very wriggly 5mo waking herself up - any tips?

[93pjb]

My DD will be 5mo next week. She used to sleep fairly well, in bed at 8.30, up at 8.30 with a dream feed at 11, big feed at 3am and a snack at 6am.

She used to sleep on her back but for the last 6 weeks hasn't been able to sleep except on her front.

The problem is she learned to roll over 3 weeks ago and we've had hardly any sleep since. She always used to wriggle around a bit when she was settling down to sleep, now she rolls over and wakes herself up.

It is taking ages to settle her down at night and after her 3am feed she wakes every hour like this. She is still getting thhe same feeds (bf) and will settle with patting the other times. But I am starting to dream about some sort of baby straitjacket...

our dd uses a grobag it slowed down her manic i can ran roll woo hoo bang theres the cotside phase!

She is in a grobag but it doesn't seem to stop her much. It is very big on her so in my more desperate moments I'm tempted to tuck the excess under the matress to hold her still

have done that and it helps until they figure it out they do settle hun

Shush as you pat cos then hopefully she will accept only shushing eventually. This wont help the other problem but wil be less annoying for you.
Have you tried a bumper so she wont bump into the cot but something soft that might not wake her????

Both mine esp dd2 used to cram themselves right to the top of the cot, it looked so uncomfy but didn't seem to bother them. I would also imagine she'll learn eventually and not do it, tho you may need the patience of a saint

Thanks for the suggestions - the shush/patting seems to be helping a lot in settling her quickly. The other thing that I think has made a difference is lying her on a towel and rolling the ends up so she has a roll of towel on either side. She still crawls out of it and then rolls over but needs to be a lot more awake to do that and it seems to stop her continually rolling over which is a huge relief.

The towel could be a good suggestion. My dd is almost 4 months and from being a 7pm til 4am solid sleeper (bottle fed...) now wakes up turning over and wriggling up the cot from midnight onwards. Now we bring her into our bed and put her between us so she can't go anywhere (bad parents). But that does mean a midnight-2am wriggle marathon.

Grobags made no difference. Someone has suggested some kind of sausage style pillows to butt up around her??

I've seen a sleep positioner here which I was thinking of getting but thought I'd try with towels first to see if it made a difference. Seems to be doing the job(fingers crossed) so I'll probably save my pennies.

PS I'm no expert but I don't know a single parent who doesn't take their baby into their bed from time to time.

My 5.5mo did this when she started rolling a while back. Also crammed herself into the corner of the cot. She still sleeps snogging the edge of the cot but is a lot more settled now. Think you just have to weather it. She'll get used to being so mobile it'll stop being such a novelty in the small hours.

I put blanket over my squiggly dd so she is tucked up tight then use rolled up towels in between mattress and side of the cot (but over the blanket) to keep it in place. She started moving to her side then falling asleep there. Now if I put her down on her side she stays there. Is this the same as what you've been trying?

Also if she always rolls one way you could try edging her up to the side of the cot so that she can't roll?

I'm sure it's a phase that will pass (perhaps to be replaced with standing up in the cot, but that's a whole nother show!)

I swaddled ds for similar reasons, but did this from much earlier. Not sure it would work now? (ds is 9 so I'm remembering back through the mists of time!)