A question for you if you have a 5, 6, or 7 week old baby?

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what sort of schedule is your baby on?  Not necessarily meaning you put them on a schedule, but what sort of schedule has your baby set for himself?  He eats every X amount of hours, he is awake for X amount of hours before taking a nap.  He is awake for X amount of hours before going to bed and he sleeps X amount of hours.

I have a 6 week old who is great all day, eats every 3 hours, is up for about 1 1/2 hours before taking naps, but in the evening she gets fussy and overtired and it takes hours and hours to get her to sleep at night.  She wakes up from her last nap around 4:00 and then we can't get her to sleep for the night until midnight or later and it takes forever to get her to sleep.

D · Accepted Answer

Sounds pretty typical. Usually 6 weeks is the peak of fussiness and difficulty with evening sleep. It is extremely typical for babies of that age, and normally after 6 weeks the fussiness will decrease and around 12 weeks or so you should have a reasonably even tempered baby who is getting on more of a schedule. At 6 weeks both my babies had evening fussiness (the first one about twice as intense as the second) and neither one would go to sleep before 10-11 on most nights. That was with tons of holding and comforting and breast feeding. By 3-4 months, both my babies had moved their evening sleep time up to about 6-7 pm and were sleeping longer stretches at night with less fussing and crying. Hang in there.

Anonymous · Answer

My daughter sleeps almost 5 hours wakes up eats a 4oz bottle plays for an hour or 2 goes back to sleep wakes up at 11p to eat then plays goes back to sleep at 12:20 stays asleep till 4am eats goes baxk to sleep wakes up again at 8 ahe is only a month

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At 6 weeks, there was no routine. My son had days where he slept all day for a couple days, then a day where he did not sleep at all.

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