Thrashing around early hours of morning 😴😩
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Ahh! So this went on for nearing an hour, she’s never done it before either! It stopped when I picked her up and put on me where she slept for 10mins or so. I put her back down and she didn’t do it again?! Werid! Aww bless you hun, sending lots of love! They’re right little beans aren’t they! X
Our boy does this. He’s 9 weeks old and has done it practically since birth and after his second feed which he’s having now he’ll go back down for about half an hour to an hour then he’ll start wriggling and grunting, the only way he stops is if we lay him on us. We haven’t found a better alternative yet for it.
Yes every night from like 4-7 and it’s so tiring😞 she wakes herself up from doing that eventually and lately she’s not been going back down after 5am, no matter what I do. Looked into motor restlessness, we’re going to try some more exercises during wake windows 🤞
yes i recently did a post about this - my little girl is 12 weeks old and has always done this, especially in the early hours like after 4am - i think she's just in very light active sleep (grunting, groaning, squirming, sometimes crying out, but has her eyes closed the whole time) - but also their digestive systems are sort of waking up and it could also be trapped wind and them becoming more aware of digestive sensations. but yeah its impossible to sleep as i constantly think she's waking up 😬😬x
The only thing we noticed helped ours from wriggling around in her sleep, was swaddling. She slept completely silently after we started doing that.
This sounds more like active sleep where they are asleep but move and thrash a lot. If you reset their dummy or put a hand on the chest it will calm them
@Samantha yes we were swaddling up until last week! as she's getting bigger and stronger though she's learning to grab the muslin and fight her way out so we had to stop 😬
@Molly this literally sounds the exact same as our 9 week old. I give up by about 5am come downstairs and let him sleep on me. 🤞 they will grow out of it soon
My 10/11 week old does this - I think it’s called active sleep and is perfectly normal - but we’re the same - on the one hand it’s great she doesn’t wake but on the other hand it definitely wakes me up and I can’t go back to sleep until it’s over.
Yep my boy is the same he’s 12 weeks and it’s been a thing for a good few weeks and not that I co-sleep but he comes in with me (on my chest) and stops! Otherwise he was doing this for hours and I was not sleeping so unfortunately at the moment all I do to settle him is keep him with me usually after 4:30/5 I’m like “ok big bed it is” 🙃🙂
@Nicola gonna have to try this!
My boy is 9 weeks too and doing the same sometimes. I just wait for it to pass as it looks like he's still sleeping and don't want to completely wake him. It never lasts more than a few mins, maybe 10mins tops. So while it keeps me awake, it's not for too long. Tonight we have trapped wind snd spitting up milk that's keeping me awake, which hasn't happened in the middle of the night for a long while ...