Four week old still mixing up day and night?

My baby is 4 week old this week and she's only just stopped doing that. Newborn babies take time to establish a routine so they don't know if its day or night. It should keep switching around until eventually she can sleep for longer at night. You should give her time before her last feed to have as much as she can. If my baby only has half of what she should she'd last an hour or 2. But if she finishes it off she can last 4 hours. Be persistent she might want more but the bottle may be too cold tr warming it up (warm bottle also helps make them sleep)

You could try a bath, warm bottle and then she should settle

When you get up with her during night try give her as much as you can again, plus I found a hot water bottle in her Moses basket to keep it nice & warm while shes out of it helps

This is normal 4 week old behavior and each baby is so different that it's difficult to give advice. Eventually the sleep schedule starts to sort itself out but with your baby it's probably going to be a few more weeks. Sleep patterns are ever changing.

It's easier to control the baby's waking time than it is their sleeping time since it's difficult to make them fall asleep when you want them to sleep. You could try keeping her awake longer rather than let her go to sleep at 8:00. If she's sleeping longer than you want her to or sleeping when you don't want her to, you can always start waking her a little earlier from naps.

But I think four weeks is a bit unrealistic to start trying this because at that age they need to feed so often. It's just expected that sleep patterns will be determined by the need to feed. When my babies hit about 10-12 lbs. they seemed to start sleeping longer at night.

First of all, if her days and nights are mixed up, try keeping the house as bright as possible during the day, even when she's napping, and keep it as dark as possible at night. This seemed to help train our son's brain.

Second, as I'm sure you know, every child is different. Where your first two didn't have this problem, could your third just be more of a mommy's girl or have some separation anxiety? Depending on if she sleeps with you or not, she could just be wanting to spend time with you. If so, having her sleep in your bed could solve that easily.

Our baby boy was exactly the same way. We thought it was good parenting to have him sleep in his crib, but he wasn't happy and neither of us were sleeping. Then we got a bassinet and put it right beside our bed which really improved things, but he was still waking up like he was. He was just easier to get to sleep when I'd rest my hand on his tummy. The best was when we just had him sleep with us. He'd wake up to nurse, but I would already be on my side facing him which made nursing a breeze. I wouldn't even have to roll us both over to switch sides, since both nipples (T.M.I., I know 🙊) were in easy reach. After some minutes he would even fall asleep nursing. Sometimes I'd wake up and realize we both fell asleep. Parenting had suddenly become much easier and enjoyable for both of us because, most of the time, we wouldn't have to even get out of bed. If you do have to get out of bed to change a diaper, still try to keep it as dark as possible in the house. I HEARD that light can tell the body to decrease melatonin, the hormone that makes us sleep. Congratulations on your new bundle of joy!

That's normal. Umm. For my first he only woke up three times a night for about three months. After that he slept 12 hrs a night. But For my second son-- for the first three months my son would get up about three-four times. Then by 4 month to about 7 months would get up only twice. Then from 8-now (10) months he sleeps almost 12 hrs. Donor Definately varies.

attempt to maintain bub up as much as conceivable for the duration of the day. Get a habitual going at night so bub starts getting to understand the type between night and day. perhaps attempt a tub in the previous mattress observed by utilising a feed, then verify each and every thing is dark and no noise, although for the duration of the day in simple terms verify she naps for perhaps an hour or 2, yet pull lower back any curtains interior the room the place she is drowsing yet do no longer flow overboard and attempt and darken the room and don't turn the television down or communicate quietly in simple terms flow approximately your accepted issues as though she weren't there. bear in mind what you do now bub gets used to so in case you verify each and every thing is great quiet that's what bub gets used to while they're older and attempting to sleep as bub gets used to a habitual.

Your other two were a little different then! LOL! Lucky you, and congrats on the baby! I didn't know you'd had her already! I think what you're experiencing with your new baby is PERFECTLY normal. My babies didn't have a normal sleep pattern until they were about 3-4 months old!

first off dont play with her or she gets excited and wont want to go back to sleep she will just want to play my son used to wake at 11pm for feed and then at 3am and he wouldnt go back to sleep until about 8am every day for the first 12 months it depends on the baby really i normally put second child who is 16 weeks (done this since 3 weeks) back straight into cot with new nappy on and put a man in the moon on and she dozes back off. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9... the link is the best i could find to what i have (man in the moon)

Good Luck x

Only 4 weeks in and you're expecting it to have a sleeping schedule? Good luck with that.

you had another baby? congrats!

my son only started sleeping 6 hrs straight TTN at 6 weeks. i think they just grow into it..if you are lucky, lol. good luck.

It's just normal...not everyone is same....ur first child and second are same either......