Swaddle him, hold him close, walk around bouncing him a tiny tiny bit while saying ''shhhhh'', try walking around outside. Sammy would be a screaming mess inside, and when we took him outside he'd settle (sometimes not for very long, but long enough to get your head together again!)
Sammy also spent aaagggggeeeessss being BF, he was born pretty big (instead of thinking ''aww he's so small'' when he was handed to me, I thought ''holy crap he's huge!''), so had to feed lots to get my supply up. I remember one night just looking out at the stars while bf'ing my boy for the zillionth time and thinking ''he'll only be 5 days old once, he'll only be 5 days old once'' in order to get through it.
Keep in mind nothing may work. It's not your fault. And what works once may never work again, and what didn't work the first 50 times may suddenly work one day. All normal.
And yes, Sammy was awake for massive periods of time every so often. It was normal for him?
I've done everything you've listed, except the baby carrier thing because this little episode lasted all afternoon, and all night. DP just didn't bother to go to bed at all. We did go out to the shops for a walk as DS is always happy in the pram, but as soon as we got home he'd worked himself up again.
It's been better today so far but he's still just fighting sleep and waking up really easily. The GP gave us infacol wind drops to try today, and reccomended routine routine routine. Thanks for your ideas, I'm going go go and find my baby carrier for the next inevitable outburst.
This too shall pass lol. I just wish DP could be at home with me forever. Axel loves his Dad and settles better for him.
He might be about to or starting to have a growth spurt too and might actually be hungrier than usual, and waiting for your supply to catch up?
I had a really similar thing with DD, (although it turned out she wasn't feeding off me properly) but at one week old the same deal...just couldn't settle her at all. It was taking 4 hours to get her down for the night! The LC did mention that this is about the time their appetite increases a little.
We figured out she wasn't getting enough as she had lost weight. (not saying this is the case with you guys, but thought I would throw it in!) As soon as I started expressing for her, she became a dream baby and was so easy to settle again because her tummy was finally full!
We are now back to solely breastfeeding as my supply has increased and we have overcome our bf probs (she had a tongue tie).
Have you tried expressing and giving some in a bottle as a top up just to see if this makes a difference? Even at night before bub goes down.
if bub is happy to sleep in the pram then i'd just leave him there lol
i agree with the carrier, it was the best thing ever for dd2. Miss S was the same as your ds though and all i could do was cuddle, bounce sing, walk rock etc. and it would be hours on end.
The carrier was a life saver for DS in the early days. Both DD and DS would also cluster feed so from about 4pm to 9pm I think I was feeding them hourly. It meant I was chained to the sofa, but then they would happily sleep for 5hours after that.
Good luck, its such a guessing game most of the time, but it does get easier
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