My DS Levi is 5 weeks old. He struggles with naps...unless I am sleeping with him or he is on me. I tried not to do this, but other websites told me it was perfectly ok at this stage. Well, I have to return to work April 28th and I need him to sleep on his own.
His naps last all of 30-45mins. I try to just lay him down awake because I have been warned not to rock him asleep. But he won't sleep that way. I also was warned by ppl not to keep the house quiet etc because he needs to get used to noise. But he won't fall asleep with things going on for very long. He truely fights sleep like a mad man. His eyes roll back and start to close and he snaps himself out of it.
So, today I have used swaddling during the day as well. He does great falling asleep at night swaddled. I nursed him today at 950am, I started to try to get him to sleep in my arms rocking around 10:10 (he was yawning)and he was startig to drift off all this time, but then wretching his eyes open. He isn't fussy during this, just not sleeping. My mom showed up around 11:00am with lunch so I placed him into his vibrating chair and gave him his paci. He fell asleep kinda quickly then, but only for 30 minutes. I tried to let him lay there with in that chair hoping he would drift off, because he wasn't fussing. He just had his eyes open. Well, he never did. So I picked him up, passed him off to my mom. She decided he didn't like the swaddle and took him out of it...
He did a lot of passing gas and did burp a bit. But we placed him back into his chair again swaddled around 12:10pm and he seemd glazed over for a tad, but woke crying to eat at 12:30. I fed him, changed him and by then it was 12:55 and he was yawning. I swaddled him, and took him into his room to nap instead. I put on the white noise he likes, and sat with him with my hand on his chest. I did give him the paci..and it did fall out after a bit and he didn't seem to care. He closed his eyes about 1:10 and I sat with him until 1:35. He did jerk awake several times, but closed them again. I left the room, but around 2:00 he woke and was crying a tad and my hand didn't make him settle. So I picked him up and shushed him a tad. He closed his eyes, and stopped fussing so I laid him down and he opened his eyes...
But he wasn't fussing so I just kept my hand on him got a few minutes. He had his eyes closed and seemed restless and worked his mouth like he wanted the paci, but I didn't give it to him. He settles after a few minutes and I left the room again. He is still in there (it's 2:20) making fussy noises...I do go sneak peaks and his eyes are closed as far as I can tell. But I am sitting here tense, praying he doesn't wake.
AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG??