Up All night...Sleep All Day!!

His days & nights are mixed up...she need to cut back on feeding him so much that he's full & then when he's trying to go to sleep KEEP him up. At night she need to feed him until he's full, bathe him & rub him down real good (like a massage) & he should sleep through the night.

When babies are born they have no sense of night and day and this can pose a problem when you want them to sleep on your schedule. Try as hard as you can to keep the baby awake during the day. New borns sleep all the time so naps are ok during the day but try to keep the baby awake as much as possible. If this means playing with him until he cant stay awake longer, do it! If it means you have to hold him and bounce him (gently) to keep him from falling asleep, do it! Try to keep him up later at night and soon he will get the idea and get used to it. Consistency is the key so stick with it even if you see no immediate results. I did this for my daughter the day I brought her home from the hospital and by 3 1/2 weeks she was sleeping through the night! Its different for all babies but once you get them used to a particular schedule it will be much easier for both of you!!
Hope this helps!
--S.

What worked for me was doing some things that are not "recommended"....I would wake up my baby every 3 hours at night to eat. I would do what I could to wake her, change her diaper, take off her PJ's, rub her neck or tummy. Just so she would eat...even if it was just for a few minutes on each side. I would tell her to try this. So that he might learn to eat every 3 hours or so and then that should make him tired in the day......but....it might just be a waiting game too....

At that age, babies need a lot of sleep during day & night. He will need to nap a lot during the day but at night, make the environment very quiet & dark. This is what worked for my son after awhile. My son liked to be swaddled so I would swaddle him and then hold him or rock him with low light & noise (maybe white noise would help) and he would eventually fall asleep. Essentially, make the environment during the day different than at night (at night low to no light, white noise, little stimulation, etc.; during the day, more activity, higher light level). Eventually he will catch on to the difference. I, too, breastfed, and my son breastfed quite a number of times during the night (& day!), which is normal and what he needs. I would consider it unusual if he slept through the night at this age while breastfed. Their tummies only hold the milk for 1 1/2 hours so they need to eat more often than formula fed babies.

He has his days and nights mixed up, this happened to me about 40 years ago. She need to keep him awake during the day, it is hard, but you have to do it! Tickling the bottom of his feet, anything to keep him awake, and it may take a couple of days, and they can be rough, but it will finally give her some rest during the night. Finally baby boy will realize that he needs to sleep during the night. This is a tough time for mom, but hang in there, being a mom is the best thing that ever happened to me!

My oldest had the same exact problem and the nurse at the hospital told me to keep it dark for a couple of days in the house during the day and lights on at night. Sounds as though this little one has his days and nights mixed up. Keep some white noise going during the night to help him sleep. He hears so many things during the day that calms him, so she'll need to change and have those sounds going on during the night. It took my daughter about 3 days. Let him take his naps during the day also, don't stop him from that, but do try to keep him up for periods of time too. Good Luck and God Bless.

From the day my daughter was born we always had noise going on during the day and my husband and I went to bed together at night. If she needed a diaper change or to nurse at night we did it quietly and without much light. We just kept a night light on so that we could see. Night time was always quiet and daytime always had something going on. At this age babies are going to only sleep for a couple of hours at a time and they will do it through the day and night. Some babies sleep for longer streches at night, but my daughter was never one of them. She didn't start that until she was about 3 months old. I wish your friend the best of luck.

She needs to wake him up more during the day. Try to talk to him and play with him more to keep him awake a little more. It will take a while to get his days and nights reversed but the more he is awake during the day then he should sleep a little more at night. Newborns do sleep a lot but after an hour nap then wake him up and maybe let him sleep a few hours during the time you would want him to take a nap like 12-2.

I'm a little late with this, but I've been there and done that. Have your friend try putting the baby down in the main part of the house during the day if she can. In a pack & play or something like that. And also to go about her normal routine when he's sleeping. Watch TV, run the diswasher, talk on the phone what ever. I use to vacume the house when my babies were sleeping and vacume right under their beds. They will still sleep, but won't sleep as deep. Then at night put then to bed in his room/bed with the door shut and as quite as you can get be. This did 2 things for us. One our kids got on a better scheudle and 2 our kids can sleep through anything and anywhere. It won't happen over night, it will take time, but it does work. Also wake him up every 2 or 3 hours, what ever schedule she'd like him on. Talk to him, change his diaper and try nursing him. This combined with the noise of everyday things worked for me and for my sister (we also breastfed). When doing the waking up thing often he'll just stir, won't eat and will go back to sleep (most of the time at first) but after a while this all comes together. Also 6 weeks was the magic number for me. At 6 weeks my babies would sleep for about 5 or 6 hour stretches at a time. But I did have them around all the household activites during the day and bugged them about every 3 hours.

I would not make it real quiet in the day or dark. That small of a baby needs to sleep some during the day though. In the evening I would try to get the whole family involved in talking to him - showing him things - try to keep him awake during the evenings. And hopefully he'll adjust on his own.