Newborn Not Sleeping At Night

[paloma1]

Hi my name is Aggie, I posted on general sleep issues, but might be better in this category
Our baby Paloma is 10 days old, pattern is emerging that she is a good day sleeper, generally sleeping every 2 hours and feeding every 2 hours, she does tend to fall asleep on boob sometimes. Beginning at about 8:30pm until about the same time in the am she is fussing, crying and wanting boob every 10 minutes. We swaddle her, put her down and she is up 5-10min later - this goes on all through the night, i do use boob to pacify if crying is going on longer than 30-45 mins and nothing else seems to work. So in summation decent behaviour during the day and complete chaos at night. What can we do? Haven't slept a single night in 10 days and we are starting to not have any energy to soothe her at night because all we get are a few naps during the day. Any help would be tremendous
 

[Shiv52]

Haven't slept a single night in 10 days and we are starting to not have any energy to soothe her at night because all we get are a few naps during the day. Any help would be tremendous

{{{{hugs}}}} It is so hard in the early days and is about survival.  I suggest you and DH take it in shifts and after you feed DH takes over and lets you get an hour or two.  Sleep during the day when the baby is taking such good naps.  Please do soothe her at night, she is so little and doesn't know what to make of things yet.  In the early days a couple of hours sleep is a decent stretch for all involved so don't be disheartened. 

HOw often are you feeding at night?  At 10 days if she is feeding every 2 hours in the day it wouldn't be unusual for her to want to feed every 2-3 hours at night too.  Totally totally normal.  She is establishing your milk supply and even my friend who FF was up every 3 hours with her newborn at this stage. 

[ZacsMumme]

HOw often are you feeding at night?  At 10 days if she is feeding every 2 hours in the day it wouldn't be unusual for her to want to feed every 2-3 hours at night too.  Totally totally normal.

I agree with Shiv. Those first few weeks are hard but it is totally normal esp for a BF baby to need 2-3hourly feeds even at night. I had a big boy and he still needed this for the first 4 weeks before he would do longer stretches (and that was only 3-4hours at night)

For some mums having their LO in the room in a bassinet with them helps with the NF. I know it was easier to BF at night in bed knowing I could just pop Z back next to the bed when he was finished rather than getting up and navigating around the house etc.

One thing you may find with your LO is that she could have a strong sucking reflex? Some LOs do like to suck and struggle to settle without it. This can cause issues with feeding and you could consider a paci if you feel she is wanting to suck for comfort frequently. That said she is so so young and I wouldn't worry at this age about her falling to sleep on the breast if it isn't all the time

[paloma1]

Thanks alot ladies! The reassurance is really really helpful and mostly i guess what i need right now (besides sleep LOL).

[Shiv52]

More hugs xx

You're doing great hun.  Rest every chance you get xx