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12-25-2012 at 11:43 AM
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XP: Getting LO back to sleep after late night feedings?

So we've been experimenting with bedtime routine, waking frequently (at least every 2 hours) during the day, swaddling, sleep position, etc. and seem to have found a good combination last night.  

For about the past week, she's been having trouble sleeping more than 2 hours (if that) at a time at night, but last night she slept 2 hours 45 minutes before waking to feed.  She breastfed without issues and seemed like she was getting sleepy, and then all of a sudden she was wide awake.  She starting smacking/licking her lips and rooting around like crazy, but then wouldn't stay latched on for more than 10 seconds at a time and kept bobbing around on my chest.  Eventually I woke DH and asked him to help, since he's sometimes able to get her to sleep during the day, but he couldn't make her happy either.  We also tried putting her in the swing and giving her a paci -- neither helped.  We were up for THREE hours, but after she finally went to sleep she was out for over 4.5 hours (the longest stretch she's slept since birth)!

We're keeping the lights low and sounds to a minimum at night, but I'm tempted to turn all the lights on, TV on, etc since she sleeps so well during the day with the stimulation.

Does anyone else have trouble getting LO to go back to sleep after a late night feed?  Anything that has worked to get LO back down?  I'm glad she (and DH and I) got some longer sleep stretches last night, but I really don't want to be up and frustrated for three hours in the middle of the night, every single night :( 

Thanks for any suggestions! 
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12-25-2012 at 11:54 AM
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you are probably in the 3 week growth spurt and lo being more awake is part of it.
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12-25-2012 at 12:09 PM
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My 1 week old is doing the same thing. ill be anxious for responses!
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12-25-2012 at 3:29 PM
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I found that DS naturally fell into a routine where he ate, then was up for a while, and then fell asleep.  So I don't think that being awake is anything unusual, but the 3 hours/ length of time is.  I don't have any advice except to just hang in there.  Its really too early for a set sleep pattern to emerge, but it will soon. 
 
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12-27-2012 at 12:41 AM
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BeachMama7693:
you are probably in the 3 week growth spurt and lo being more awake is part of it.

This.  And not just this, but also - 3 week growth spurt is like a non-stop foodfest.  It's like you just can't feed them enough.  By the time they're finished eating, they've already burned through what you just fed them.

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12-27-2012 at 3:08 PM
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blu-eyedwife:

BeachMama7693:
you are probably in the 3 week growth spurt and lo being more awake is part of it.

This.  And not just this, but also - 3 week growth spurt is like a non-stop foodfest.  It's like you just can't feed them enough.  By the time they're finished eating, they've already burned through what you just fed them.

This 100%!  I also agree that it might be too early to have a set routine.  I think the first 2 months DD ate every 3 hours day and night.  And she also had her days and nights confused for a while too.  I think it was around 6-8 weeks that DD started sleeping longer stretches at night.  Try a white noise machine.  I found that it was too quite at night for DD to sleep, so the white noise machine drownded out the quite.
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blu-eyedwife:

BeachMama7693:
you are probably in the 3 week growth spurt and lo being more awake is part of it.

This.  And not just this, but also - 3 week growth spurt is like a non-stop foodfest.  It's like you just can't feed them enough.  By the time they're finished eating, they've already burned through what you just fed them.

This 100%!  I also agree that it might be too early to have a set routine.  I think the first 2 months DD ate every 3 hours day and night.  And she also had her days and nights confused for a while too.  I think it was around 6-8 weeks that DD started sleeping longer stretches at night.  Try a white noise machine.  I found that it was too quite at night for DD to sleep, so the white noise machine drownded out the quite.
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