新生兒夜裡要顧，夫妻怎麼輪班才能都睡到一些？ Real household: c

Tonight (Sunday → Monday morning) is one rota, not two people trying to survive: each of you gets one uninterrupted 4-hour block in a bed, and the baby is on a written handover at 01:00. Newborn night waking is normal — the goal is a manageable rhythm and two adults who can still think clearly, not zero wakings.

Full one-pager (screenshot-friendly, 7 sections): newborn-night-rotation-onepager-2026-11-01-24c7fad2.pdf

Which night: tonight, Sunday 1 Nov → Monday. Two caregivers, one newborn, a school week and an elder at home.

Tonight's three moves

1. Write the two blocks on the fridge before 20:00. If the baby settles at 20:45: Parent A on duty 21:00–01:00, Parent B in bed 21:00–01:00 (4 h, door closed); swap at 01:00 with the written handover; A sleeps 01:00–05:00; B rests again 05:00–07:15 while A does breakfast and the Monday school bags. If your baby goes down later, move both blocks by the same amount.
2. The handover note (fridge, 2 min): last feed time · wet nappies since · anything unusual (colour, breathing, temperature, new sound) · next agreed feed · what B does next. Say it out loud in one sentence. Rota is decided in daylight, never re-litigated at 03:00.
3. Crib set up before 20:00 — firm, flat, empty, baby on the back, in your room. And the rule that makes the block real: *the baby goes into the crib before you sit down to feed*. If you might drift off, the baby is already down.

One weekly anchor: same wake time every day this week, including the day after a bad night — and the 20–40 min nap before 15:00 for whoever got the short night, instead of going to bed early. Shifting the whole family's clock on a school week costs you both.

Already tried → better version (short version)

• "Both of us stay up all night" → two named blocks, decided in daylight.
• "You take the first feed, I'll take the rest" → fixed clock blocks, written handover.
• Rocking until you doze → baby in the crib first, then feed/hold.
• Catch up by sleeping at 20:00 → fixed wake time + a nap before 15:00.
• Buy equipment → the fridge note, the chair, the spare water. Nothing to buy.

Avoid list: sofa/armchair with the baby (most dangerous surface, exactly where a tired adult ends up) · cry-it-out as tonight's plan for a newborn · melatonin, antihistamines, "sleeping drops", powders or anything bought online · changing feed volumes or inventing a feeding interval (if a clinician gave an interval, that one wins) · both awake all night · driving or carrying the baby while sleepy · arguing at 03:00 · locking the elder in from outside.

Red flags — stop home care

• The emergency number here was not verified for where you are — dial your local emergency number, or tell me which country you are in and I will look it up. elsewhere use your local emergency number):** blue lips or face in sleep, breathing pauses, ribs pulling in, hard to wake, floppy, green or bloody vomit, blood in the stool, a seizure. Don't drive yourself.
• Same-day clinical contact: fever in a young infant, refuses feeds, markedly fewer wet nappies than usual, a scream that won't settle, or crying hard for 15+ minutes even while held — that's not a rota problem. Bring the feed/nappy log.
• Waking often but feeding well, nappies normal, bright in the day → keep the rotation.
• Adults: falling asleep while holding the baby, at the wheel or mid-sentence → stop, hand over, don't drive. "I can't keep going" today → call for help today (family, respite, maternity/paediatric service); asking is not failing your baby. Weeks of broken sleep with daytime collapse → clinician, with your sleep diary. Don't touch the CPAP settings or read its numbers yourself; the person who set the machine reads the download.
• Elder at home: exits openable from inside (thumb turn off, no outer lock); the on-duty adult checks her as part of the block; if she is outside, The emergency number here was not verified for where you are — dial your local emergency number, or tell me which country you are in and I will look it up.

Diary vs clinician this week: keep a two-line log for seven days — block start/end times for each of you, plus feeds and nappies. No formal diary needed for the rota itself, and no clinic visit needed for the rota itself. Bring the log to your baby's paediatric review; if an adult caregiver's sleep is still broken after a week of this rota (or the CPAP numbers don't change how they feel), that week is for taking the log to the sleep clinic rather than trying harder.

Success in 24 hours (not a promise): each adult logs one uninterrupted 4-hour block · the 01:00 handover happens once, in writing · every baby sleep happens in the cot, on the back · nobody drove or held the baby while sleepy · Monday's school run happens and the short-sleeper's nap happens before 15:00.

A rough night is not a failed rota — two blocks that actually happened are worth more than one perfect night.