How is everyone sleeping?

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Just curious how you all are doing with sleep!
LO is 11 days old and we found out will only sleep in a bassinet if we do not swaddle her arms. If she is fully swaddled she will wake up within 5 minutes of being put down. So weird! We may try an arms up swaddle but I'm worried it won't be warm enough, we are currently using a fleece Halo sleep sack and our room gets cold with the door closed. Right now we are struggling with her day and night confusion as she has two very wakeful periods in the middle of the night. Wouldn't be the end of the world except that we have a toddler whose sleep is suffering as well, and we can't always make up sleep during the day if she's home (weekends are rough). We have three sound machines going all night and are just doing our best.
How about your babies?

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What is this thing you call sleep ???

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Our daughter will be 4 weeks tomorrow. She’s not as good of a sleeper as our son was but she isn’t the worst either. Usually we put her down around 1030/11 pm with her last bottle of the night. She’ll usually wake around 2/230 am for a bottle. And then again around 530/6 am for a bottle then again around 930 am. What’s frustrating is the fact that those feedings at 2 and 530 she is so tired still that she’ll only eat an oz or two and so I feel like if she’d eat more she’s sleep a bit longer between. I’ve tried pushing her off by just giving her the pacifier and it works for a little bit every time she drops the pacifier she’s up again so trying that means I’m up the whole time because each time I doze off she wakes for the paci again. Her waking up doesn’t bother my husband at all (go figure. I swear men sleep through babies crying so easily) but it does make our son (he’s 2.5) stir in his sleep. We started putting a fan on in his room to help cause some background noise so he hopefully doesn’t hear her as much and it seems to have helped some. Thankfully because he goes to bed at 7 pm and our daughter right around that time has terrible witching hour until bed time so she cries a lot during those few hours.

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she’s 7 weeks tomorrow and starting to sleep through the night... she still has really bad night sometimes but it’s getting much better

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I’m not sure about homes but my son is 3wks and he’s up at 10-10:45, 12-12:45,2-2:45,4-4:45 I don’t feel very tired at night and he usually sleeps about 4 hrs after this

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5wks today. My daughter is the same- cannot swaddle her arms or she gets so mad! It wasn’t an issue until this week when the jerk reflex set in. I just ordered an arms up swaddle- hoping that helps. My first wasn’t like that and lived in a woombie lol. We just got the go ahead to not wake her at night from her dr- she’ll nurse at 7pm and will sleep until 12/1230am! Then back to getting up every 3hrs to nurse at night. We also have a toddler so the struggle is real. Lactation consultant said to wake her to nurse during the day every 2-3hrs, dont let her go over 3hrs & it can help with their day/night confusion. As soon as we followed this- totally helped. We have some rough nights occasionally, but not nearly as bad.

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What is sleep? 😂🤔 Just kidding! 17 day old lets me get 4.5 hours max, I will take it!

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My kids alternate. Last night my 2 week old was sleeping great but my 3yo was wide awake at 2am 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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My girl is up around every 3 hours to eat, but I just can’t seem to get her to eat more to maybe try and get her to sleep longer. We get on a schedule of going to bed around 10 every night by putting on lotion, diaper change, bottle and then swaddle and cuddles. Some nights she goes right back down after eating, some noghts she likes to stay up for a little bit, nothing too bad!

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So far so good for 3 weeks👍 goes down around 10/11 after a milk, change and I place her in a sleeping bag.
 Sleeps between 3-5 hour stretch, change and bottle and back to sleep (find it hard to burp her as she goes back to sleep) . Grunts a little so I pop her dummy in if needed in the early morning mainly.
No idea of room temp (Live in the UK so it's mild) but the sleeping bag is a 2.5 tog and I dress her in a baby grow with the hand sleves that fold over and long sleeved vest. 
I also have a 17 month old, he sleeps pretty good also with the occasional wake but he goes back off normally on his own 🤞
Hope it gets better for you soon.

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My girl is two weeks old and she’s waking about every 4 hours. Can’t complain 🖤

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