Human dummy!

My 6 week old daughter has been so hard to put to sleep the last few days! It’s not witching hour anymore, it’s a whole day thing! It’s like she’s fighting her sleep and wakes easily, we don’t even put her down, she’s constantly in our arms. I’ve had her on my breast since 5pm, it’s now 10pm. She is suckling in between, but generally not like her normal “chugging” it down cause she’s hungry! She’s falling asleep on the boob and when she loosens her latch i pull out! She’ll say settled for 5 min before she’s looking for boob again. I won’t give it and will try to walk and settle here but she becomes squirmy. Even a dummy doesn’t work for long! I can’t do this everyday nor do I want to create a habit of her falling asleep on the boob cause that’ll mean she’ll never fall asleep with husband and bottle I’m really feeling overwhelmed this week! She’s so fussy, I literally can’t put her down during the day when she is sleeping! So basically the only time she goes down is for diaper change! I’m literally carrying her for 14+ hours a day and I’m over it. But if I put her die she wakes in 5 minutes 🥲 now it’s nipple a a dummy? I’m tired.
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I literally could have wrote this. Very similar experience with my 6 week old last night 🙈 I'm gonna try her in my sling today if she's the same at least then I'll be able to get a few things done.

I think there’s a growth spurt and a leap around 6 weeks, so it could be those things coming into play and it will hopefully pass in a few days. My daughter was also very difficult to put down unless I was right with her so relied on the sling and going for walks to get her to sleep so I got a break from holding her and sometimes she would stay asleep after getting home.

Mine did the same thing at 6 weeks it's a growth spurt it lasted what felt like forever, but it was maybe less than a week. I even caved and tried a pacifier, which he didn't care for. He was growing and needed mommy 🥹

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