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3 month old grasping Moses basket lining at night

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DitaVonCreamTeas · 22/06/2014 14:05

DS is 3 months old and sleeps in a Moses basket at the foot of our bed. We're lucky that he's a 'good' sleeper and will sleep a solid 4-5 hours between FF feeds; roughly 11pm, 4am, 8am. Until now that is.

Much to DS's excitement he's just discovered that his hands are attached to his body and that he can make them touch and hold things. During the day he likes to keep one hand firmly gripped to his dribble bib (or our clothes) while the other hand goes exploring. But at night in his sleep he'll stretch his arms out and repeatedly grasp at the fabric lining of his Moses basket, which he does so frantically that he wakes himself up and cries. DH or I then insert dummy to mouth (his not ours) which instantly calms him down so he goes to sleep, then the whole grabby, crying, dummy cycle repeats again. DS is worse between the 4am-8am. During the day he usually naps in his bouncy chair and apart from the odd flail is peaceful.

Anyone else experienced this? Is he getting to big for the Moses basket? Is it a developmental stage thing? Or is DS trying a Mini Houdini escape plan every night?

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306235388 · 22/06/2014 16:07

I'd try him in a cot

beccajoh · 22/06/2014 16:13

I would try the cot too. Their hands grab onto anything they come into contact with at that age, and it could be he's trying to sleep like a starfish, but thwarted by the MB. Both mine have been in cots by three months for this reason.

Inthedarkaboutfashion · 22/06/2014 16:17

Mine outgrew the Moses baskets by 6 weeks old. There isn't any room for babies to stretch and move.

purplemurple1 · 22/06/2014 19:32

Same as everyone else once this started we moved ds to a cot, once that got to small we moved him to a travel cot.

strawberrypenguin · 22/06/2014 19:34

Yep, he sounds to big for the Moses basket. I agree with everyone else time to try the cot.

DitaVonCreamTeas · 23/06/2014 03:50

Thanks everyone Smile, we'll move him to his cot bed tomorrow.

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