Whose babies are sleeping?!

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Attention all mommies of sleeping babies- first of all, I hate you 🤣 - second, give me your routines and sleep methods (bassinet, crib, swaddled, feed schedule, etc). 
Sincerely,
Mom of 8 week old who prefers to not sleep at night 
PS- we were in the children’s hospital all last week with RSV so if I don’t sleep soon I will have a mental breakdown 🙃

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We have a routine thats been working the past 10 days or so (my LO is now nearly 6 weeks) 830pm shower with dad (bub hates the bath) baby massage then feed.9.15pm Double swaddled in his bassinet. He sleeps from 930 to about 1.30-2.00am where he wakes for his feed. Seems to be working for us quite well

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I haven’t slept more than 4hrs either (she slept 4.5hrs last week and I thought omg I feel so refreshed since most nights I sleep an hour at a time 😩🤦🏽‍♀️). I don’t understand how everyone else’s babies are already on a routine. Mine doesn’t sleep and HATES the bassinet. WTF. I’m gonna die of exhaustion. No, seriously I actually might. (We are exactly two months old).

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I think it’s important to listen to when baby wants to go to bed vs when is more convent for you. My baby is done by 6pm. So by 615pm, I do bath, lotion, pjs and dream up swaddle. I take her into our bedroom and nurse her in the dark. We have a hatch sound machine and that’s playing ocean waves (I can’t sleep to white noise). I burp and hold her upright for 20 mins or she’ll just spit up everywhere. She’ll be asleep and I’ll put her down in her dock a tot in the bassinet. At times she’ll wake up, but will put herself back to sleep. If not, I’ll burp her again (typically they issue) and then put her back down asleep. If she’s fully awake, she won’t go to bed on her own. She will if drowsy 75% of the time. She’ll typically be asleep by 730/8, and then will sleep until 1-2am. Nurse, then bs n to bed until 5/6am. We have a toddler who refuses to sleep past 6am, so I have to get up by then.

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I just completed the course Taking Cara Babies. Here’s some tips that I learned that I think are helping so far. I hope they help you! 
1. Swaddle until they are consistently rolling over even if you don’t think they like it.
2. Use white noise. Something similar to shhhhh. 
3. Make a big difference between night and day. Open the curtains during the day. Make noise. At night, dim lights and just white noise. 
4. When you’re trying to settle them down, face them away from you when you rock them. There are no faces in the womb.
5. Make sure they are actually awake before you intervene. Babies make a lot of noise. 
6. Before you get them out, turn up the white noise. If that doesn’t work, put your hand on their chest, Then offer the binky. If that doesn’t work, start rocking them with that hand. From there, get them out and rock them facing away from you. 
7. Make sure the baby is eating at least every 4 hours during the day to get what they need so that they aren’t hungry in the middle of the night.

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My son will be 2 months on Thurs. he gets a bath around 845, lotion massage, feed then swaddled and out by 930. He gets up again between 2-3 then again about 2.5-3hrs after that. He sleeps til about 8 or 9am before he’s up “for the day”.

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Baby is 8 weeks.  We do last feed around 10 or 1030 and lay him down in his crib.  He’s happy to sleep in the crib at night, but gives us a hard time during the day.  He sleeps until anywhere from 430 to 630, then up for a feed and back down until 830 or 9.  He naps several times during the day, but we don’t have much of a schedule for those.

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the longest my son has slept is 4.5 hours, he’s 8 weeks old. we’ve done the same thing since the day we came home from the hospital. he gets a bath around 7:30 , put lotion on him , put his pajamas on, give him a bottle, and rock him to sleep.

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Our routine is bath, lotion, pjs, starting around 7:30pm. Then by about 8 we are going into my room for bottle, swaddle, rocking to sleep. We use a white noise machine. We were using a static sound but now we are using ocean waves and he seems to really like that better. Once he’s asleep or really drowsy he gets the pacifier and put down in the dock a tot on our bed. 
Over the weekend we slept at my parents’ house and he slept for the first time in his own space (pack and play) he did so great (6 hours and 45 min for his first sleep) that we decided to try our luck at home. 
Tonight is the first time we put him in his crib. He slept for 6 hours straight! He even woke up and cried after we initially put him down and after about 3 minutes he put himself back to sleep. Our sound machine also projects stars onto the ceiling and he really seems to love that too!

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I bought a cosleeper and it seems to have really helped. I try to keep him up a couple hours before bed. Tummy time, bath, lotion him up, put a cozy sleep sack on him, feed him, burp him, gas drops, and put him down next to me. 
We went to bed at 12, woke up at 330 for a feed, another feed at 7 & asleep again. I make sure I have everything I need on the nightstand ready to go when he wakes up so we can get back to sleep quicker.

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Usually cluster feeds starting at 7 and ends at 9pm.  
I use the dock-a-tot, hatch rest+ baby sound machine (set for every night 8:30pm-11pm and again at 3am-4am bc that was her witching hour. it’s since changed but I keep it on so that it’d put her back to sleep if she does wake up) and a secured (hands free) swaddle blanket. 
If I hear her in the middle of the night, I give her the pacifier and she’ll be back to sleep almost instantly. If the pacifier doesn’t work I’ll nurse her back to sleep. But than I’ll have to wait 30+ mins to lay her back down in the crib. Every time she wakes in the middle of the night I turn on the sound machine to get us both back to sleep, works great. Whenever I had bad nights like your having, I’d put her in the bassinet swing from Graco and that’s put her right to sleep. 
Almost everything on this comment isn’t recommended so please do what you feel is safe. I’m in close proximity to my baby at all times so I feel comfortable doing these things. Also, everything was second hand so no I didn’t spend a crazy amount of money so that my baby would sleep through the night. (Facebook marketplace, OfferUp, letgo, etc)

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