Moms of 8 week olds or BTDT mommies

How long was your child sleeping at night? And how many naps during the day. My dd is a TERRIBLE sleeper. She's been averaging 5 hours straight at night. She's so hard to get to go to sleep though. Last night she went to sleep at 9:00 pretty easily. DH and I thought, wow this is great! Then she was up at 12, 2 and stayed up until I don't even know how long because my DH took over (thank God for him, even though I feel guilty cause he has to go to work...but he only got up 1 1/2 earlier than his normal time). I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Do you think it's still too early to get a schedule going? Do they still call the shots at 2 months or is it possible?

On a happy note, she finally took a bottle last night. (I posted about her refusing it and just wanting the breast) It was the Dr. Brown's wide neck. But I think our hold up was over the nipple flow. I got her the level 2.

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Hi Meg
AJ is getting better each night now. I do have a hard time getting him to go to sleep too. If I dont rock him to sleep he wont go to sleep. For the last few nights I have been lucky, he goes to bed around 9:30-10 and hasnt been getting up until 6. He then has a bottle and goes back to sleep until 9:30. He is up almost all day now. I think taking him out into the fresh air the last few days has really helped. I am it stays warm so I cant keep taking him to the park.

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Deb,
I just sent you a FM about this.
thanks for your response! I'm so jealous that AJ is sleeping through the night!! I agree with taking them outside. Although it hasn't made my little one sleepy.

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Hi!.. DD is almost 8 weeks and she just started giving us 5-6 hour stretches at night... she wakes to feed (an hour!) and then back down for another 3-4 hours... We put her down at 10ish....

But I too have such a difficult time getting her to fall asleep.. we start the bedtime routine two hours before she goes down... We bath her and then nurse.. she will fall asleep, and I will transfer to the bassinet... but then she will cry... so I walk her around, she cries, then I nurse again (probably for comfort) until she sleeps, and then transfer to bassinet... it takes two-four times of this before she is down for the night... sometimes 2 hours!

Napping, she has gotten better, but now they are shorter in duration (3-4 naps at 40 minutes) as opposed to 4 two- three hour naps.. Hope this helps... hopefully we will all get to sleep through the night soon!

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Is she a BF baby? Breastmilk does not always hold them that long. MY DS started sleeping through the night at like 4 months. Once I started giving him solid foods along with the BM he started sleeping longer.

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