6week old won't sleep

[leesha]

Oh girls thank you for the replies!!
I have the sounds for silence cd that worked with the other two especially when playing the white noise! This little guy it does nothing for!
My concern is I guess that he is falling asleep easily enough on me but once put down or taken out of the car he is wide awake and just not getting enough sleep. I know it's becoming an issue now as he is very laid back and cruzy but Yesty and today is very irritable when left on the floor on his playmat or lied in his cot. You can tell he is not getting enough sleep.
The only sleep he had today was half an hour this morning and again at about 5pm and that was in his rocker!
Just a thought, he had immunisations on friday, do you think that could be exacerbating the sleeping issue??
Thanks for the concern about me but I'm coping as best I can, dh is a baker so is gone all night working and then sleeps all day so keeping the house quiet and keeping on top of the housework is hard. Ds1 is at my parents for a few nights this week so that will help!
I know this will pass but right now it is feeling like a big issue that's not getting any better :-(

[Three Graces]

Do you think he's getting overtired and then that's making it harder for him to settle?
I spent a week at sleep school with our first, who was a reflux baby and he only slept for 20 mins at a time,during the day. OMG. It was exhausting. He would wake up and be cranky b/c he wasn't getting enough sleep. Even the sleep school people said that I was doing everything that they recommended and some babies just have to outgrow that stage.
One thing we did learn was that all babies cycle through the different sleep cycles and come up to the surface after 20-40 mins and can wake easily or appear awake at these times. They will grizzle or cry a little and it's getting them to fall back into the next sleep cycle that's hard. Have you tried to re-settle him when he first wakes, without picking him up straight away? It can take some babies awhile to get this. Adults also do the same thing at night, but we've learnt how to sleep through and not fully wake up etc.

Sometimes, they will wake up after the initial cycle and if they're not where they were, when they fell asleep,they will wake up fully and cry. DS1 would do this, cos he would no longer be in our arms where he fell asleep. Not sure if you could try transferring bubs when they're sleepy but not asleep into their cot? Takes ages to pat, or rock them off to sleep. Also, maybe look up early tired cues - this is what saved us with all of our kids - the jerky arms/ legs when they're up/clenched fists and looking away - bam! get them into bed pronto and they sleep much better and for longer. Whereas, if you wait for yawning, crying etc these are late tired cues and boy it's hard to get them down when they're overtired.
We've just driven back 1.5hrs from Melb where we've been to a funeral/wake all day and the kids were feral by the time we got home. I was really scared that DD wouldn't go down as she screamed for about half the drive home.
And as somebody else mentioned, just do what works for your bub, right now. Hope things improve soon for you