9 week old restless sleep?

[Lyndso11]

Hi guys looking for some help advice. 9 week old has become extremely restless at night. I usually bf her to sleep then place her on the bed next to me then sleep alongside her following sage guidelines. Recently thus has become practically impossible as she's so wriggly! I'm pretty sure she's asleep but she's constantly wailing her arms and kicking her legs about and in the last week she has discovered her fingers and constantly trying to put them in her mouth. Sometimes I can get her to settle fully with a dummy but she usually drops it's and then wakes up and thr whole cycle starts again. She's not hungry so I dotn really want to get into the habit of boobing her all night, she doesn't really cry but sometimes moans until I either give her the dummy or she finds her fingers.

She also settled much better on her side rather than her back so often she is in thus position with a ewan dream sheep propping her up to stop her going onto her front. I'd like to get her in the next to me but at the moment I'm so worried she get jnto a dangerous position I'm basically up every hour to check her or she's waking me by grunting and moaning and kicking about.

Is this phase? Will it settle? It's driving me nuts!

It's around this time their digestive system changes a little so she might be a bit uncomfortable with her tummy for a week or two. Do you wind her? I would also suggest Googling tummy massages for baby, they helped mine a lot. As for the hands in the mouth - would drive me insane! Just need to ride that one out. I always put socks on my DC hands to stop them getting distracted by them (just need to make sure they can't pull them off with their mouth). Can you let DC fall asleep on her side and then gently roll her onto her back when she's in a deep sleep?

As with everything to do with babies, it's always a phase!

Thanks Mamabear, yes she has had quite bad trapped wind for the last couple of weeks now but last night it seemed different, she didn't seem painful more frustrated! She's on colief atm which seems to be helping her wind a great deal which I'm grateful for but now this bloomin hand thing seems to have taken over! I guess there will always be something preventing sleep!

I usually roll her onto her back when she's sleeping, is there a way to tell she is in deep sleep?

My only advice is if you don't wake her up when you roll her then she is in a deep sleep! Sounds like you are doing all the right things. I'm still learning as a parent even with my almost 4 year old. Just try something and if it doesn't work then try something else and trust your instincts, no one knows your baby as well as you do!

It sounds like a sleep cycle phase called "active sleep". I've seen the takingcarababies insta account talking about this a lot if you want a reference point. It is just how babies sleep honestly.