Newborn night routine??

[kateqpr]

So far we just keep Poppy down with us until we go up to bed. She normally just sleeps in her pram until then, then goes into moses basket inbetween feeds.

last few nights though she's waking a lot, doing lots of light sleep and murmering, like she's on the verge of crying. I do probably 2 feeds a night, but she ends up falling asleep on my breast. After lots of poking and trying to wake her, i'll put her back in her basket but she then tends to wake up 5 mins later crying. I've ended up putting her into bed with us at that point as she tends to sleep for longer that way and i get SOME sleep to keep me going. But even then she murmers really loudly! And sometimes it sounds like she's swallowing hard or choking, so i end up waking up anyway and staring at her (and she's normally totally fine)

my HV suggested i start putting her up in her basket now in the evenings ,to seperate night and day better. Going to do that this week, but just wondered if anyone else has a murmering baby who seems to sleep better with you? And am i taking her out of her basket too early once she cries? I just feel at 3 weeks leaving her bawling seems so awful.

Any advice? Thanks

 

[Vickie]

With Hannah we usually kept her out in the living room with us either holding her or putting her in her basket until her last feed of the night. We had to hold her/rock her to sleep....took about 30 minutes and put her in her crib and went to bed as well. She usually woke twice a night to eat, around 1-2 and again around 6. If she fell asleep whilst eating we would go change her diaper to wake her up a bit Sounds mean but it usually worked

 

[mernie]

my little girl makes those same noises all night long it seems so I'm constantly checking on her. I finally had to tell myself if she needs me she'll cry. She's only slept with us in our bed twice but I totally agree that it seems that she sleeps better. She's sounds just like your Poppy she'll eat and fall asleep and when I put her back down she wakes up within 5 minutes crying again. I think its normal, maybe they're just hitting a growth spurt? I wouldn't leave them crying either at this age it just seems so cruel. Hope it gets a little better for both of us.

 

[polo_princess]

We were similar to Vickie. At 3 or 4 weeks Brookes last feed before bedtime would be 10/11pm so i would keep her on the sofa cuddled up with me then after that feed i would put her in her basket. I would give her half a feed in the night, change her and then let her finish the feed.

Do you put her in her basket to settle her off to sleep of do you put her in it once she's asleep?

 

[hypnorm]

for the fisrt month i took Robyn up to bed at the same time as us.
now she is approaching 6 weeks i have started taking her up after a feed at about 8pm and trying to get her to settle in her moses basket. she used to sleep in the moses basket down stairs but i have now changed it so she sleeps in the boucy chair in the day and the moses is for night time use.
Robyn is in her own room now as she was so noisy i was getting no sleep. she whistles and whines if she still has wind!

 

[danni2609]

we have her on the sofa until last feed at 10ish then she goes in her moses basket and up to bed where she can take up to an hr to settle herself as she lightly dozes and wakes its hard work!!

 

[princess_bump]

we used to have her in the living room with us, in her basket, until we went to bed, then she would have her feed, and put her back in. we did this till around 4 weeks then we started putting her in our room in her basket at night, popped the monitor on and checked her every 15mins!

we found this worked as she slept through from 6 weeks. i must admit we never let maddi cry it out, if she whimpered with soothed her and put her dummy back in etc. it does get easier honey, i would say the thing that helped us most was just following maddi's routine x

 

[xXDonnaXx]

I did the same for the first month and abit. She was downstairs with me until 10pm. She would have her last bottle at around 9:30pm and we'd both go up at 10pm. She used to wake at 2am, 6am then 9am. Sometimes I'd leave her in my bed from 6am feed, but not often. She does sometimes winge when I put her back in her cot but she goes back to sleep eventually. I changed her bedtimes to 8pm when she was 7 weeks old.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

 

[caggimedicine]

Up until a week ago, Harry would sleep downstairs in his moses basket with us until we were ready to go to bed and then we'd carry him up in the basket. Last week I started trying to introduce some kind of routine (not just for Harry, but for us too). We now take Harry upstairs at about 8pm. That's it then - he doesn't leave his nursery until the morning. All feeds are done in there in the dark. I also only go in when he's actually properly crying - and only when he's been crying for about 30 seconds. Sometimes he'll cry for 10 seconds and then go back to sleep so there's no point in me going in then as it would just disturb him. It seems to have worked for us... even though some times it's meant me sitting in the dark for half hour of an evening feeding and cuddling Harry to sleep! Means we don't have to creep around downstairs of an evening.