my newborn 12 week old will not sleep through the night, is there any thing special you can do to help them sleep better? my 16 month old didnt sleep throught the night untill he started walking! i was hoping this little one would sleep a little bit better!
2006-08-14 13:00:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Not sleeping through the night at 12 weeks is very NORMAL! Keep in mind that your baby's job right now is to double his birthweight by 6 months. He needs to eat around the clock! Imagine how often you'd eat if you needed to double your weight that quick?!
Co-sleeping can make night waking much easier to bear, especially if you are breastfeeding. You can just roll over and nurse and be done with it!
Also, turn the alarm clock around backwards so that you aren't watching the clock every time baby wakes you up. Sounds funny, but it really does help if you aren't watching the clock and noting the time when baby wakes.
Keep things dim and quiet during night wakings so baby will feed and go right back to sleep and not think it is time to play.
And I hate to tell you this, but night waking is really considered normal for the ENTIRE first year. They do consider it "sleeping through the night" when they can go a 5 hour stretch though.
2006-08-14 13:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Come on now, ur lil 1 is only 12 weeks old, dont expect him/her to sleep all night yet, he/her is still hungry at night and needs his/her food, my son is almost 10 months and didnt sleep all night until he was 6 months old and he still wakes up every now and then like when he is growing or teething, just be patient:-)
2006-08-15 03:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babies sleep a lot, almost all day. The problem is that they don't get all of their sleep at once. Babies will sleep and then wake up and then go back to sleep. You can try to keep your baby awake for longer during the day, but other than that they are going to sleep when they want to.
2006-08-14 20:07:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well. Keep stimulation down to a minimal amount before bedtime. try not too have too much stimuli 4 hours before you'd like them to sleep and or after 6pm. stimuli is tv or alot of play time. have a mobile or a bed thing. i dont know what their called. we have one thats a fish tank and it plays water sounds. or light music. and a bottle..always puts them to sleep.
2006-08-15 23:05:36 · answer #4 · answered by SEXY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
momma2mingbu has it exactly right. The only thing I would add is to keep the room in *complete* darkness, not dim. But many babies are not developmentally ready to sleep through the night until the first birthday. Nothing you can do will make him ready to sleep before his body is ready--just like it would be unreasonable to expect him to walk into the kitchen tomorrow and prepare his own meals!!
2006-08-15 04:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
maybe you should put a little cereal in the bottle. That always helped me. good luck
2006-08-15 20:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by bicheeeened30 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try and give him a bit more breast/bottle milk that way he/she will have a full tummy
2006-08-15 20:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by npc_1973 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋