Day Sleeps (or not) for new bubbas

white noise may help - putting the radio on static for instance.

Other than that - I always let her sleep on me or jumped into bed with her and snuck away once she was asleep. Putting her into her moby was the best and easiest if I needed to get things done, highly recommended. Don't worry about creating any bad habits. My DD at nearly 11mths is still sometimes boobed to sleep and or rocked. Sometimes she is happy to nod off by herself but not always.

we have a reclining bouncer....and we ALWAYS wrap him otherwise he doesnt sleep.. there was few days there where he just wouldnt sleep for hours though..but for him if he wakes after 5 mins it's mostly wind..and we let him be on the ground kicking around for a little while and it tires him out..

Shes almost 9 weeks, I really cant leave her down to cry to sleep have tried it and she works herself up. Have brought a electric rocking bouncer which works sometimes... Shes also not a fan of white noise the little monkey

I asked a similar question in the early days. Just do what you can to get her to sleep, whether it is wearing, co-sleeping, letting her sleep on you etc. Otherwise you could try the "its time to sleep"  which we tried for all of 2days  Up until 6mths you lie them on their side wrapped, patting their leg/bum with one hand other hand on the shoulder taking them off when they calm and are almost asleep. Its called controlled comforting not controlled crying. They do cry hence the reason we only did it for 2days as I didn't want her crying.

We try to make sure Mac is back in bed within the hour. Keeping him awake too long makes him overtired and he won't go back to sleep.

We let him cry, we time 10 mins, if he's still crying (or gets really worked up before the 10 mins is up) we pick him up without speaking or interacting with him. Let him relax and settle again in our arms, then we put him back down and try again, timing another 10 minutes.

Works for us. We very rarely need to do this more than once.

But every baby is different. It is important for them to be sleeping, as you say "they grow in their sleep" so having nough rest is important for their body and mind.

SpecialK wrote: ] I may have misunderstood your post, but are you doing the play part at night as well?

No no not at all, just during the day shes a mission. Nights are sweet. I have decided Im going to work on one sleep period at a time focusing on getting her down. Such as her morning one where shes sleeping in her bed now. Then slowly work on the next one and next one. FX it works

mandz - sounds like it's a classic cluster feeding time for you baby. Also known as the witching hour like you say.

I know a lot of babies, mine included, that are awake and feed constantly from 5pm to 9pm. Then come 9pm they just go to sleep.

Only other idea I have is that it could be Colic? Is his crying painful? You'll know if its Colic cause when they cry they thrash about violently and hit you and all sorts. Then suddenly it just goes away.
Also Colic tends to only rear it's ugly head in the evenings.

Mandz, I have the same thing with my wee girl as I think a lot of parents do, My midwife basically said not to even try getting her to sleep because you will end up spending all your time and energy and most likely not succeeding, let her do what she needs to in that time and go with it. For me its not a cluster feeding time as such because she is FF so for the last week I have just been going with it and for the most part except for one bad day she has probably cried less, and ended up falling asleep on me more, I know its not ideal and at the moment I don't have any way to wear her but as soon as I do I will be able to get a lot more done. Do you have the option of wearing your wee boy at this time of night at all?

Sorry don't know if that made sense at all, but I find even if Lexie gets drowsy at that time of night and I try to put her in her bed its not long before she wakes up, and I usually don't have too much trouble with her sleeping in her cot.

Inlove28, Hi!
I was having major issues with Lexie not sleeping very well during the day and this is starting to improve with a few things, I am now very aware that there are more than the obvious tired signs and the first point of any tired signs she is in her bed wrapped, white noise on and I will try stroking her hair or running my finger down the middle of her forehead to the tip of her nose until she starts getting droopy eyed then will leave her to it. I dound before I was missing most of the tired signs and by the time I was getting her to bed she would be so overtired that she would quite often drop off for 5 minutes and then wake back up, the other thing she would do is maybe 20 minutes or so and that was it, I have managed to stretch out her day sleeps till at least 45 minutes each and mostly longer, I can go in and give her her dummy if she stirs and she can go back to sleep quite often.

The other thing to do if you are finding that she isn't sleeping very well still, is go for a really long walk with her in the pram (of course this only works if she is a good sleeper in the pram) and then at least you know she has gotten one good day sleep out of it...

Sorry I have rambled on and you guys probably wont want to read it now lol, Hope it makes some sense