Tips for Adjusting Night-time Schedule

I am a firm believer in waking baby every 1.5 hours during the day to feed him/her. By dong this with my second, he was on a great night schedule almost immediately, and was sleeping 7 hours by 5.5 weeks.

I'd use a damp wash cloth to wake him up if he wasn't really willing. Yes, I am one of those mean mommy's who wakes a newborn. It worked great with my son, and I'm planning on doing it again with my third.

Also, make sure you wake baby at the same time every morning. I found my son would nap from 5-7, and then be up till 9ish at that age.

I used to put my infants in the room where we were during the day except for exact nap times. That way they don't sleep as soundly until they day and night straightened out. But on the other hand at this age almost all of my kids did what your baby is doing and were going down around 1 a.m. for the night. I think you may have to work on it for a bit but I would think around a month or so it will be much easier. At 2 weeks old the baby is still adjusting just like you are. It will be hard for a while but soon end. Just nap when the kids are in school and put the preschooler down when you and baby nap or lay down while that one plays near you. Whatever you can do to rest some. I think with some of mine if I fed them around 8 or so I would try to play with them and keep them more awake then until the next feeding so they were a bit more worn out. Maybe an evening bath or washing instead of in the morning or day time would also help to get him tired.

What I've always found to work is to adjust the late feeding times. If you're "last" feeding of the night is at 10 and he's wide awake until you feed him again at 1, try feeding him at 9 or 9:30, even if you have to wake him to do so. At that age, mine both napped in the early evening between the 6:30 and 9:30 feedings, but then wanted to be awake until the 12:30 feeding. They would sleep from about 1 am to 6:30 am, but those hours at night were so hard. I found that if I woke them from their evening nap at 8-8:30 and nursed then, they were asleep by 10 and slept until about 8:30 am. I hope it works for you! Good Luck!

You say that the little one is awake from 10-1, but how is S/he sleeping druing the day?

Try waking up earlier? Going for a Brisk walk.. the cold seems to wear them out, So maybe a walk at 8 pm . (10 mins.. if that) will help "wear them out" so S/he will sleep.

Good luck

Can you add an early evening nap to his schedule but not have him down for the night? I know at only 2 weeks its hard b/c they pretty much sleep when they need to as opposed to truly being on a schedule. Also try exposing him to natural sun light as soon as he wakes for the day to help set his internal clock a bit earlier. Unfortunately it will probably just take a few more weeks to get him on a better routine. Good luck!!