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monikah 
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Posted: 05 July 2009 at 9:23pm |
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So i just read somewhere that babies from 6 weeks old sleep 15 - 16 hours a day. my baby is wonderful during the night but had turned into a nightmare during the day. he cries for most of the day and if he isnt i quite often find him lying in his cot wide awake. how much should he be sleeping. i currently put him down when he yawns but he will still cries for ages and ages and not settle, he also wont stop crying if he is up, so it seems like a no win situation. he sleeps 8pm - 7am, waking briefly at 11pm for a quick feed. this means he sleeps for 11 hours and should techinically only need another 4 - 5 hours during the day which cant possibly be right. any ideas on what he should be sleeping during the day?
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JoJames
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Posted: 05 July 2009 at 9:31pm |
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My boy was very much like this at that age, really unsettled didn't sleep much, would only do 2 45 min sleeps during the day and wasn't as good at night as yours is, when he got to 3 months he just relaxed and seemed to come right.
I think that those hours are really just guides and that if you stress too much about what he should or shouldn't be doing then it just turns you into a big stress monkey.
It would depend on your philosophies but I subscribed to the theory that in the first months you should do what ever you can to get them to sleep, so I would rock him in pram, go for drives and put him in the moby to try to get him to sleep.
I'm not sure what I'm getting at but they change so quickly in those first months you will probably find he does something different next week.
Good luck
And I love his name!
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AuntieSarah
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Posted: 06 July 2009 at 11:28am |
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Stu didn't sleep much either, from 6 weeks until about 4 months old he would only have 30-45 minute naps 2 or 3 times a day. He was a nightmare to settle too, like JoJames said just do anything to get them to sleep - I regularly was rocking or feeding Stu to sleep just to get him to sleep! I was quite worried about it being a bad habit but he is now really good at going to sleep by himself, and just in the past couple of weeks has started resettling himself and having two 1.5-2 hour naps a day. I personally don't believe that leaving a little baby to cry is very good for them but I know this works for other people, it depends on what you want to do. Oh and if Mack is awake and not crying in his cot I would just leave him there, at least he is resting.
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Pinkygirl
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Posted: 06 July 2009 at 1:29pm |
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I had the same issue, great sleeper at night but gosh he hated going to sleep during hte day. He would fight the sleep. Travis is 7 weeks, and he still goes through days of not wanting to sleep during the day. If we have a day of not sleeping properly he will make up for it the next day. I have found a trip in the car is great way to put him to sleep.
Travis also just lies there in his bed, i just leave him until he lets me know it is time to get me out.
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Posted: 06 July 2009 at 3:01pm |
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Sounds similar as to what my DD did at that age too.
Could be several things, possibly a growth spurt too.
I think my DD eventually got into her own routine by 12 weeks.
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