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Hi Ladies, am hoping for some reassurance I guess?
My 15 week old has been thrashing her lil head from side to side when she goes to bed.
Sometimes when she is still asleep she just shakes her head side to side, sometimes really violently! And a few times while she is still awake trying to go to sleep.
It is obviously not hurting her as she doesn't cry out or anything.
Is this common?
Has anyone else's bubs done the same thing?
Thanking you in advance!
Haven't seen anything like it in my kids. Does she maybe have a bit of an ear infection, or even just a build up of wax? Not enough that it is causing her pain, just enough that when she is dozing off and lying down there is pressure on her head in a way to irritate it? Maybe worth taking her to the GP for a check up if nobody comes in and says its normal!
Sorry. Can't think of anything else.
My DS does this, I have always thought is his last ditch attempt to avoid going to sleep, is like he is drifting off but thinks he can fight it with the bashing/writhing head thing. He does it and normally it precedes sleep. He is nearly seven months but has been doing it for ages maybe a similar age to your little one.
DD used to do this. I thought with her maybe it was because she didn't like to be wrapped, as she was always struggling to get out of it, even in her sleep. After I stopped wrapping her, she slowly stopped doing the head thing. It became only when I first put her down kind of like a getting comfy thing.
I only see her doing it very rarely now, and still when I only just put her down while she's getting comfy. It certainly doesn't seem to have done her any harm :)
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I am pretty sure DD did it too, neither of mine were wrapped, I just put it down to their brain switching off and succumbing to sleep or if while sleeping moving through a sleep cycle. I have years of experience of watching my Dad fall to sleep in front of TV and doing it my self and have noticed that often to jerky movements like the head thrashing when you are drifting off but don't really want to/haven't given in to it yet.
Ds2 did this - it was his way of settling himself. He grew out of it eventually. I asked paed about it and was of no concern
Thanks girls :)
I might give her wee lil ears a clean tomorrow to rule out a wax build up - thanks LuluHB
Kaytee - I don't wrap my lil bubs, haven't since she was about 5 weeks old! darn tyke could get out of EVERYTHING! so, seeing as she fell asleep unwrapped, I just left it that way...but you could be right! Might just be her getting comfy...
wy - she does seem to just fall asleep or stay asleep after she does it. So yeah, maybe it is her fighting it!
Thanks girls, appreciate yr answers xx
My DD has done this when she was really little. Not sure why, but yeah - side to side over and over and over again.
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Thanks MamaPan!
My oldest never did this, so when Miss Z started I was like *what the heck*
She really does go at it so frantically! Good to know a paed says it is nothing to worry about
Dontcha just love how kids keep us on our toes?:
Darn brats hehe
DD did a lot of this around the 8 week period. It seems to have slowed down but she still does it.
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