2 month old needs to be comforted all night

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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 think as long as that’s true, the nights are going to stay rough. You either try harder to get independent sleep or you tough it out - I agree very much with shifts during the night.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s literally 8 weeks old are you insane?

Mean.

OP it is normal. I had 2 amazing sleepers then the 3rd one broke me. Terrible napper, terrible nights. She didn't have reflux either. We just suffered through and it got better as she got older. Hang in there!

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

I completely agree with this. Your baby's insistence on sleeping/being held upright and waking up multiple times overnight is a tell. I went through this with my firstborn, and his pediatrician ignored me when I twice brought up that I thought he might have reflux, because he didn't projectile vomit (or maybe she thought that I, as a first time mom, had nothing to measure poor sleep against. My son was waking up 10+ times overnight, and would wake up within a few minutes each time he was placed on his back to sleep, and I knew there was something wrong...) She refused to prescribe pepcid. I almost went crazy for lack of sleep. My third baby showed similar signs of having reflux; we chose a new pediatrician, I brought up my concerns and all but demanded he be given a prescription for pepcid (famotidine), and it has made all the difference in the world.

That said, I do just want to repeat what other posters have said. Some babies naturally sleep better than others. Some babies just are not good sleepers. I tried SO hard with my firstborn to do everything "right" to get a good sleeper, but at the end of the day, sometimes it's just not something in your control.