She is 8m and can't quite crawl yet but is astonishingly active once she is asleep!! Tbf in daytime she is also quite a wriggler, rolling everywhere, always wanting to try to stand etc... But at nighttime she becomes positively acrobatic: doing a kind of plank exercise, squirming up the cot until she is horizontal at the top of it or even upside down...
It wakes me because I hear all the shuffling... I know I should turn down the volume on monitor, or even ditch the monitor, but I haven't yet because at the moment it means I can hurry in as soon as I hear her and soothe her out of her half-wake or put her back Into a comfy position and she is asleep five seconds later. I fear that if I didn't hear her she would just shuffle until she properly wakes up and then I will have a wide awake baby on my hands.
But of course I am waking four or five times a night and am exhausted.
I am going to try turning down the volume but is there anything I can do re the shuffling?!
I give her as much 'exercise' in the day as time allows: but after feeding, naps, out to the shops etc, there is only about half an hour twice a day when we can play energetically.
I stopped putting her in sleep bag as she was getting all tangled; might it help to try a bag again?
Might she grow out of it when she can crawl or move more? Ie is she trying it out in her sleep?! It has really got much worse since she learned to roll and started sleeping on her front. I can't let her self settle when I first put her to bed anymore (and we were doing so well at self settling a couple of months ago) as the moment I put her down she is up on all fours trying to shuffle forwards, no matter how sleepy she has been beforehand. It is as if being on her tummy makes her think it is time to move... So these days I either have to put her down asleep or I have to stay there leaning over the cot trying to restrain her (gently of course!) until she finally wears herself out and falls asleep.
Has anyone else experienced this? Constant night waking due to wriggling ??