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May 2012 Moms
pischkepear
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sleep habits
pischkepear
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my daughter is 7 weeks old and hasn"t started extending her sleep in the night at all. She continues to wake up between two-three hours to feed. She"s about 10lbs and has problems with reflux. When in her crib the max we can get her down for is an hour and a half. She sleeps best in the swing (3 hours) because she"s upright, but I'm concerned about her relying on the swing to sleep. Is this just normal baby stuff or is there something we should be doing to help her sleep better? I get really jealous when i read everyone on the board talking about 5 or 6 hour stretches!
We have tried swaddling (she usually doesn"t like it because she"s so kicky) and putting her bassinette mattress on a slight incline. She is exclusively breastfed, but sometimes daddy feeds her from a bottle when i need a break. Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: sleep habits
When we were in the hospital my dd didn't sleep well in the bassinet next to my bed. When we got home we put her in the sleep nest (a bassinet-type bed that lays between my husband and me). She seems to like being close to us and has slept well in that. We recently moved her to a RNP to give us more room in our bed. In both places she has a 4 hour stretch, followed by a 3 hour then a 2 hour. She also doesn't swaddle because she likes to stretch.
Good luck.
Then came a miscarriage March '11
Then came a baby in the baby carriage May 16, 12
Waiting on our second little peanut!
My oldest son nursed every 45 mins at night until he was 10 months old...
This baby is the opposite. Different babies are different. DS1 wouldn't sleep without being attached to me AT ALL until he was 6 months old and then just barely. DS2 sleeps best close to me but not attached. And sleeps OK on his own even when nursed down. I actually nurse side-lying in my bed and then move him to the PnP on my side of the bed and generally get 2-3 hours at a time... or 4-5 hours if I leave him next to me but unattached.
I can't believe they haven't been recalled here in the USA they have been know to cause major health problems.
Op I know it seems like every baby sleeps more than three hours but it's normal for them not to. My last baby never slept more than two hours until four months and then I went back to work and he reverse cycled and was up every hour on the hour for months. I do the same things with this lo And he's slept 5 hour stretches from the start. Each baby is different and honestly there's not much the parents do or can do to make their baby be a good sleeper. On the up side your body will learn to live without sleep.
What major health problems do the Rock n' Play cause?
Positional plagiocephaly? Torticollis?
I haven't found any recall info and want to know because our LO sleeps in the RnP at night.
Yes, I ask my pediatrician about the rnp and she said she can't believe they are still market as a place to sleep not just a play place like a swing or bouncy seat. She has seen cases where the neck muscles had started to shorten in children using them.
I wasn't really able to find anything formal on google about a recall in Canada, but did find this forum post discussing the topic>
We bought a FP "Rock and Play Sleeper" as our bassinet, and it works well for us. I wanted to check the weight limit (turns out it's 25 pounds), so I looked it up online and saw that it's now called a "soother" instead of a "sleeper". When I bought it, the description mentioned that it was the only one of it's kind approved for overnight use, etc. - no mention of that anymore, so I called FP. The customer service agent was useless. She was able to tell me that due to changes in the laws in Canada, this product is no longer recommended for sleeping. I asked if that means that it's still approved for sleeping in the US, and she said she wasn't sure whether it met the legal requirements, but FP has decided that it's not appropriate to market it as a sleeper anymore in either country.
She couldn't give me any information on why it no longer meets the requirements. Were there reports of injuries? Did it compress babies' airways? Or is it something less scary like they use a different kind of fire retardant than the one now required? She had no idea. She did tell me where I can find the new bassinet requirements which this product doesn't meet, but it's several pages long and I have no way of telling which requirement(s) the product fails.
Ugh, you would think they would have this basic information about their own products. Does anyone else have any information on this or insight as to why it no longer meets the requirements to be marketed as a sleeper? I am trying to decide whether this means we need to move our DD out of it sooner than we were planning!