HELP - SWADDLE!!!!!

[MeMes]

Hi there

My 6 week old is a really (really, really, reallllllly) active sleeper. She wriggles, kicks and jerks all the time. She will only settle to sleep if she is swaddled, obviously her reflexive baby movements are distressing/disturbing her. My problem is that she is such a wriggler that she works her way out of her swaddle, and then wakes herself up! I'll settle her down for bed, then within a few hours she's wriggled free and is howling to be re-swaddled. It's really disturbing the poor mite's sleep.

Tried a sleeping bag - she didn't sleep for almost 2 days solid!

Am using a 'miracle blanket' swaddle blanket. My questions is: Are there any more secure makes of swaddle blanket available, or is the old fashioned way worth a try? Also any other tips

Any tips before tonight would be MUCH appriciated!!

HELP US!!

Thanks for coming back MeMes

Good to hear you come back Memes and sorry to hear that your HV is rubbish.

Has anyone got a decent HV??!

Nope. Mine managed to refer DS to the mental health team not me when I tested positive for PND. Cue lots of confused conversations with the primary care trust about how my three month old could be depressed... They still haven't really worked it out!

A depressed three month old?! Some common sense wouldn't go amiss.

Suchanamateur, that is nuts.

My HV thought DS was a girl despite having weighed him with no clothes on. No wonder she couldn't find the previous weights on the charts.

When I asked for help in getting 6 week old DS to sleep, another HV told me to feed him to sleep. Much better than all the 'just let him cry' advice I had from the other HVs - except that my first question to her had been how to handle the fact that he was refusing to feed.

wow, the training progs for HVs must be great..

LOL at Angeldog's HV thinking her DS was a girl. My favourite HCP moment to date (although not at the time) was about 2am on my first night in hospital when a midwife actually shouted at me for having DS sleeping on my chest (I wasn't asleep). She told me that it was a bad habit and I should put him down in the hospital cot awake and let him settle himself to sleep. He was all of 22 hours old...

I had the same type of thing. Finally got just got to sleep, with the baby in the crook of my arm, and they came in and asked if she'd fed in the last 2 hours. When I said, no, they told me to feed her! This was at 3am... when we needed to sleep! Needless to say I told them to leave us to it, thank you very much. She woke up an hour later hungry anyway! Meddlesome types...

hugs!!we used a pekemoe sleeper (google it) as it was time to wean and it worked IMMEDIATLY!! freaky really goodluck!

Hi guys,
I'm a very new mum (exactly 3 weeks ago I was in full on labour -happy memories!!) to a beautiful boy. I tried swaddling for the first time a couple of days ago on the advice of Dr Harvey Karp in Baby bliss and it worked brilliantly, he went calm and quiet and slept for 5 hours with only a brief wake up for food, best sleep I've had so far.
My question is, as its quite a thin swaddling cloth, do I need a blanket as well? my boyfriend put one on but I'm concerned he'll get too hot, I checked the back of his neck and he seemed ok but I'm too new at this not to worry. My bedroom is quite cool, around 19/20. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks :)

Hi Helethan

My baby is about 3 months now and her bedroom is 19-21 degrees according to the thermometer. I dress her in a baby grow without a vest and swaddle her in a thin terry like sheet, I then tuck her in with one layer of cellular blanket. If the room is any cooler, or if I feel chilly myself, I pop a vest on her. She always seems fine. I used to worry about over heating with my first more than anything else, so don't feel daft! Enjoy your baby x

check out the uber swaddle (google it) it's just a way of swaddling with two blankets.. worked well for us, then a miracle blanket then a pekemoe sleeper. good luck!