https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:52:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1590411 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:56:27 +0000 Pirouette 1590411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: haha yea I don't really listen to the "experts!" I think you may be right - and this probably was the worst time for the crib transition because there's so much going on, but hopefully this will pass once she's used to it! She's gotten much better at self soothing now that she's in the crib for some reason, so at least there's that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1590256 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:56:24 +0000 Cherrybee 1590256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: We usually wait until she cries because she's a really light sleeper and going into her room wakes her up. If she's on her front we go straight in though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1589397 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:07:43 +0000 PurplePeony 1589397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our babies are about the same age, and my DD does this, too. I don't remember the last time she woke up in the same position we put her down in! She has been in her crib since about 2 months, though, and I think she's mostly gotten used to moving around in her sleep by now -- your LO probably will, too, it might just take a little while. Sometimes DD does end up waking herself by kicking the rails, especially since her new thing is to raise both legs up and then SLAM them down on the mattress...when she did that and hit the railings instead, it definitely woke her up!</p> <p>When she does wake at night, we go to her right away and help her settle, but she is an "escalator" (will usually go right back to sleep if we get there quickly but gets worked up to the point where she won't sleep for a long time if we let her get to the real crying stage). Sleep experts would probably say we're doing it wrong, but it works for us... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1589190 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:24:55 +0000 Pirouette 1589190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: haha seriously! she's all over the place now, i can't imagine how much worse it'll be at 9 months! do you catch her before she wakes up? or wait till she cries?</p> <p>@Alivoo01: this is totally going to be how my girl is. she LOOOOVES standing and bouncing already. she can't be bothered to sit up though, and every time i put her in her boppy to practice, she uses it to stand herself up. of course, she's way too little, and promptly falls over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1588828 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:07:31 +0000 Alivoo01 1588828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: Kind of, but not really. He crawls/scoots backwards, but shows zero interest in forward crawling. However, he LOVES LOVES LOVES standing up and bouncing like a maniac. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1588518 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:45:38 +0000 Cherrybee 1588518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is the bane of my existence right now!!! DD didn't do this when she was younger but now, at 9 months, she gets herself into all kids of positions all through the night and I have to go in to rescue her!! Legs between the bars, head squeezed up in a corner, on her front, sideways, legs up the side of the cot.... it's really quite alarming!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1588490 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:41:13 +0000 mdf106 1588490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess it probably depends on your LO. My LO is less likely to go back down easily if I get him than if I get him. By 4 months, if it was after 4 am or so, if I get him, or he even hears us, he does not go back down at all, but if I let him fuss he is much more likely to go back to sleep. By 4.5 months, a baby should be capable of self soothing some, not that they necessarily will. Also, for my LO, he does not seem to mind ending up in seemingly uncomfortable positions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1587257 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:48:26 +0000 Pirouette 1587257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mdf106: we probably should, but we go to her even faster now that she's not in our room. I also think it's because the crib is so new to her, we're not confident she's going to get herself back down. And dh always says once he hears her, he wants to get her ASAP so she doesn't wake up too fully and we can get her down easily! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1586683 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:32:06 +0000 mdf106 1586683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always waited until LO was really crying to get him, to give him time to try to self settle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1585405 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:50:19 +0000 Pirouette 1585405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: that's a really interesting idea, thanks! is he crawling? i feel like this is maybe related to her practicing rolling/sitting up, and it'll happen again when she learns to crawl? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1585271 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:05:23 +0000 Alivoo01 1585271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS went through this at that age and at 9 months now, he still turns every which way while sleeping!</p> <p>Have you tried the "nests" Mrs. Blue did for her boys? You could try that and see if that helps! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dancing-around-the-crib#post-1585197 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:23:10 +0000 Pirouette 1585197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So my baby is 4.5 months, and I know she's going through a lot developmentally right now and is supposed to be regressing with sleep. Shes also teething, etc. Typical stuff. We'd hoped to put off the crib transition until after the regression period to make it easier, but the girl outgrew her bassinet overnight last week. So off to the crib she went and she did well!</p> <p>However, now that she has all this room, she's all over the place! She's turning 180 degrees and often ending up sideways in the crib and occasionally waking up from it (I don't know if she is hitting the side of the crib or what). And then she's also rolling 3/4 of the way onto her tummy and then back. That one concerns me less as she seems to sleep through it. But the constant dancing around seems to be waking her up, and it's definitely waking us as we hear it all night on the monitor. She sleeps in a sleep sack, which I assume is why she's only rolling 3/4. </p> <p>I guess I'm just wondering what worked for you if your lo did this? Do I wait until she upsets herself and wakes up fully? Do I shift her preemptively to try to prevent the wakeup? And is this a phase? I'm hoping she'll get more used to all the extra room and it'll be easier? I'm not even sure exactly what is waking her (could be she's hitting the side of the crib and then once it wakes her she realized her teeth hurt or she's hungry)...or if we are going in too quickly and she would self-settle. I don't like leaving her to cry.</p> <p>Anyone been through this? </p>