6 Week Old Baby Staying up Late

She will adjust, but one thing you might do is to leave her up with your husband till around 11-midnite and then have him bring her to bed so you can nurse her. Then she may at least want to sleep earlier. That's what we did with my older son - he was and still is a nite owl. The nursing that often is actually perfect at this age. And, it might actually help to push it to every 2 hours during the day - that may lengthen the time she can go at nite.

Also, for the light thing, perhaps getting a dimmer switch, so you can gradually adjust the light to a lower and lower level everyday, so that eventually she's accustomed to the dark. And, again, there's no reason if you nurse her at 9-10pm that you can't get 2-3 hrs of sleep before the next nursing. My younger son was very much this way until about 2 mos and then it's like a switch was flipped and he got so he would go to bed early, nurse at about 2 am and then wake up 5-6am for nursing. Now, he was an early bird - I found this harder overtime than having a night owl as I got no time to myself in the morning until he hit the preteen years.

Anyways, good luck - I always found that you have to try a few things before you hit on what works for you both. And, again for us, bringing the baby to bed at nite worked best for everyone to get sleep - for my younger son, we did the "sidecar", with his bed by our bed.

Make sure she gets plenty of sunlight during the day. The sun helps the brain to reset its sleep cycles.

I suggest the book The Baby Whisperer. It was wonderful for me!!

Do you bathe her every night? For my son we made it a routine that when it was about time to go to bed we would give him a nice warm bath (we use only aveno products cause he has allergies) with the nighttime lavendar bath stuff and nighttime lotion after, put on pajamas and then he would eat. He only had problems with days and night confusion for the first few weeks after we brought him home but aafter starting this routine he has slept through the night since he was 6 weeks old. He is now almost 7 months and we still follow the same schedule for him. He goes down between 6:30 and 7pm and gets up with me at 5:30-6am.

The bath followed by nursing routine has really helped us. (my daughter is 9wks now) I know everyone recommends different books but The Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr Harvey Karp was very helpful for us all around. My big life saver was the Prince Lionheart Slumber Bear. It has the recording of a heartbeat from inside the womb which made my daughter calm down and relax making it easier to fall asleep at a reasonable time. :) Good luck!

Start a bedtime routine. Turn off the lights at night and do not interact with her while you give her a bottle or rock her or whatever you do before bed.