Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anybody can help. DD 2 is 8 weeks old on Wednesday and I'm really struggling. Since she was 4 weeks old I have struggled with naps(short naps of 30-45 mins and unable to resettle by any means). She is seriously overtired and cries so much and I'm at the end of my tether. She won't sleep in the car or the pushchair, I can normally get a short nap out of her in the sling if I am walking outside, however once we return home she wakes up.She is well and gaining weight. No signs of reflux. She is bottle fed breast milk and formula. Swaddled for all naps and night time sleeps and uses a dummy.
Our easy is roughly like this
Eat: Wake up 5.30am bottle fed 150ml of formula
Sleep- tried to put her in the Moses basket, wide awake, smiling, left as happy but did not sleep.
Activity at 7am I got her up, figured I would feed her at 8am and try again
Eat- 100mls breast milk
Sleep 8.20 took 20 mins to settle slept for 40 mins woke up crying(tried to resettle as clearly still tired, with dummy and placing a hand on her chest) she hates shush pat and just screams. Unsuccessful.
Activity- 9.15am
Sleep 10am- 45mins unable to resettle
Eat 11am
Sleep 11.30am for 30 mins- unable to resettle. By this point DD 1 is bored and we have errands to do.
I was hoping she would settle in the car but only did a maximum of 10mins sleep.
This went on until 16.30 pm when she had a complete melt down. Hubby came home from work- fed her and managed to get her in bed asleep by 18.30 pm. She is clearly exhausted and I'm completely demoralised. I'm dreading tomorrow
I forgot to mention we will dream feed at between 22 and 22.30pm- she usually sleeps till 5.30am
Any insight would be great. Easy was a complete game changer with DD 1 and turned her from grumpy to gorgeous in less that a fortnight but struggling with the opposing needs of two.