Is this a good plan?

[Klinda]

3mo DD s not a very good sleeper and fear I am not helping so I have come up with a new plan/tactic and wanted to run it past MN to see if y'all think it is a good plan or needs some tweaks. I am so tired it is hard for my brain to compute good decisions!

So bit of background. DD suffers with trapped wind which wakes her if I don't wind her properly, we use infacol but wind is still a prob. She is fine to go 3 hours between feeds in the day and has done a few 4 or 5 hour stints at night but of late it is more like every 1-2 hours and it is getting me down. Basically I keep falling asleep while feeding her so I don't burp her and then I wake after an hour or so put her in her basket and then half an hour later she wakes and it starts all over again.

My plan is to try and move her into her own room and into the cot and see if this means that because I have to actually get out of bed I'll be able to wind and settle her properly. My concerns are that it s quite a lot of change at once and also that she is very keen on cuddles so being on her own will make her even less settled rather than more...

Any thoughts? THT! :)

Having been the past owner of a perpetually windy baby you have my sympathy. He was banished moved to his own room (other side of a thin a wall, not in the West Wing or anything) at around that age and was absolutely fine. The main problems seemed to be straight after the evening feed. It would take anything up to half an hour to de-wind the poor thing. I don't know that he slept any better but, because I was not being woken up by every squeak and snuffle, I certainly did. Give it a whirl.

when you pick her up to wind her do you talk to her? cuddle her? at night I strictly do not talk to my DD, I keep lights down as low as possible on the light switch and make as little eye contact as possible - hoping that the message is " go back to sleep" and this seems to be the case or I am just lucky. I only pick her up if I HAVE too to wind her and again it is under minimum communications and in twilight conditions

Yup I do the whole not talking dim lights thing. She s fairly up for going back to sleep but sometimes those pesky burps just won't come out and it turns into a bit of a kerfuffle which does wake her.

Te he he, just realised on original post I got my acronyms mixed...meant to say TIA!!!

So DD did not think it was a good plan and although she did go to sleep in her cot she decided to wake every 45 mins and then need at least 45 mins to resttle.....this didn't seem like a good bargain to me so by 3.30am we were back in my bed snoozing and snacking.

Is it just too early? or should I persevere with my plan in the hope she gets used to it?

It is still very early to worry about routines or patterns. You might try feeding her more often in the day so that she needs less at night (though this never worked for either of mine who ate every two hours around the clock for seven months). Are you positive it's wind that's bothering her? By this stage they're usually getting pretty adept at bringing up their wind themselves. Unless she's visibly drawing her legs up/wriggling in discomfort then it might be worth considering other possible causes.

I'd give it another go. I never sleep well in hotel rooms the first couple of nights. Takes time to get used to a new environment.

Octavia - She does seem to writhe around alot which is why I thought wind and if it isn't then not sure what the prob could be? I know it is early for routines but I also have 2 sons so I really need my evenings to drink wine recover!

Cogito Think i'll give it another night or two and see how we go....can't really be much worse!