transition into grobag and own room not going well for 14 week old DS

[kittypower]

DS is 14 weeks and we thought we would try him in his own room as he is quite a noisy sleeper so might mean we all get some better sleep. Last week we tried him in his grobag in his moses basket in our room and he woke himself up about every few hours, I think by moving his arms around and touching the sides. When he is swaddled he has done some pretty good nights sleep in the moses basket. Last night he had his big evening feed and we put him in his own room in his grobag in his cot - it didn't go well at all, he just woke up all night on and off. What should i do now do you think? He can't stay swaddled in the moses basket for ever!!! Actually for not much longer as he is very long and is going to be too big for it soon. Sooooo tired today!

How long are your 14 week old sleeping as we seem to be the only one in our antenatal group who isn't going 7-7
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hiya

hopefully itll just take him a few nights to get used to sleeping on his own... personally think youre doing the right thing in terms of you all getting more sleep. that or get him in with you but thats not for everyone!

what do you do when he wakes? can you avoid picking him up but just go in, soothe, whisper goodnight and leave again? if you do that about a million a hundred times the first night, it will half as many the next, then half again the next, till he is settled for the most part within about 5 days.

thats the theory anyway. it worked for my ds1. not so much for ds2, which makes me think temperament has a mite to do with it.

whatever you do, good luck.

you can swaddle him in his cot if he's getting too big for the moses basket.

Hi - I think you are doing all the right things. It will just take time for him to get used to it. Do the same tonight and see how you get on.

PS - try not to listen to what others tell you about their kids sleeping through....IME it is usually not always the case!!! xx

well at my mum and baby group it was 50-50 whether babies were sleeping through at that stage so there might be some massaging of the truth going on at yours.

You're doing fine, just expect it to take a few days for both of you to get used to the new arrangement. And somebody posted this link on a thread today or yesterday which I thought was very interesting. Your DS is probably just learning something new

Swaddle him in his cot. I swaddled ds until he was 9 months old.

Your lo also needs time to adjust to the change.

Also, is you lo warm enough?

you might find that it only seems like all the babies are sleeping through cos it is only the ones that are sleeping through that are mentioning it and the mums of the non-sleeping babies are keeping schtum!

We had several attempts to get DS to sleep without swaddling but gave up after frequent night-wakings. We have tried again now at 21 weeks and he is sleeping better, sometimes sleeping through. We still swaddle his arms for naps and when he wakes in the night sometimes, using a sheet over his grobag. We moved him to his own room at 17 weeks.