just overtired and need to settle to sleep. She started going to sleep independently consistently by 8/9 weeks. Right back to sleep after an overnight feed, then dropped the overnight feeds consistently by 13 weeks or so. Keep doing wake windows and bedtime routines.

[Anonymous]

If you’re a third time mom with questions, you probably can’t be helped. Best advice you might take on board is to make sure you get the food pattern right. Every 2 hours during day no exceptions (except to let it slip to 2.5 hours as the exception, 3 hours as an extreme exception). They can’t sleep as much as possible at night if they aren’t eating as much as possible during the day. You may be rocking but are you also acclimating them to sleeping in other position slowly over time?

[Anonymous]

With my second, I didn’t try putting him to sleep for longer than 15ish minutes. If he wasn’t going down, I just reset, let him have a little more wake time and tried again in 20-30mins. I wasted too much time with my first trying to force him to sleep according to wake windows. They will eventually sleep!

[Anonymous]

PP here and with my second I also said F it about Eat, Wake, Sleep and topped him off before every nap. So usually he was nursing to sleep at that age and nursing to drowsy still for quite a while longer. He still sleep trained just fine around 6 months or so.

[Anonymous]

SAHM here.


Swaddle, swaddle, swaddle, swaddle again.