Like the other girls have said, hang in there, it gets better!! Our first 10 days were chaos, his unsettled time was between about 7am and about 11am and it was slowly driving me insanne, I just could not get him to sleep, but slowly over the last week things have improved a lot and I have my sanity back!!

I pretty much have the same advice that's already been given...She will work out night from day pretty soon - start a bedtime routine at night (we do feed, awake time and a bit of a cuddle etc, bath, then a top up feed, then put him down. He generally settles pretty well) and remember during the night to keep lights dim, limit talking and stimulation etc and she will soon work it out.

It honestly does get better, even though you can't see it now - a week ago I couldn't see it either but things have turned around very quickly.

PS - we've never been told that you can't bath a baby until their umbilical stump falls off??? Not sure where that advice is from Ryn, maybe a UK thing? Both my babies had their first full bath before they left hospital and DS was less than 48 hours old when we were discharged. I have bathed him every night since as it helps to settle him before he goes to sleep. His cord fell off after about 7 days.