Will sleeping in her car seat all night destroy DD's spine?

[Anglepoise]

For the three nights before last night, DD (five weeks) seemed utterly incapable of sleeping in her cot on her back - woke up a few minutes after being put down and fussed progressing to screaming over and over again. The problem seems to be wind as she settles back down after being burped.

The first night I think she ended up in our bed around 3 am (she sleeps well on our chests!). The second night DH woke to me crying and walking around the room with her at 3 am and then took over burping duties so I could get some sleep. The third night I think DH eventually just decided to sit up with her on his chest all night (co-sleeping scares him) and I suggested we put her in her car seat so she's upright and she slept for about four hours

Last night we just put her in her car seat to start with and had a great night's sleep with only a couple of wakings for feeds. We've got another appointment with the osteopath on Monday, as that really seemed to help before (albeit temporarily!), but until then are we doing terrible things to her spine if she sleeps in her car seat?

lolol

lisad her pram is the same as her car seat.

Wonder if side sleeping would help.

ROFL at Muslim

DS slept in this until he started rolling over at 4 months. Didn't do him the slightest bit of harm; he walked across the room a week before 9 months!

Ds1 was very similar in not liking sleeping on his back, and would spend a lot of time sleeping on us.

We used to put a hot water-bottle in the moses basket to warm up the mattress in the hope that the warmth would ease his discomfort & put in dh's worn tshirt for the comforting smell. Sometimes it worked but in the end, we used to put him down on his front as he'd go to sleep that way and then turn him.

But dd2 has nearly always managed to flip herself on her front to sleep no matter how often we turned her onto her back & enjoyed being nice and warm. With the 1st, I used to worry about overheating & be obsessive about the temperature (as we had a baby monitor with an inaccurate temperature alarm sensor which didn't help my nerves) & we don't even have the heating on at night. But then I read that babies don't sweat quite like we do, but their torsos become clammy to the touch if too hot (as well as very hot in the face) and to use that as an indicator.

i know unlikely, but an amby nest is a wonderful thing, if someone has one cheapo or you can borrow. Shame about her pram, does that not lay flat either then?

Not very popular answer here, but both mine found it impossible to sleep on their backs so I let them sleep on their fronts. It worked great with both of them.
Co-sleeping's fine if you aren't under the influence of anything...iykwim ;)
Just my penny's-worth. You'll find what works best as you get to know her. bws.

my LO sleps on her front, i certainly dont spend the night rolling her back again hehe

I stuck books under one end of the moses basket stand as 2 of mine had awful reflux. They also slept on their sides swaddled really tightly. Most nights I would sit up holding them though. It got better by around 3 months (the sleeping bit, not the reflux).

ches did you mention those to me the other day or was that someone else?

lisad I really wanted an Amby Nest but were given a cot secondhand - might have a look on ebay.

This post has been delayed by a particularly impressive bout of puking by DD which involved us both changing our clothes!

Get some infant Gaviscon and see if that makes a difference Angelpoise

Will do. I have a few things to try now anyway!

Thanks for the replies

I think I posted a link to it a week or so ago, yip. It was a bloody godsend. We'd both end up crying if I tried putting him back in the cot, even swaddled, but with the little rocker in reclined position next to the bed it was boob-nappy-boob-rocker-zzzzzzzz.

well,it's a while back now,but my dd2 had a problem with her spine at 15 months.can't remember the name of it,but the osteopath-a top man in his field too-had never seen such a thing in a child under 2.it was a bit like osteoarthritis and-although touch wood she's fine now-he did say that it could affect her in later life.thing is,she did have reflux when she was younger than this and we had to sit her alot in her baby-seat and i've often wondered if this is what started it.

Anglepoise - a few people have mentioned reflux. It might be worth going to the GP about this just in case as it is treatable - you don't just have to wait for LO to grow out of it. My brother had reflux as a baby and it went undiagnosed for months, causing my parents much unnecessary stress.

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I am starting to think that reflux is the likely culprit. We took her back to the osteopath today, so will see if that helps, and we have our six week check next Tuesday, so will bring it up with the GP then if no improvement

yes after 4 months of my dd screaming and only sleeping about 8 hours out of 24 the gp finally said it be worth trying gaviscon, a couple of days later it was like having a different baby......

does she make screeching sounds after feeding/?

Have you tried putting a pillow under her mattress to raise that up at one end? You can still tuck her in feet to feet as long as her head is higher than her feet.

How about something like this

www.babyreflux.co.uk/products/Baby-AR-Pillow-Wedge.html

Saw it on a Babywhisperer programme on telly and worked wonders for a refluxy baby.