Need help with 7wk old sleep pattern

[angel25705]

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[j-love]

I would say that a schedule is key. Regular nursing, palytime and naps throughout the day will greatly improve night time sleep. Also, try the bedtime routine EVERY night. As far as the pacifier, it is each person's choice, but I do not see how a pacifier would interfere with nursing. If you are not against it, then try the pacifier. Good luck!

[angel25705]

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[ra11en]

Our pediatrician also said 7 weeks was too young to enforce a real schedule. We were told to allow her to sleep when she wanted, but she gave us tips to start observing her pattern. Around 12 weeks is when I really started loosely enforcing a sleep schedule.

We did make every attempt to help our DD get and keep her days/nights correct. Around 7:30 every night I dimmed all the lights, no loud TV or noises, and at 8weeks even started keeping her in her room / sleeping in her crib. It made for very long nights since she wasn't sleeping for more than 5-6 hours and only one stretch of that a night. But, it helped her keep her days separate from her nights, and she did her long stretch at night and not during the day.

7 weeks really is still very young to be trying to enforce a real schedule. There are some great articles on this sight that outline a good way of how such a little one should sleep. Its more of a x hours awake and then a nap, which isn't the same as an older baby that tends to sleep at the same time every day in a structured schedule.

Our daycare also didn't enforce a sleep / nap schedule until our DD was moved into the 6 mo room. In the nursery she was allowed to sleep whenever she wanted to sleep, no schedule. When she moved to the 6mo room they did a twice a day nap although they were still allowed to sleep whenever they wanted to. Then, the 12 mo room was much more scheduled, once a day.

Good luck, but I think you might be expecting too much too soon. I promise you that this phase flies by so fast. I look back and miss those hours with my DD where we just lounged about because she didn't know she was supposed to sleep on my schedule. :) I didn't know it at the time, but those moments were precious and fleeting.

[H.Starr]

Our dr told us to start working on a schedule immediately, from the day our son was born. So we did, and by six weeks he was sleeping 10-12 hours per night.
Schedules are very very important. Even just simple little routines, bath at the same time everytime, the order of things - bath then pajamas then bottle then bed, etc, every little detail is important to a baby. Try to keep every evening exactly the same.

[angel25705]

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