Learning to self soothe?

My wee one does a bit of this. But he will
He feeding to sleep then roll away in a rather dramatic “I’m done with you” fashion, but then roll back 5 seconds later, and then repeat a few times… then he might rub his wee head on the mattress for a bit or rub his ear. Like you I will try and soothe by rubbing his back but it’s like he finds it irritating 😂

Mine does the same except she pulls on my hair! She falls asleep once she has a chunk of it in her hand 😂

omg my daughter does this too! So annoying I think great, I'm finally free to move a bit but she wants to come back seconds later 🤦‍♀️ I went for a wee when she stirred the other night.. Came back and she'd rolled onto her front and gone back to sleep which she's NEVER done independently. Annoying thing is I couldn't leave her to sleep because she kept face planting the mattress and I don't think it's safe on our bed, especially as she seems to have forgotten how to roll back too. They're so odd sometimes aren't they 😂

the exact same thing happened to me the other night and I was trying to measure how far his wee nostrils were from the mattress… he looked so comfy I didn’t want to move him but my anxiety got the better of me and I flipped him over, obvs he woke up! Do you always sleep in the c position still?

I was doing the exact same too 😂😂 so funny when you read someone else is having the same experiences. Yes pretty much we sleep in the c position, but my hips hurt sometimes so if I can manage to roll onto my back without waking her I do! I'm a very light sleeper and she's noisy when she stirs so it's been fine. She also only really rolls one way in bed so I always lie the same side! Hoping to get her into her own room soon as she feeds hourly overnight most nights since November and it's taking its toll a bit.. Hoping when she can't smell me she won't stir as c often! Can't see how we'll ever get to that point though! X

we are the exact same! And my left hip is bloody agony in the morning, considered putting my mattress topper back on my bed but again had too much anxiety that it’s too squishy for Arie 😂 I’m a light sleeper too and so is my wee one and I’m wondering if I’m actually waking him up when I’m wriggling about through the night. I honestly fantasise about how good it would feel to lie on my other side for an hour 😳 We are hourly feeds at the moment and I genuinely don’t know how people cope with hourly feeds if they don’t bed share, I think I’d collapse. I was wondering too about maybe me wee one waking smelling the milk. Because sometimes at the start of the night I’ll get his dad to have him in the baby carrier for a couple of hours so I can do stuff and he will sleep absolutely fine with him 😳 it’s a difficult one… x

I feel you all with the hip pain! I managed to get some sleep on my back last night and felt luxurious 😂 we were on hourly wakings for weeks and then the last 3 nights he’s only woken up twice…not sure what’s going on 😂 I of course wake up more and just stare at him waiting for him to wake up 😂 we are transitioning into his cot this week (still in our room) so wish me luck! 🤞🏻

to be honest we still have the mattress topper on that we bought when I was pregnant - never planned on bedsharing and haven't really given it a thought actually! But I think I'd feel the same about adding one as that would change what baby is used to wouldn't it. Totally agree - wouldn't be able to cope without the bedsharing at the moment! That being said, I think Mabel wakes out of habit now and needs help to settle between every sleep cycle because that's just what she's got used to. I think with some work and determination we could change things but it would be upsetting for us both and that's what I'm struggling with at the moment. They defo settle better for the dads I've found the same 😂 x