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How can I get a newborn to sleep most of the night?

How can I get a newborn to sleep most of the night?

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1. I don't think you can unless they do it themselves but letting them eat as much as they want to during the day helps.

2. A newborn is going to wake, no matter what you do. New babies need to eat often and are taking time to adjust. Just keep night time dark, quiet and boring and baby will get the hang of it eventually.

3. You cannot. They are so little, their tummies are the size of their fist. they get hungry and need fed every 2 to 3 hours. The older they get, the more they eat, the less they wake at night.

4. It is almost impossible (and not even healthy) for a newborn to sleep most of the night. Their little bodies aren't mature enough to make it all night because they need constant nourishment.

Most pediatricians would tell a new mother that said her newborn is sleeping through feedings to actually wake the baby and make sure he/she is eating at regular intervals.

By about 6 months, if your baby isn't sleeping through the night or nearly, you could supplement the bottle with a serving of cereal so he/she will have a full tummy to make it through most of the night.

5. Well... most of the time they NEVER do. However, if your newborn is experiencing a bit too much crying and irritation it could be the formula. Check with your doctor or go try another formula on your own. Something that is considered gentle... My daughter had cholic (crying a lot from her formula) doctor switched her to Isomil, crying stopped (well not stopped but lessened). I know they make many other types of formula, you could ask a question on here about cholic and best formula and get responses that are more current. My daughter is 8, so that was 8 years ago!

6. That's a mission impossible. If you breastfeed I'd recommend co-sleeping and allowing baby to nurse while you rest. Then all you'll have to get up for is diaper changes and burping (as long as baby isn't colicky... then it'll be a long night...).

7. Always make sure baby has a dry diaper, fed and clean. He or she could have her nights and days mixed up but then again most newborns sleep all the time throughout the day and throughout the night. The only thing I can suggest you try is during the late afternoons heading into evenings see if you can keep her up longer than usual. Just a suggestion. I wouldn't recommend interferring with his/her sleep too much.

8. My friend just had a baby and swears by getting your new baby on a schedule...she read the book, Baby Wise and her baby is wonderful! Of course all babies are different and sometimes they will sleep through the night and other times they won't. I know that even though I breastfed giving my little ones a bottle of formula b/f bedtime helped keep their bellies full throughout the night. Good luck and hopefully Sweet Dreams!

9. You can't, and you should not expect a newborn to sleep all night until they are about two months old. Each week they will, perhaps, sleep a bit longer between feedings, but you must be patient for the baby to reach two months, or thereabouts, and by then he or she will settle into a nice little routine. Blessings to you.

10. Your question leads me to believe that you are either too young to be a mother (probably a single mother) or not ready to be a mother.

11. Define newborn... my son slept 6 hours at 5 weeks and my daughter does 7-8 at 9 weeks. Make sure that you don't let your child sleep too much during the day (at about 6 weeks, I kept my daughter up for 1 - 1.5 hours out of each 3 hour feeding cycle. Awake time includes feeding, diaper change, and back/tummy time). Follow the feed, activity, sleep cycle - it's hard, because your baby will naturally want to sleep on the breast. However, this way, your child has happy awake time because she's just eaten, goes to sleep while tired after playing, and wakes up happy because she knows she's about to eat.

Right before bed, give two feeds close together. Eg. feed, bath, song, bottle or breast again before going down. Swaddle to sleep. If your child is always getting loose from the swaddle, try the miracle blanket http://www.atlantisnatural.com/Miracle-Blanket-Pink/M/B000G0J5FU.htm?utm_campaign=froogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=froogle. it looks like a straight jacket and the baby may fuss at first, but after four days use, just being laid on top of it makes my baby smile because she knows she's going to sleep.

12. U cant - they need to get fed and changed regularly - best tip I was given was to get them up, dressed, fed, hugged, and back to bed in under 1 hour day and night for first few weeks - then let them stay awake more and more - dont worry - I still get my two (8 and 12) climbing in my bed!

13. how new is newborn? in the first six weeks or so, you really cant. they are used to nine months of continual nourishment so getting used to eating at intervals takes some getting used to.
having said all that, both mine were sleeping through at six weeks. the method i used was to let my babes sleep in a moses basket next to my bed until they slept through. when they woke in the night i lifted them out as quietly as possible and fed them without talking to them or turning on the light.
only let your baby sleep in his/her bed at night. during the day let him/her sleep in the pram downstairs. the noise of day to day life will help with the night time sleeping. never talk to your baby at night, and try to feed him/her with the lights off. (a night light helps)
at some point (about five or six weeks) your baby should sleep nearly all night (the core night) after this night only offer water if the baby wakes at night. the incentive to wake up is then taken away. if you dont weaken and stick to the 'rules' it should work.
having said all that, every baby is different, so dont feel like crap if it doesn't go exactly to plan.

14. Have you tried white noise? I've heard it sounds like it does before their born.

From what I've seen, they kind of make their own schedule!

Congrats on your new baby!

15. give a nice warm bath then i feed my son his last feeding at about 12 or 1 and then he sleeps till about 6

16. if you can get this to happen, let me know how you did it.

17. good luck wit that my daughters 4 months and only get 6 hrs of sleep the first day i brought her home i only had 2 hrs of sleep. my doctor said try to wake them up in the mornin when their sleeping, the more they stay wake in the mornin the more they sleep at nite