He wants me to roll him over???????

[QueenVictoria]

The last 14/15 days or so my 6mth DS has been waking every hour or so from putting him down to sleep in the evening right through the night.

Often he has rolled on his front and he hates it, so i roll him onto his back and he goes back off to sleep. Sometimes he just cries and grumbles on his back and if rolled on to his side he settles straight back to sleep.

Its getting worse. We have tried leaving him to settle himself but unless he is rolled over he moans and grumbles into a full on cry and ends up waking himself right up to the point that he wont go back to sleep without feeding. (he is b/f so its a comfort thing i think).

Has anyone else had this?

Has anyone got any advice? He is my 2nd child and i didnt have this with my DD and she only ever went through phases that lasted 4 or 5 days not 2 weeks!

HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME! im soooooooooooo tired.

Have you tried a baby sleeping bag, this seemed to stop dd rolling over for a while?
I guess they have to learn to roll themselves back over eventually, but its not fun whilst they get the idea is it....

queen vic
sleeping bag is a great ides, my ds was very "movey" in the cot and i put him in one at the same age as yours.
it definietly helped.

He has been in a sleeping bag for months because he kicks the covers off etc.

In that case take sleeping bag off, could be the problem is he's not figured how to roll back over whilst in it!! try blankets again for a bit?

thanks anyway. Im pretty sure its not his teeth btw - he goes back to sleep easy if i intervene and medised and dentinox make no difference that i can see and they ought to hadnt they?

bump

tight swaddling?

Has absolutely hated being swaddled right from birth - he gets hysterical in fact. Thats the other reason why we started with the sleeping bag.

Aside from that he is a 20lb 6mth old and i dont think any amount of swaddling would keep in tucked in!

Take him out of his sleeping bag, cover him with a blanket and tuck him in tightly!! That definitly works.

Do you think that will stop him from occasionally being wrong way round too etc?

I dont know, it seems like he wants to change position because he is uncomfortable but he can roll a bit himself already. Oh i dont know. i dont get it.

Try the blanket tonight and see

Will try it tomorrow night definitely - my parents are babysitting this evening and i dont really want to leave them with the experiment tbh! (They always say "when you were little - if you cried we just brought you downstairs......"

But you never know - the scare of having the grandparents for a night might shock him into a proper deep sleeping pattern again!

Wrap him in the blanket or tuck it under the mattress?

Tuck him in, under the mattress, tightly

Err - i think i know what you mean there.......

Whatever you do he is going to have to learn to flip himself back. Ds(now 9months) did exactly the same thing and after about a week of going in and flipping him back, increasing number of times a night, I decided he had to learn how to flip back so we just left him the first night he woke every hour but in three days he learnt how to flip over, in a sleeping bag and out. Its brutal and some will say unkind but it worked! BTW he did exactly the same when he learnt how to sit from lying down, but by then he knew we weren't coming in so that was only one disturbed night, while he learnt how to get down again in his sleeping bag.

Thanks suss! gonna be brave and try your suggestion tonight too.

Well the blankets were a no go. BUT....

I left him to cry it out last night and after a while he went off to sleep on his own (although im sure half the reason he woke was because next door suddenly decided to play 2 Roy Orbison songs at full volume back to back at 8.30pm last night).

He didnt stir ONCE last night! And he didnt wake until 7am (including clocks going backwards).

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Will see what tonight brings but thanks everyone.