What the ****? Did i do something wrong?😯

Question

So here I am once again another sleepless night. My LO is almost 2 months and he still wakes up every 2 hours at night. But these paste two days have gotten worse. These past two days he would wakeup at 10:30pm and fall back to sleep at 1:30am. And from there wake up every two hours.             So today I wanted to try something different. My baby usually takes 3 naps during the day ( 2-3hours long). So today he woke up at 9am but I didn't let him have his afternoon nap. Then around 5pm I finally let him sleep (2 hours long) and woke up at 7pm and I tried sooooo hard to have him awake until me and my SO go to sleep at 11pm. But I guess he could help it and fell alseep at 8pm and woke up at 10pm, fell back to sleep at 11pm and now its 12am!!!( sooo sorry if this is confusing).     Anyways pleaseeeeee someone help me! What else should I do? I have tried not letting him sleep during the day, swaddling (which he hates & moves too much) and taking a bath at night. I'm desparte!!!                      Update: Its 3am and he still doesn't want to sleep😳😳😳

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I think you are trying to hard to set a routine with a baby who has no concept of what this means

Let your baby sleep and eat when they want it's what they are supposed to do to put on weight etc.

Sleep promotes sleep at this age

Are you breast feeding or bottle feeding?

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By keeping him awake longer and taking away naps, you're actually doing the opposite of what you want! Babies who don't get good sleep during the day don't sleep well at night. A 2-month old should be taking 4-5 naps per day. Only awake for ONE hour at a time. So he's overtired. This is why he's waking so much.

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If your LO is tired let him sleep just limit the time to 1.5-2 hrs, overtired baby will not sleep longer,also try to feed your LO as much as the baby wants and maybe try to change the bath time to morning and LOTS of patient Good luck momma!

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I read that an over tired baby will not sleep as well. Look up online how many hours a day your LO should be sleeping. The more they sleep the better apparently.

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He is overtired which is part of why he keeps waking up. He is treating nighttime sleep as naps. Also, he's a baby. It is normal for them to wake up every 2-3 hours even at night. Some babies do it until they're close to 2 years. Keeping him awake is only going to make it worse. I had to work really hard to get my MIL to stop trying to keep my son awake just because she wanted to see him awake (she just wanted to make sure he saw her) but she was only making MY life difficult because I am the one that had to deal with an overtired baby that didn't want to sleep. And even at 4 months, she is STILL thinking that he doesn't need to sleep (or eat, but that's a different story all together) as often as he needs to.

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My daughter did this then at 2 1/2 months she started sleeping longer but at night she wanted more oz

What the ****? Did i do something wrong?😯

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