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Kicking Frenzy - HELP

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Pjay · 03/10/2002 11:05

This might sound like a strange problem but i am slowly being driven mad by my 18 wk ds and need to get this off my chest to see if anyone has ever experienced this.
Ds has been sleeping right through since about 12 wks and has been great. Sleep at about 7 - 7:30pm, waking about 6-7am. It was heaven
Suddenly he has decided every night about 4am to start picking up his legs and slamming them back down on the mattress. The noise is deafening at that time of the morning and it frightens me that one night he will hurt his legs, not to mention the sleep we're all losing because he wakes himself as well as us up.
I can't imagine why he's doing it and what to do about it. I am completely stumped. He does like to kick his feet a lot, but doesn't do it like this when he naps in the day.
Has anyone got any ideas so we can go back to getting a good nights sleep?

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Bozza · 03/10/2002 15:00

Pjay I'm not sure I can really help but my DS who is 19 months and sleeps on this front does this. He bends it to a right angle at the knee and slams it down. I wouldn't have thought it would hurt your DS. We have never solved the problem and can hear it from our room although I don't think it would wake us if we hav been woken (usually because DS and his covers have parted company) it can be hard to get back off. And sharing a room on holiday recently it was a nightmare. Comes and goes a bit though.

Bozza · 03/10/2002 15:00

Pjay I'm not sure I can really help but my DS who is 19 months and sleeps on this front does this. He bends it to a right angle at the knee and slams it down. I wouldn't have thought it would hurt your DS. We have never solved the problem and can hear it from our room although I don't think it would wake us if we hav been woken (usually because DS and his covers have parted company) it can be hard to get back off. And sharing a room on holiday recently it was a nightmare. Comes and goes a bit though.

SoupDragon · 03/10/2002 15:14

Might a baby sleeping bag stop this?

Just a thought.

Girly · 03/10/2002 15:17

pjay, my ds does this aswell, it is very noisy! we have managed to stop him doing this my putting him in a sleeping bag and then tucking a lightweight sheet over the top (in feet to foot pos) and then tucking 2 small towels down the sides of the sheet (inbetween the cot bars) to keep evberything in place, this usually works and he is a very determined little boy! HTH

slug · 03/10/2002 21:41

The sluglet used to do that. It stopped about the same time as she started crawling. Nowadays she crawls in her sleep instead. You just can't win.

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Pjay · 03/10/2002 22:01

I have thought about a sleeping bag but he really hates covers of any sort. Winter is going to be a nightmare because even though i tuck his blankets around him and down the side of the cot he still kicks until they have all come off, I think the kicking problem is not helped by this fact. I guess i will be willing to try the sleeping bag though i thought they had to be a certain age to use them?

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calcium · 03/10/2002 22:08

my dd does this also and as she is a bad sleeper it just adds to the amount of time she wakes during the night. I got her a sleeping bag and is does make a difference as she won't wake from being cold but it hasn't stopped her doing the slamming thing. I don't think your ds will hurt himself so don't worry about that. Does he have wind? My dd seems to do it more if she is very windy. All I can think of is to put him in another room this will stop you waking so much.

ionesmum · 03/10/2002 22:19

Pjay, sleeping bags can be used from when your baby weighs 10 lbs. My baby took a while to get used to hers but now loves it, until recently it stopped her rolling over. If you really can't get your ds to like a cover, my hv recommended those soft fleece dungarees worn over a sleepsuit as an alternative for cold nights.

Slug - my dd is crawling in her sleep, too, she wakes herself up and then can't roll onto her back, and she screams until I come and cuddle her back to sleep. This happens three or foutr times a night and at her day naps. AAARGH!!!

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Pjay · 03/10/2002 22:42

Thanks ionesmum for the tip about soft fleece dungarees if i can't get him to like a cover. I am going to try to get a sleeping bag and hopefully that will help (at least it might soften the noise of him slamming against the mattress) I just don't want him to get really upset about having something covering him that is not so easy to kick off. Oh well i can only give it a try!

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Crunchie · 04/10/2002 10:56

The great thing about the sleeping bags is that they can still kick around inside the bag, but they don't get cold. My dd loves hers and has even figured walking in it! She looks exactly like Maggie from The Simpsons

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