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There's a big growth spurt that usually starts around 3.5 months. We stopped using the swaddle around this time cause she could move in it so much, although she never rolled. Since then she has been a tummy sleeper. Is he fighting the swaddle? Or moving a bunch with it on? It may be worth a shot unswaddling to see what happens! Sorry you aren't getting any sleep

Will he stay asleep if you lie with him in bed? Or would he sleep better in your stroller?

Hang in there mama, I promise this won't last forever!

@.twist.: he should be pretty flexible about his sleeping arrangements at this point, I actually started bedsharing on a part time basis at six months (bloody regressions!) and at twelve months she spends some nights alone and some nights with me

Sometimes you do what you need to to get through and you can always go back to routine once you get through it!

I would try unswaddling! C started refusing a swaddle when he could roll over

Aggh I'm so sorry! Did anything end up working?

We used a merlin magic sleep suit at that time. It was so so helfpul

we are going through the exact same thing!
H has been sleeping through the night for the past month but starting two days ago shes been waking up every hour crying screaming & rolling over onto her tummy. only way to soothe her is to nurse her but once i pull her off the boob shes wide awake and fussy. after the 2nd time she wakes up and is inconsolable we bring her into bed with us and let her sleep the rest of the night in our bed. I'm hoping she gets over this in the next few days =(

@.twist.: I'm so sorry you are going through this for so long! Are you able to nap while he is napping during the day? (I suck at napping so it never really works for me- maybe it's hereditary?)

Have you thought about the baby merlins magic sleep suit? I think it is helping with our night sleep (growth spurts aside). It hasn't made naps any worse, but I don't really think anything could make then worse than they already are.

@.twist.: Not sure how I missed this post, but omg!! This is so us right now (boob thing and all!). L and C are like a week a part so go figure. Sleep has been so bad that DS has been sleeping with me the past few nights, but unswaddled. he’s normally swaddled. Co-sleeping has made tending to him when he wakes up easier, but neither of us really gets more sleep out of it. I hope us co-sleeping doesn’t make him not want to sleep in his crib!! I’m thinking about getting the merlin sleep suit because I’m THAT sleep deprived. I’ve been kind of unproductive at work because I’m so tired and sleepy. I have to watch my caffeine intake bc I know it affects C. Blah. I’ve tried sleep training, but the hubby doesn’t like hearing DS cry so he’ll run to him and help soothe, but he leaves for work at 2am and at that time, I’m in no state of mind to sleep train since I have to be up in a few hours for work. Sigh. I feel ya momma!! *hugs*

@yourekindapretty: Same here on him starting the night off in the crib, and me bringing him into bed with me after his first or second wake up. Sigh.

@EMG86: DS moves like crazy in his swaddle. Like he’ll be 90 degrees from where I put him down! I’m thinking about swaddle weaning, but he seems to sleep better with it on. As in it’s a cue for him to go to sleep once I put him in it. He’s been sleeping unswaddled next to me the past few nights, but I have to put a pillow on his legs to help him settle down. Otherwise, he’ll flail around like crazy all night long.

@.twist.: How'd last night go mama??

I'm thinking about swaddling him again... yay or nay??

@.twist.: if you're letting him cry, I personally would try to give him access to his hand to suck on. I know people have talked about swaddling with arms up or crossed but I'm not sure how. But I dunno how a kiddo would be able to self soothe without any ability to move. A lovey might help too; we introduced one at 5mish.

@.twist.: we're still dealing with this regression, too. It's now been almost 2 weeks. The first 4-5 days we still swaddled as we always have but she started waking up more and more often. Then I ordered a Merlin Magic Sleep suit and while we waited for it to arrive, we tried totally unswaddled just in footie Pjs, and she continued waking up a million times a night. When the Merlin arrived, we put her in that and while it definitely calmed her movements and she didn't flail about, and it kept her warm (which was great as it's getting cold here and we don't use the heater), it didn't magically make her sleep longer.

But, two days ago I started my own haphazard version if nap training, where I started laying her down awake in her crib---tired but awake-- where previously I always held her while she fell asleep and then fed her because she had feeding issues and would basically only eat while she was sleeping, and I used to transfer her after she fell asleep. Anyway, I didn't even have a plan for nap training, I just kind of wanted to see what would happen-- the first day, I made up a new naptime routine and did it, then laid her down awake...she played and flailed in her crib for a full 20 minutes, then kind of whine cried for 6-7 minutes then fell asleep . No out and out crying. I was shocked. I repeated that for her other two naps. Did the same thing yesterday. I don't want to jinx myself but I just did it for her morning nap and she fell asleep by herself in about 3 minutes.

Night time sleep: my husband always does the nighttime routine and puts her down and he is a total softie. He typically does what I used to do for naps-- nighttime routine ending in a bottle where she falls asleep drinking, then transfer to the crib. Last night, he did the bottle first, then her pjs and sleep suit and put her down sleepy but awake. She whined for about 10 minutes and then fell asleep on her own. Since my husband is at work during the day, he is definitely not used to her cries at all (she 's never been a big crier so we are both used to responding to her at the first noise ) and I know it was SO hard for him to not rush in there and pick her up. And these were not even full -on scream cries. But I convinced him to just wait at least until she really started to cry---and she never did. She fell asleep!

At 10:30, she stirred and let out two big cries but I didn't get out of bed (her crib is up against our bed) and she went back to sleep. At 12:02 exactly she woke up for real and I fed her. She then slept till almost 3 and I fed her again. Then she slept till 6:25 (a miracle!!) at that point she was up for about 20 minutes but then she slept till 8.

So... Not near as good as she used to sleep-- but that was a BIG improvement in her sleep compared to the last 2 weeks,. I'm not ready to stop her from eating at night, as she has some catching up to do in terms of weight and I'm thrilled she 's starting to eat well. But my fingers are crossed she 'll keep improving. And stretching out her wakeups.

Hopefully, you'd babe will start improving soon too!