Sleep Advice

Well he/she is still so little! Mine were all different! Make as little noise and as little light on when you get up. Then again maybe they just want a little mommy time, they grow so fast and soon to big to want mommy! Cherish it and good luck!

My son did the same thing when he was an infant except he would wake up at about 1:00am and not go back to sleep until 5:00am (yeah). I think the other advice is good but you may also need to be patient. It may take a couple of weeks for your baby to catch on. Maybe he/she is crampy (coloric) and if that is the case you may want to get medical advice. Also, I just got to the point where I would just hold him and we both fell asleep. I know you don't want to start any bad habits but just try it for a while and see what happens. Good Luck.

P.S. My son did eventually sleep through the night (10:00-6:00) by the time he was three months old.

You're in that difficult zone between 8 weeks and 4 months where you want to establish sleep patterns, but it can be a challenge.

In addition to the advice here, I want to suggest the '10-minute rule'. Around 2 - 3 months, we started ignoring our daughters for 10 minutes when we put them down to sleep and seeing what happened. The ten minutes seemed really long at first but it is a good measure of whether or not they are mature enough to go to sleep on their own. Eventually (at different ages for both of them) they would cry for less and less time and put themselves back to sleep. For the older daughter, it was a necessity to do this by about twelve weeks (she couldn't sleep with us holding her) and for the younger one, it started working closer to four months.

Good luck!

Oh my. 8 weeks old...I have five children, and each had different habits right from birth. I advocate stress-free parenting. When my infants woke up in the middle of the night, I put them in bed with me and nursed them back to sleep with them lying on top of me or at my side. Even if they did not immediately go back to sleep, I did, and eventually they adapted to the same schedule. I even survived my colicky baby who slept in 20-minute increments, and I was always refreshed in the morning.

I've always wondered why our culture makes it so difficult for new mothers...just go with your heart and meet their needs for love, touch, and soothing presence. This stage of development is for bonding; they'll hit the next stage soon enough.

I had the same problem and this is what seemed to work for us. When you get up at 3 or 4am to feed, keep the lights out and minimize any stimulation or talking. This way your little one doesn't feel like it's time to get up and get rolling. I did the same thing if I had to change my daughter's diaper, kept everything very quiet and dark and put her back to bed as soon as I was done. Hope this helps.
Good luck.

You could try nursing while laying down. Or if you want to be sitting up, keep the room dark and rock while you nurse. I used to lay down on my couch and nurse or sometimes in my bed. That way I could get some extra sleep while baby ate and baby would eventually fall back asleep as well.

When you go for that feeding make sure you are very quiet, talk softly or not at all. Turn on as little light as possible. You could let your baby lay there and comfort itself back to sleep - good practice for sleeping through the night!!
You may already be doing these things, but this is the only advice I have!
Good luck!
L.

Sleep is for the WEAK!
My husband and I joke with eachother and say that when times are tough.
I think this is just God's funny way of preparing us for many selfless years ahead.
If you are nursing, let the baby feed with you at night and go back to sleep together. If you are bottle feeding, they have the coolest bottle only sold at babies r us. It is called the Podee I think, or maybe you can google and find it online. A doctor trying to help out moms of fussy, gassy kids, invented a bottle that has a straw to the bottom of the bottle that remains upright, and a flexible plexi straw attached to the nipple, like a pacifier that they suck the milk out of. They can just spit it out when they are done eating. I know it's hard to visualize. Look it up online. It's good for nightime, carseats, strollers, and there is less air. GOOD TIMES!