3 month old good sleeper suddenly gone wrong - Help!

[BritishBeef]

My DS is 3 months old and after a difficult start (has reflux) has been sleeping really well the past 7 weeks. Here's how his day/night went up until a few nights ago.

*Up at 7am - feed
*approx 8am nap for 2 hours
*10am - feed
*approx 11.30 nap for 2 hours
*1.30pm feed
*2-3pm nap for 1- 1 1/2 hours
*5pm feed
*6.20pm bath
*6.45pm feed
*7pm bed
*10pm dream feed
*anytime between 4.30am-6am feed

For the last few nights however, he has been waking every 2 hours during the night. He is swaddled and every time he's woken up, he's managed to get his arms out of the swaddle. It means that he has been awake for large portions of the night the past few nights.

Is this his way of saying that he doesn't want to be swaddled anymore?

A couple of times we tried him in his sleeping bag last night but he immeadiately pulls his dummy out and rubbing his face/eyes and won't settle. We have also tried swaddling him with just one arm free but the same problem.

If he's swaddled he goes off to sleep within minutes (on his own too and will settle himself back off to sleep but now he's getting his arms out he can't settle himself.

Any advice on how to deal with this. It's really bad timing as we are spending Christmas night at parents and could do without a sleepless night!

I think you can get something called a Miracle Blanket which is an unescapable swaddle. But I've never used it so can't help much more than that!

That's the swaddle we are using! He's being a Houdini!

Hi Britishbeef

No solution I'm afraid but I'm very interested in any advice you get here as we have the same problem with my 4mo DS1, who's in the miracle swaddle also.

His sleeping has deteriorated in last few weeks, and we're also struggling with how to manage moving from swaddling to grobag or blankets...

Does anyone else have any advice on moving from a swaddle to a grobag?

I used to swaddle and as she started moving more stopped and switched to gro-bag....

The swaddling is great for new borns and very young but once they discover they have their arms and can move them they want to move them its a new exciting skill I also found teething started at this stage which made things worse....

I found my DD slept better in the grobag in her cot her moses basket she kept waking up when she was touching the sides..

She is now 6.5months old and does 360 circles in her cot...I also only use grobags at night and blankets and sheets for daytime naps...

However DD has got bad sleep pattern again at the moment (teething i think )

HTH

We've been having exactly the same problem with our 13 week old DS - he's an okay sleeper, but his saving grace has always been that he stays asleep in the evenings, from 7pm, with a dreamfeed at 10.30pm until around 2-3am (things deteriorate rapidly after that ;) but this last week he's been waking up in the evenings, and every hour to 2 hours all night - it's a horrible shock

We use a Grobag rather than swaddling and he seems to be rubbing and scratching at his face when he wakes. Sometimes I can get him back to sleep in his cot, but mostly I have to bring him into bed with me to get him to sleep (as a human swaddle - I pin his arms down so they don't flail around and it usually sends him off).

I'm wondering if it's his teeth, as he's started to drool a lot this last week, has a red cheek and bites down hard on anything in his mouth?

I'm just hoping it will pass - I can't imagine how I'll cope going back to work if he's still sleeping this badly!

Hi everyone - I don't know if this will help, but ds was a perfect sleeper from newborn, then around 3 mo he started waking more and more. This endless waking went on until he turned 6 months, when he went into his own room, I put him in a grobag and he got his two bottom teeth through. Not sure what helped him the most, but now at 7 months he goes to bed at 6pm and sleeps right through til half 6 or 7 in the morning. It is bliss !!! So hang on in there, it sounds like it could be the teeth....

Drool is defo teething drjane my DD still has some bad nights and she has her bottom teeth... have you tried calpol on particularly bad nights? Or teething powders? Also there is a growth spurt around 13-15 weeks so it might pass

I think he might have something going on as he is now going off of his milk, we took him to the docs yesterday as he is only taking 2-3 oz per feed, he was previously taking 6-7!!! up again last night every few hours but definately not hungry, then only took 5 oz this morning when his last feed was 11pm last night!! I really think that he needs to move to a gro bag but not sure how i'm going to do it as he can't fall asleep when he's whacking himself in the face!!!
LyndaG - how did you make the transition? I have considered putting him in the gro bag with his arms inside, I read on another thread that someone also swaddled inside the bag!?