Hello wise MNers - please help me set aside my insane sleep-deprivation induced anxiety about flat headedness.
My DD is 13 weeks. She's a super alert baby who is a ruddy awful sleeper. I'm just doing whatever it takes for me and her to get any sleep. In the day, that means sleeping in the sling - she'll get about 3 hrs a day like that. Occasionally on really bad days she'll let me take her back to bed with me for a 1-2 hr nap. She hates prams, buggies and car seats so is only ever in the sling.
At night she spends a few hours in a cot, then comes into bed with us say 11-7. Now, in the cot she's on her back, usually with head tilted to the left. In bed, she always always sleeps on the left side of her head (i feed to sleep, she suckles most of the night, and will only feed off that side so I cant swop - tho I've tried...). An osteo has been telling me i need to try to move her head when shes in a deep sleep so she doesnt get a flat head on one side :( it's impossible - she is such a light sleeper that it wakes her up, and when she's in a deep sleep at night, so am I. I am getting about 3 hrs sleep a night atm, all broken up, due to her grunting and noisiness and my SPD. So I really dont want to do anything that risks waking her and me getting even less sleep.
My feeling is, since she isnt in a pram/cot all day like most babies, but in a sling, she's only spending 10 hrs or so in that position. Tho on rare days it's more, if we take a daytime nap together. Do you guys think that still poses a risk of flat headedness? And if so, would you worry about it, or just get some sleep now and hope it works itself out as she grows and gets more head control and doesnt need constant nightfeeding?
Sorry for the tome. Too tired to be more concise :( sorry.