Eight-month-old will not stay still while sleeping

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Developmentally he is a bit behind, this is being investigated by the hospital to determine if there is a medical reason. He has just started rolling and is doing it all the time, including in the night. I understand practicing new skills is something babies do at night but we are into week 4 of between 4 and 6 wake ups per night because he has rolled and got stuck, arms through the cots bars etc. Im so tired my eyeballs hurt! Ds is grumpy and tired all day.
Every solution I can think of to help him stay put is considered “dangerous”, cot bumpers, sleep pods.
Any one else dealt with this?
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Bit confused why his arms are getting stuck in the cot? Is it unsafe?

He can only roll one way, he rolls up to the bars and his arm goes between and then can’t roll back to get it out.

Practice rolling bith ways with him on the floor, they tend to pick it up quite quickly. But this is normal (unfortunately) until they learn. Not sure why he wouls get stuck though?

its normal, limbs getting stuck is again normal in cots. Regarding cot bumpers and sleep pods, these are both dangerous, even “breathable” cot bumpers are allowed to be sold because they are breathable for an adult not a child!

unfortunately it’s a case of he will stop, but there’s no timeline, each baby is different

my 9 year old now is all over her bed when sleeping, sometimes sideways, sometimes feet on pillow.

Awww my little girl did this until she learned to roll over both ways, but even then she’d still get an arm or leg stuck in between the cot bars every now and then.
she’s 20 months now, so almost 2, and she still rolls around all night 🤣 just she doesn’t get stuck. I remember googling every possible thing and how safe it is but in reality there is nothing cot safe.

i just practiced with her to roll over both ways when she was awake and eventually she got it and that helped a lot.

you could try a travel cot as it’s not got the gaps between the cot bars. I’m not sure how good travel cots are for long-term night sleeps though.

my baby monitor recorded how she got stuck (for anyone wondering how a baby gets stuck between the cot bars) - she’d roll and land very close to the bars and an arm, leg or foot would poke through and she’d try to move and that limb would be stuck because she didn’t know how to pull it back, or the angle was wrong so she couldn’t bring her limb back in or she’d be too close to the cot bars and not have the room to move. I imagine it wasn’t too comfortable when she was lying up against the wooden bars so would wake up so I could move her 🤣

We never had this issue as we just had a double mattress on the floor as a floor bed, pulled away from the walls. Very occasionally they would roll far enough to fall out, but normally they just ended up sideways on the mattress somewhere and kept sleeping.

Travel cot with net sides?

Yes it’s quite common. Use a travel cot to stop the issues with the bars and put it next to your bed so you don’t have to get up to resettle.

On his tummy and the floor as much as possible in the day! He'll soon work out how to roll back.

We used a travel cot rather than a cot after learning this with our oldest and never had problems with our next 5

We got some mesh things from vinted that you could put between the bars as ds kept getting his legs stuck. Something like this.
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Bumpers are really unsafe and should never be used, whether mesh or padded. Entanglement is a big risk. I'm glad you got away with it for your DS, but please don't recommend them.

These are dangerous, they can be marked as breathable because they are breathable for adults. Babies cannot be used to test if a product is “breathable”

DS went through this stage when he learned to roll around 5/6 months - he learned to roll back to front first and would get upset because he couldn't roll back. Eventually he learned to sleep on his tummy and our nights got much better after that.

I kept him in his next to me which had mesh sides and only moved him into his cot in his own room around 7 months when he stopped waking so much.

It's all just a phase - we've just come through a tough few months of him waking three times a night cutting his canines, we've had a blissful few weeks of him sleeping through and now he's waking at 3am every night with a heavy cold needing a dose of calpol to settle.

Not quite true

Is he a Rottweiler

My friend works for the lullaby trust, she has advised they cannot test breathability of products on babies. If it passes for an adult it’s able to be sold.

There is no risk of entanglement they're pulled so tightly and can't undo them.

The holes are definitely big enough in the ones we had to breathe, no different to the next to me sides!

Have you considered a travel cot his arms won't get stuck in that

Yes it is normal.

And then one day they learn how to roll back and you realise that they don't wake you and you didn't realise when it was the last time you ever would do it.

And then you get all sentimental about how they are growing up and you feel sad, and then you realise they can climb out of their cot and you feel like you can't cope with it all over again

Rinse and repeat for the rest of their lifetime 😂

One of mine used to spin around like a windmill at night. Even once in a bed and up to the age of about 8 or 9 we'd find her on the floor, wrong way up etc. She seems to have grown out of it, went on holiday this summer and shared a room with her and she slept like she was in a coffin....quite disconcerting.

Curious on how they test travel cots then? They're usually mesh or net sides and I've never heard them being called unsafe?

I understand the entanglement risk with cot bumpers, but not the breathability.

It's also considered unsafe to have babies under two sleep on adult mattresses.

I asked for you!

independent laboratories use specialised gauges and airflow fans.

none of the labs with these equipment will test bumpers due to too many risk factors involved with them

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