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Offline ~Kiki

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Sleep flinches
« on: November 17, 2006, 21:44:09 pm »
I remember reading about this when my lo was a newborn, but I'm wondering how long it is supposed to last. When my 5 month old is going to sleep she still gets the little flinches right when she's about to fall asleep and it wakes her right back up again. We still swaddle her, since it seems 10 times worse if we don't. Any suggestions?
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Re: Sleep flinches
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 02:41:28 am »
i swaddled my LO until she was about 27/28 weeks.  i didn't force weaning the swaddle because she dropped it when she was ready so don't worry about it.  however, if she's rolling, we may need to find an alternative to having her arms pinned.

anyway, those jolts happen at 10 and 20 minute mark.  sometimes though, either of those jolts will wake her up completely and she'll have to start all over - new jolts at 10 and 20 minutes.  if she's not rolling, the only thing i know of is to swaddle so her arms don't fly up and to stay by her bed and shush if it wakes her up.  she'll outgrow them.

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