My baby won’t go to sleep

My 3 weeks old daughter is suddenly very awake and doesn’t want to go to sleep. Used to be easy, feed and she’ll be sleepy and just put her back in cot. Only fusses when diaper is soiled, and when she’s hungry again. Now she’s not having it. She’ll go quiet during feeding and unlatches from the mother after she falls asleep, put her in the cot and she immediately stirs up and cries. Carry her and cradle her and sing to her and she doze off, put her back in and cry again. Checks her diapers and change, feed again in case for comfort feeding. She falls asleep and put her back in cot and immediately same thing happens again. This can go on for hours! Instead of 2-3 hours feeding interval it’s become 6-7 hours of just cradling and re-latching just to keep her at that “sleep mode”. We are at our wits end. Don’t know what to do! #pleasehelp #advicepls

Chris Herwan Polii

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I'm going through the same with my 7 day old preemie nb. What I know is that sometimes they seek comfort through latching. I only brought home my nb 2 days ago and honestly it drives me crazy on the 1st night cos we did not buy any fm and I had to wake my husband up @ 1am and tell him to go out and buy a tin. So now I bf & also fm my baby since my milk is not much yet but I do express and store my milk. When my nb fusses and refuses to sleep, I will feed him with fm and he will go to sleep and wake up 3-4 hrs later. Most of the times I latch him. Only when he fusses and refuses to sleep then I give him fm.

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