Help with Swaddle

[Val B]

Hey
My LG is 8 weeks and for the past couple of weeks has waged a full out war against the swaddle!  She was ok earlier with only a little bit of struggling and then calming down and not waking mid-nap; now she gets very upset during wind-down and has more trouble settling and has begun to struggle at about 45mins into her nap, so much so that she can't soothe herself.  Does anyone have any suggestions to help end this war?!?

Val

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[jess, lukeys_mom]

Does she ever sleep without the swaddle, and have you had success with it? If so then I wouldn't force the issue of the swaddle, there are definitely lo's who do without.

If not, what is making you think she is hating the swaddle? Is it that she tries to wriggle out of it?

[Val B]

Hello
We have been trying without the swaddle but she fidgets the whole time.  And yes she tries wriggles out with a lot of grunting and groaning.  The newest thing now is constantly coming out of sleep at 45 mins, not putting herself back to sleep, and not going back to sleep at all.  She is normally a happy calm baby until swaddle time - am i not catching her cues fast enough or too soon? When she does wake, i try to sh/pat her which seems to work but then she fidgets and starts it all over again.  i have started to try to pick her up (sometimes with re-swaddling), sh/pat to calm, and then put her down.  the past few days have been very bad for naps getting maybe 45mins and the past 3 evenings i have resorted to letting her sleep on me to finally settle her for the night (we never had to do that before).

As well, she looks like she is putting her fists to her mouth all the time now even if she just ate- is it a developmental thing?

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[sanaya]

luv,
could u post your easy? lets see if we can help you. r u swaddling tight enough?

[Val B]

Thursday  - DAY 1
E 8:00
A
S 8:55
E 11:07
A
S Out for a walk
E 2:25
A
S 2:50 woke at 45 mins
E 5:13
A Bath at 6
E 6:20 good feed
S 6:50 fussed at 7:20
Didn’t go into deep sleep
E 8:30 – still did not settle – sh/pat, cuddling etc
S 9:30 – put in crib after falling asleep on me
DF 11:11 pm
NF 4:10 am


Friday    -DAY 2
E 7:46
A
S Out/ Put in crib at home & stayed asleep
E 11:43
A
S 1:03 woke at 45 mins
E 2:36
A
S 3:30 woke at 45 mins
E 5:20
A bath at 6
E 6:20  poor feed
S 6:35 – fussed at 7:10
Didn’t go into deep sleep
E 8:20 little – back to crib, did not settle
S 9:30 – put in crib after falling asleep on me
DF 11:30 pm
NF 4:45 am

Saturday           Day 3
E 8:00
A
S 8:50 – fussy –  9:30 sh/pat till 10 then slept
E 11:45
A
S 12:45 – woke at 45 mins
E  2:18
A
S 3:00 good sleep
E 5:52
A bath at 6:15
S 6:50 (we tried tofeed but she didn’t want it) – fussed 7:20 wouldn’t sleep
E 7:33
S 8:10 fussed 8:40, 9:10
Wouldn’t go down at all at 9:10 so
E 10:00 –
S 10:30
NF 2:30

She usually goes to down easily with little intervention (in fact it seems to keep her awake) so now i am not sure how to put her back to sleep when she wakes too soon.   I try to swaddle her tightly but she is literally bound and determined to get her arms out.  I even tried to do one arm out but that didn't seem to change anything.  What is even more confusing is that she did great (as in back to normal) for a few days and today she didn't nap well and we are worried for tonight.  I should also mention that she got her 2 month shots on Tuesday (no fever or reactions) and I got a flu shot on Friday - i'm not sure if that has had any effect.

Thanks

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[sanaya]

could it be that the shot was a bit sore, it hurts a bit for about 24-48 hours, maybe why she was restless?
give me a bit, let me go thru your easy, i got to pack my boys off to school.
see ya soon.

[Val B]

I thought about the soreness too on the first night but by the third we were just at a loss.  funny its night time here - and as we were worried about she woke after ~35 mins of sleep - my husband is working on her now poor girl

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[~*~Louisa~*~]

Have you tried swaddling with her arms out?

Sophina has periods where she will scream if i try to swaddle her with her arms in although she is usually fine with it some times she just wants her arms out

[A pair of Charlies]

Hi

I had similar issues with the swaddle at 3 months. DS loved having his fist in his mouth (he's now a superb thumb sucker) and fought his way out of the swaddle most nights. He also had a horrible 45 min nap wake up habit that I now realise was a problem with his EASY A times and his inability to selfsoothe.

Anyway, I had him in a miracle swaddle which clamps those little arms down. After a while (when he got to 3 months ish), he spent so much effort trying wriggling out it while he stirred in his sleep that I kind of gave the swaddle up - gradually making it more and more loose once he was asleep until he wasn't really swaddled at all. Then I started to put him in bed unswaddled.

If tweaking the EASY doesn't work, that gives you the fall back option I hope.
HTH

Charlotte