Our baby is 16 days old and is a great sleeper, just during the day, and is up for 2-4 hours a night which makes it hard for myself and my wife. I have to got to work during the days, and my wife has to take care of the baby and our 18 month old as well.
2006-12-27 03:05:22 · 8 answers · asked by stuartlee657 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The major problem is that she is usually awake from 8PM-Midnight (our other daughter goes to bed at 8PM), then sleeps until 2, and then is awake from 2AM-6AM, at which is the time that I have to get up for work, and our older daughter usually wakes up anywhere from 7AM-9AM.
2006-12-27 03:17:48 · update #1
You need to force baby to stay awake during the day. Baby will be very irritated and cranky but give it a few days it works.
2006-12-27 03:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Tanya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been a mom for 27 years and a daycare provider for 20 years. I have pretty good success at helping babies get on a normal day and night schedule. What I do or recommend parents to do is this: During the day, do not let your baby sleep soundly for more than 2 hours at a stretch. Get the baby up from his crib, undress him a little, take off his socks, rub his feet, tickle his chin. He may not fully wake up, but he will stretch and stir and come out of that deep sleep. During the day, don't make everyone be quiet while the baby sleeps. Go about your daily chores, vacuum, run the dishwasher, let your 18 month old play as loudly as he wants during the day. Have the baby sleep in the family room or living room part of the day. At bedtime, keep things calm. Begin developing a bedtime routine. Your baby is not too young to be read to at bedtime. Sing or play some lullabye music. When the baby wakes at night, don't rush to him. Give it a minute or 2 and see if he will settle down on his own first. If he is awake yet has been fed, changed, and is dressed comfortably, then let him lie in his crib at night awake. Tend to him at night in a very perfunctory manner, little talking, only enough light to see by. Change and feed him, burp him well, and put him back in his crib with a hug and a kiss and an "I love you". Many babies go through this mix-up of days and nights. It will get better and these are just a few things you can do to help it along.
2006-12-27 03:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine's baby had this problem as well. The only thing that worked for her and her daughter was during the day she kept all the lights on in the house, TV on, etc. Even if it was brght outside, she kept the whole house lit up as much as possible, then at night everything went off. The lights being on and all the noise helped to keep the baby awake and then when everything shut off her daughter would fall right asleep. It is going to be really rough at first because baby will get really cranky and not understand, but i wish you the best of luck!!
2006-12-27 03:22:20 · answer #3 · answered by hntrmommy14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say but there really is no way to get them to switch. They will switch on there own. I went through this with my daughter (she is 11 weeks old) and it lasted for about 6 weeks then she started sleeping from midnight to about 5:30. It gets better. The only advice I had gotten was that you should try to keep them up as long as possible in the evening but that's kind of hard to do with a newborn, especially since all they do is sleep.
2006-12-27 07:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by ktbblb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's only up 2-4 hours a night and you have a problem with this? Holy crap. It must be absolutely horrible, you poor things.
*Insert sarcasm here*
Just keep him in the active part of the house during the day (save a few naps in the dark quiet of his room, he will need that during the day), and keep the lights on and bright, and the windows full of sun light. At night, keep things quiet, and dim.
it will take a little while for you to get him used to it, but he will realize that night time is more condusive to sleep than day time.
As it is, I think you both are wicked lucky that he's only up 2-4 hours a night. Sheesh. Thats awesome. If you went to bed earlier, you could still get a solid 6 hours of sleep or better depending on when he wakes up and when you went to bed. Thats not bad at all.
2006-12-27 03:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Newborns are suppose to sleep and eat and thats it. Newborns schedules are based on how they were in the womb. The mother was active during the day which rocked the baby to sleep then at night the mother isnt active and the babys up. Wait a while to start trying to put ur baby on a schedule. it will be alot easier on u then tryin to fight with ur baby to keep him up or put him to sleep. Believe me i have a 2month old and every week his sleep pattern changed. now he sleeps off and on during the day, mainly stays awake to see everything goin on around him. now wakes up around in 3/4 in the morning then at 6/7 then at 11/12. maybe twice a week he sleeps for 6 hrs at nite, which i love!
2006-12-27 03:18:55 · answer #6 · answered by foxzie006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really have to help them learn this one. During the day, wake them up from naps and encourage them to eat and play . I never let mine sleep more than three hours. At night, let them sleep as long as they want and when they do wake up, change them and feed them in the dark, without talking, and put them strait back to bed so they learn that night is not fun and for sleeping. It will take a while, but eventually, they will get the routine of it.
It is not cruel to wake a baby from sleeping during the day, especially if you want to establish good sleeping patterns!
2006-12-27 03:11:33 · answer #7 · answered by Mama Ro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"snoozing in the path of the night" for an infant is approximately 5 hours right this moment so whilst you're permitting that throughout the day she thinks her day is night. it may be no longer uncomplicated and your infant can cry yet attempt to maintain her unsleeping for the time of the day. of path permit her take naps yet do no longer permit her sleep greater suitable than 3 hours at a time. replace her, feed her then attempt to maintain her unsleeping for a quick time. i think of between changing, feeding and "playing" my daughter could be up for a pair of million-2 hours nonetheless to sleep. to help shop her unsleeping with an interest i all started putting my daughter in a play wellbeing center at a million.5 months even basically for 10 minutes an afternoon (till she cried) and tummy time for no less than 5 minutes or till she cried... which became oftentimes approximately 5 minutes. sturdy success!!!
2016-10-28 11:26:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋