should i use a swinging chair?

[moondolphin]

DS (4 months) is v restless from 5.30am. He'll sometimes go back to sleep for a spell but mostly wriggles around and makes a real racket grunting etc. DH and I are going mad as it means we can't sleep either. I've tried everything I can think of and am now wondering if we shouldn't just buy a swinging chair and put the baby in it around that time. I've heard they're great at putting babies to sleep. But it seems they are unpopular - why? And would it be wrong to try and shut the baby up like this? just to get a couple of extra hours sleep...

do you know how to practice safe co-sleeping?

yes. co-sleeping used to be the solution - I'd bring him into bed for the last few hours of the night if he couldn't settle in the cot. but since he has become more mobile he no longer relaxes and falls back to sleep when we bring him into the bed - instead he wriggles like crazy, pulls my hair, etc. and grunts like a grown man. that's why I thought maybe we could try a swinging chair, though having read into it a bit more since posting and it sounds like it isn;t safe unless you can keep an eye on the child (whereas I want to go back to sleep!)

Not a swinging chair but I leave ds in his bouncer while I nap. Soon as he starts moaning it wakes me up so once he's awake I normally am (except when I wake up and he's staring at me!)

Good idea about the swing, my ds is the same (and 4months too), been getting up at like 4.30 arg!!