Why won't my 7w old sleep after bath time?

Well that backfired. I tried to keep him awake after his feed this morning so that he was awake a full 75-90 mins but couldn't get him back to sleep and he screamed blue murder for the next 90 minutes before sleeping 30 minutes and waking again in a grump. I think I will just go back to his prev schedule. Atleast he's not unhappy with it and i'f rather cuddle him every evening for the next few weeks than suffer another morning like today. I'll worry about it in a month or 2 again. Thanks anyway everyone.

Thanks. Yes I also think maybe he is sleeping too
much. Will try get him up a bit earlier this week and see how it goes.

Thanks. Yes I also think maybe he is sleeping too
much. Will try get him up a bit earlier this week and see how it goes.

I was working with triplets. And they had a 'specialist' in to help set a routine as 3 babies all on a different routine was too strenuous.

This person said that from 2 months, you can set this routine.

Wake baby at 6. feed and play and put to sleep at 7:30. baby must stay in the cot for 90 minutes (until 9). when putting baby down, say dudu or sleep or something, but always the same word. place a teddy in the cot that baby can see. this teddy must always be in the cot so he/she can associate it with sleep. if baby wakes during the 90 minutes, do not pick up baby. put dummy in mouth, no eye contact and say dudu.
wake baby at 9. feed and play until 10:30. put baby to sleep and only wake at 12. feed and play until 13:30. put to sleep and wake at 15:00.
this is where it gets tricky as you dont want baby to now sleep close to bedtime, so let baby have small naps here and there. bath at 6pm. feed and cuddle and sleep by 7-7:30pm.

If baby wakes later in the mornings, say 7am, just incorporate these 90 minutes accordingly. awake with feed and play for 90 minutes, sleep for 90 minutes. it took a week for the triplets to get use to it.
they still get a little niggly occassionaly, but everything is so much easier. they do not like to stay awake for 90 minutes, but we try stretch it to at least 80 minutes. generally they do sleep for the full 90 minutes though.

Your baby should be awake for about 40 to 60 minutes at a time. When your baby is 7 weeks old they are generally not in a routine and that is why you need to start putting her into a routine now. My son is 5 months old and has only been in a routine for about a month now. It took 4 months for him to settle into his day sleeps. Sometimes I used to struggle for hours to put him to sleep in the day and then he would sleep for 20 minutes. So frustrating. But if you perservere she will eventually click and when it is time to sleep, she will sleep. Try ensure you time her feeds so when you put her down for a sleep she is not due to be fed soon. This way she won''t wake up because she is hungry.

She may have her days and nights mixed up so here I suggest waking her every 3 hours during the day so she can feed that way she will start to realise that she needs to wake for her feeds during the day and sleep at night although at 7 weeks I assume she is still having about 3 bottles in the night. Personally I always leave my son to sleep so if he sleeps through a feed then he will let me know when he is hungry but it is a different story if she is sleeping the whole day through and waking very regularly at night.

Yes it really does sound like your little one sleeps a lot during the day. I'd say to start his day earlier. Get him 'up' around 7, open the curtains, greet the sun, the whole shabang.

I don't have my babysense book anymore but if I remember correctly 'content awake' time for a 7 week old is 30 - 90min so try and 'stretch' awake times, not by constantly playing, but keep it calm and relaxed.

That said, try it but the moment you think you have it down to a pat baby decides to change on you!

My LO is 5 weeks and the first couple of weeks he would stay awake from 9pm til 11pm. This was because he slept too much during the day. Now he stays awake longer during the day sometimes having a 15-20 min nap inbetween and sleeps longer at night.