I have a 3 month old DD. Not been a great sleeper from the start, would only sleep on me for ages, have now persuaded her into the sleepyhead at night time (still have to hold for daytime naps). She normally does a first four hour stretch of sleep pretty consistently, then wakes and I feed her. I can get her back down pretty easily but from then on she writhes, flails, shakes her head from side to side and grunts and groans near constantly, it looks like she is really uncomfortable and distressed, but appears to be asleep through this. Gradually this escalates and she wakes up. I've tried picking her up to wind her but doesn't seem to help. She is significantly calmer if I bring her into bed with me and cuddle her although still fidgets about too much for me to sleep.
She is swaddled for night time sleep. I tried not swaddling last night and it was worse, her arms were pistoning up and down furiously. She is very pukey and is on Aptimal Pepti (she's FF) and gaviscon but this doesn't seem to have made any difference to the puking. She is never distressed or uncomfortable from the puking, there is just a lot of it! The cot is tilted so she's not laying flat.
I can't sleep through the noise of her flailing about, so am not getting very much sleep at all, two or three broken hours a night. I can't nap in the day when she does as I have to hold her. I am struggling anyway, think I probably have PND and the lack of sleep is making things much worse. Anyone have any idea what the night time flailing is and how I can help? Although she seems asleep it can't be restful for her and I'm worried something is wrong.