I am having the same problem with my DD except she is 1. If I don't rap her she stays awake, fidgeting and playing with her hands. As soon as I wrap her she asleep, but when she wakes again during the night she spend her time trying to get oout of the wrap. Will look into the wombie thing. Good suggestion!
Beautitude- Thanks! I looked at the woombie and i think its much the same as the wrap me up that some of the other girls suggested. Im thinking of getting one but now im confused what size to get! My girl is 5.3kgs, shld i just get the medium sized one do u think from 6.5kgs to 9kgs? Will it matter if its a little big on her?? And also do they really stretch enough so that the baby can get their hands to their mouth? None of the pictures on the website have the babies with their hands up near their face! I just realised that u never said that u have actually used one! Have u?? If u havent dont worry bout trying to answer my questions!
Taurean- My dd is 11 weeks so yeah roughly the same age that ur dd started getting out of her wrap. I checked out the love me baby swaddle, and they look great except im not even sure she wld like sleeping with her arms up by her head since we have only been wrapping her with them down by her side.. it might not be the 'natural position' for her anymore! I dont know!! Altho i just had another look at the website and u might be able to swaddle the baby with their hands by their side still and it just gives them the room to move their arms up by their head if they choose too...and gnaw at their hands!
LMS- I wldnt feel so nervous sleeping her on her tummy during the night if i cld hear her breathing but i cant! Even wen i have my ear right near her head! Thinking of maybe getting a sound and movement monitor, that wld ease my mind a bit. I think if i tried flipping her over from her tummy to her back she wld wake up way too much.. plus shes not used to being 'free' cos i always swaddle her when shes on her back. Thankyou, its good to know other ppl go against 'the rules' and sleep their babies on their tummies too without any dramas
Human bean- Ok so it must be normal for a baby to start wanting to move around more at this age?? Im thinking an actual swaddle (not just a wrap) shld do the trick then. Ive had 3 sleepless nights in a row now so i cld handle a few more whilst shes adjusting to her new swaddle i think, thanks! Oh once the baby starts rolling they cant roll over in the swaddle can they?? That wld be awful!
Kuraiza- Yeah i definitely think its grunting from pooing or farting to start with a lot of the time.. but once she has finished doing that she is so awake that she fights and struggles to get the wrap off her, she normally succeeds but then cant get back to sleep cos shes too busy playing with her hands which makes her start grizzling cos shes tired or she decides shes hungry even if i just fed her an hour before. I reckon if she cld only poo/fart without waking up a lot of my problem wld be solved! I cant wait til she can!
Ellasmummy- ok u must be a way better wrapper then me! If i try and wrap her loosely she can get her hands straight out! I already leave her wrapped really loosely from the legs down cos i like her being able to kick if she has wind or something. I reckon one of these wrap me ups or woombie is the go! (especially for ppl like me that cant wrap real well!)
Mylitta- Ok so now ur just making me think that maybe i shld just bite the bullet and sleep dd on her tummy for her night sleep as well. I started looking into a sound and movement monitor today but just wondering if it works even if baby is on its tummy or are they designed just for back sleepers? Sorry im not sure how they work! Ideally that wld be great if it wld work cos she definitely sleeps a lot better and longer on her tum tum.... mummy doesnt wen she is tho!! It also makes more sense if i eventually have to start patting her to sleep in her cot (atm im rocking the bassinet) it wld feel a lot better patting her back and not her chest!
And yeah i cant believe how often they have changed 'the rules'. My mum and i were just talking about that today.. i didnt realise that at one stage it was recommended to sleep babies on there sides though! My mum was saying that i shld just start sleeping her on her tummy permanently cos she did that with me and my sisters and nothing happened, except they know so much more then 30 yrs ago, i feel stupid to go against all the research they have done and do it!! Any info on the breathing alarm you have wld be muchly appreciated!! Thanks!
Delphmoon- Great that u have gotten to 1 before you have had this drama! Obviously its not something that is just going to go away with my dd then. Some babies are just too fascinated by their hands! Yeah check out the woombie!
Thanks again girls for all ur suggestions.
Last night was another shocker! Dd woke up at 1.30am, i fed her, wrapped her back up, she spent the next half hour awake and trying to unwrap herself and get to her hands, so i took her out of bassinet, fed her again to try and settle her, ended up letting her go to sleep on me whilst i was still sitting up, i stayed like this til 3.30, drifting in and out of sleep, i then put her next to me on her tummy and proceeded to keep checking on her every few mins until 6am when dh got up to go to work! So ridiculous! Need to do something to fix the problem now!!
Ive got 3 options.. 1- a woombie or wrap me up. 2- buy a breathing monitor so dd can sleep on her tummy without me worrying. 3- just let her get used to having her hands out and stop wrapping her completely. Im not sure if no. 3 will work though.
Thinking i might try the swaddle first since its a lot cheaper then buying the monitor. What do u guys think??
Gosh before i had DD i never wld have thought this kind of problem wld arise! Theres just so many little 'problems' u can come across with them! In a couple of months i reckon ill be doing a thread on what to do when my baby is too big for her bassinet but she needs to be rocked to go to sleep and i cant do that with her cot! Im dreading it already! (also not wanting to make any changes now though so the problem doesnt arise in the future haha)
How odd. I'm getting some decent blocks of sleep at last and now you're the bleary eyed tired mummy. I definitely feel your pain! We had the swaddle fighting issue almost immediately after bringing DS home. I ended up abandoning the wrap as I was spending half tge night wrapping and re wrapping DS. Turns out my little buddy likes to sleep on his side. I have an anti-roll device, basically a piece of fabric with a triangular wedge pillow on each end. I love it because he's in a comfy spot, and I know he can't roll onto his tum and get stuck. I highly reccomend trying one out. I got it at big W.
Could you sleep with her in your sling? Not ideal but I mastered that little trick in more desperate times. Let me know how you go!
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