Two Month Old Sleeping?

Question

My Daughter, Brooke, is two months old. I'm 19 and this is my first child. My boyfriend and I were concerned that she's not getting enough sleep ( cause god know's we aren't) She Wakes up screaming every 3 hours, gets fed,changed,and doesn't go back down for about an hour. I don't know what to do anymore. We both work Full Time Jobs, I work the Day shift, he works nights and we're both exhausted.

I guess my question is how long should a child of Brooke's Age be sleeping?

THanks so much!

Answer 1

That is normal :) Im sorry as I know this is so difficult on you! I have 18 month old twins, and having them when I was 19 was crazy. I slept whenever they slept as I didnt have to work. They say a newborn that age sleeps about 17-18 hours a day. Good luck and get some sleep!

Answer 2

At two months...babies make their own schedules....WELCOME TO MOTHERHOOD!! :) The nights and days may seem like one big blur at the moment...but don't worry there is light at the end of the tunnel. It should only take a few weeks and before you know it, your little angel will be sleeping through the night. As for now, yes, this is perfectly normal. Newborns sleep a lot but in spurts. So my advice to you, is sleep as often as you can when the baby sleeps....let the house work go....it will get done eventually. Get a sitter for a few hours if you need a break. I'm a full time mom and I have two jobs myself...so I understand how you feel. It will get better though. Try taking turns getting up with the baby...if not every other time...then every other night. At least each of you can catch up on some ZZZ's a little by doing this.

Answer 3

At two months she probably does still need to be eating that often and if she's napping during the day she's most likely getting enough sleep, she would let you know if she was overtired. Don't worry too much, soon she will be eating more and more at each feeding and won't need to be fed so often so that she can sleep longer at night.

Also, if you start good sleep training now such as making it a little lighter and nosier in her room during the day so that she understands the difference between daytime naps and bed time sleeping it will make it a lot easier on you when she does start sleeping for longer periods of time.

Each baby is different, but as soon as mine started eating more at each feeding he slept through the night. I just had my baby last October and I'm a first time mom, the first few months are rough, but I promise things really seem to get so much better after 3 months.

Answer 4

Every baby is different, and requires different amounts of sleep. My doctor explained to me when I was in at 2 months looking like a zombie about variances in circadian patterns of sleeping and waking. Some babies need 20 hours of sleep, other need only 10 a day. Since birth, my son has taken only 30 minute naps every 2-3 hours. He's now six months and doing the same thing. At night he would sleep 2-3 hours in between feedings. He started to sleep through the night at almost 5 months. It did get really bad for about a week. He would wake up every 30 minutes, day and night. Finally I put him in bed with me to sleep out of desperation. I wouldn't recommend this long-term because of all the dangers, but for a night, it gave us both needed rest.
If she needed more sleep, she would be getting it, so don't worry. She's getting as much sleep as she individually needs.
Try to hang it there! I know how tough it can be, but just when you think you can't take another sleepless night, she'll start sleeping more! Good luck!

Answer 5

I can understand how that would be exhausting... I guess really it depends on how much your baby is weighing. If she's smaller, she might very well need to eat every three hours. I also have a two month old, who is my third child. She sleeps all night, but my other two probably didn't at this age, so who knows, it really varies from child to child...

I can, though, tell you what really helped me, and what helped my daughter start sleeping all night -- Dunstan Baby Language. Our babies are almost to the age where it doesn't work, and I've noticed my daughter doesn't do all the sounds as much now, but it should still work for the most part....

Dunstan Baby Language teaches you to recognize the sounds your baby is making, so you know what is really wrong with your baby when she's crying... Before I used this, I was feeding my daughter constantly, and when she woke up at night, I always assumed she was hungry... That wasn't the case!

First of all, the sounds are these....

NEH -- means hungry
EH -- means she needs to burp
HEH -- means she is uncomfortable (when my baby does this, it usually means she needs her diaper changed, but it could be any type of discomfort, maybe too hot, too cold, or something else)

There are two other sounds, and I haven't really mastered listening for them, but I DO know, that this one sound reminds me of the sound of a kitty.... This sound is like OWH, this means she's sleepy.

Then, there is EAIR... This means she's having gas.

IF you pay attention to these sounds, if your baby wakes up at night, maybe she's saying EH EH EH EH... Really, she's not hungry, you just need to pick her up and burp her... Then you may be able to lay her back down and she might go right back to sleep... That is how it worked for my baby.

Every since I've used this technique, she eats only 5 times per day. And sleeps all night. ALSO... She's less fussy at night, and is usually happy. I don't constantly feed her when she fusses, because I know what is actually wrong.

I hope this helps. It really worked for me. Like I said, though, if your baby is smaller, she might NEED fed more often. My daughter has gained quite a bit, so she doesn't need the night feedings like she used to.

Good Luck!

PS. One more thing I wanted to add... When your daughter wakes up at night, don't talk to her or turn on tons of lights. Feed her if she needs it. Change her diaper if she needs it, but don't play like you might during the day. This is another thing I did, and I think it helps. I have read to do that in more than one place, but I can't remember where. It seems to work, though.

Answer 6

Every 3 hours is pretty typical. If you need more sleep, bring her to bed with you. The quicker you respond to her, the less likely she will fully awake and the better the chance she will go back to sleep quickly. This is where nursing comes in really handy.

She should be sleeping about 16-18 hours total... but that could be in 3 hour spurts, or 20 minutes spurts... just depends on the baby.

Answer 7

I'm sorry to tell you hon but that's normal. I'm a mother of three beautiful kids and when they're that age, they wake up about every 2-3 hours. My only advice to you is to sleep when she sleeps. It's going to be rough but she should start to sleep more when they are around 5-6 months old. What you may want to do that the nurses may not have told you is to swaddle your baby when you put her down. What this is is basically taking a blanket and wrapping the baby tightly within this blanket so that she will still feel as though she's in the womb. Now I'm going to give the website that explains how to do this but it says to:

• Lay a blanket on a flat surface and fold down the top-right corner about 6 inches.

• Place your baby on his back with his head on the fold.

• Pull the corner near your baby's left hand across his body, and tuck the leading edge under his back on the right side under the arm.

• Pull the bottom corner up under your baby's chin.

• Bring the loose corner over your baby's right arm and tuck it under the back on his left side. If your baby prefers to have his arms free, you can swaddle him under the arms. This gives him access to his hands and fingers.

Hope this helps and good luck to you!

Answer 8

Both of my daughters weren't sleeping through the night until about 6months of age. At 2 months she is still too young to sleep through the night. However, I have heard that once a baby reaches 12-15 pounds, they can make it through longer periods of sleep. Try not to turn the lights on when she wakes up and keep things quiet and peaceful. That may help her go back to sleep faster.

Answer 9

For a two month old, feedings should be every 3-3.5 hours. That's from the start of one feeding to the start of the next. Then after the feeding a bit of waketime followed by a nap (except at night time when you cut out the waketime). Her naps will probably be about 1.5-2.5 hours at a time on average, starting to go longer at night and at about 3-4 months old she should be able to sleep for a 5-7 hour stretch at night.

Answer 10

My daughter Jorja is also two months old and she sleeps for around 3 hours wakes up, feeds, changes and doesn't go back to sleep sometimes for a few hours. I was told that as they get older they tend to stay awake for longer, as they are becoming more alert and active.

I'm thankful that when she has last feed for the night, she sleeps until morning. Try taking naps when she is taking hers.