hi everyone!! my daughter is almost 3 months (11 weeks) and I need advice for her sleep issues.
Let's start with night time; she goes to bed easily after a bottle but awake, with very loud white noise, a pitch dark room, swaddled. Then she wakes up 2 to 3 sleep cycles after her BT. sometimes we burp her, sometimes it's trapped gas, sometimes it's nothing, sometimes it's her brother that's too much noisy, but she always goes back to sleep. Then her MOTN feed she feeds A LOT and won't take a full feed in the morning to start the day. I tried to offer less but she keeps screaming for more so for now that's not an option.
Then are naps. Short 40 min naps. I can set a clock to it. I tried a pitch dark room. Super loud white noise. Swaddled. Unswaddled. Swing. Arms. Sling. Rocking. Crib. Pacifier. No pacifier. More awake time. Less awake time. Stroller. Car. No matter what she won't nap more. So now that I also have to take care of a toddler, I can't spend 20 min to put her to sleep or to resettle her to sleep with ssh-pat like I did with him when he was a baby. So i end up swaddling her, put down fully awake in the crib with her paci, close the curtains and leave. She falls asleep generally in less than 10-15 min. Sometimes I try to put her down without her paci and it worked a couple of times. When she wakes I either try to put pacifier back or to put her in the swing to finish her naps but it rarely works.
Here's a general routine although I follow her lead a lot.
E 7:00 (2 oz or straight refusal)
A
S 8:30 to 9:10
A
E 10:00 (5 oz)
A
S 11:45 to 12:30
A
E 13:00 (5 oz)
A
S 14:00 to 14:30
A
E 15:00 (5 oz)
A
S 16:00 to 16:40
A
E 17:45 (7 oz)
S 18:00
E 4:00 (7 to 8 oz)
WU at 7:00
WDYT mamas
