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What the heck is going on?

CaptainDCaptainD
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DD goes to bed at 8 PM and typically stays asleep until 2 or 3 AM.  After that feeding, she goes back to bed but becomes restless an hour later.  This continues every hour to hour and a half.  She isn't hungry and stops fussing/crying when I hold her.  We swaddle her in a kiddopotamus and, when I go in to check on her when she is fussing, she is stretching her legs way out and then bringing them up in the air and trying to move her arms.  I am wondering if the swaddle is bugging her.  A lot of times an arm will have escaped or something too.  But if we don't swaddle her, her reflex wakes her up.

Any suggestions or ideas?  Do we need a different swaddle solution?  Any tricks you have to keep your LO's comfortable and asleep after the first wake up?

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Re: What the heck is going on?

  • MrsRebeccaMrsRebecca member
    Sounds like it could be gas
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  • ezralite0ezralite0
    Whoa, my son was doing this exact thing for a good three weeks. Then suddenly, last week, it stopped. I think it was a reaction to an earlier bedtime, since we started putting him down from 6 - 7pm. But, I put him down at 7:30 last night and started up again with the 1.5 hour wakings . . . we still swaddle him every night and use white noise. I was reading somewhere that the difference in setting can jar them awake; like if you put them to sleep in your arms and then put them down when they are in a deep sleep, they can wake up and realize they're in a different place and freak out. I tried putting DS down drowsy but awake for a while, but that didn't work so hot.
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  • ACRACR
    DS does this as well...I do think it's gas or him working out his morning poop. I'm experimenting with giving him some gas drops at his middle of the night feeding.
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  • cma1989cma1989
    The leg stretching makes it seem like it might be gas... My DD didn't like the kiddopatomus swaddlers. A receiving blanket works much better for her because I can make it tighter.
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  • amber&patrickamber&patrick member
    No help here, but I can relate. DS doesn't sleep well after his first wake, either. 
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  • smahersmaher
    I agree, sounds like gas.  Colton's gas is vicious and I'm hoping doctor okays using mylicon drops with him.  Nothing else is working.
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  • MrsRebeccaMrsRebecca member

    imagesmaher:
    I agree, sounds like gas.  Colton's gas is vicious and I'm hoping doctor okays using mylicon drops with him.  Nothing else is working.

    I can't see why a doctor wouldn't be okay with it. 

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  • smittendorffsmittendorff member
    The first DS broke out of his swaddle by 3 months, but we were using the SwaddleMe.  This time we're using the Halo Sleepsack Swaddle, and it holds our second DS so much better.  I would highly recommend trying the Halo swaddle instead.  It's so much better designed, and it's what they use in the hospitals. 
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