Talk to me about rolling over & swaddling

[ZeezMom]

My 5-month-old - admittedly not a great sleeper, but not as bad as my first - just learned to roll from back to tummy. He hates sleeping on his tummy, but he can't seem to stop rolling that way.

Sleep has gone completely out the window. He's hysterical if he's on his tummy, on his back & now side-sleeping isn't doing it for him anymore, either. All night long it's musical beds - from bassinet to our bed to bassinet. Nothing seems to make him comfortable/happy. He also used to nap fairly well, now he won't even let me put him down.

I've returned to swaddling him, but that's not been helpful, either. He's nearly 18lbs & the swaddle is just barely holding him anyway.

Is this just the wrench of a new skill being thrown in the gears? Can you share with me similar experiences at this age so I don't completely lose my mind? I'm shredded with exhaustion.

[reignbelle]

dd1 was similar. She learned to roll at 5 months and became hysterical every time she ended up on her belly. Took her about 2 weeks until she figured out Not to roll over hahaha. So that was the end of moving for her until she crawled at 9 months. She was then happy rolling over playing on tummy crawling sitting up.

[ZeezMom]

Originally Posted by reignbelle

So that was the end of moving for her until she crawled at 9 months.

Interesting. Intellectually I know that these new skills have the potential to really shake things up, but when it happens so abruptly & intensely, I begin to wonder if that's all it is.

Thanks for sharing.

[maptome]

For me, DD wanted to sleep on her tummy but she had never learned to "relax" in that position. She would roll over and wake herself up by doing reflexive push-ups. I let her work it out. Just nursing her to sleep when she couldn't fall back asleep by herself. I think it took a couple of weeks of hourly wakings, but now, she can roll around and sleep on her tummy peacefully. Note: She was 6 months when we unswaddled her and let her figure it out.

[tzs]

mine had the same problem but instead of dealing with the rolling (she could roll half swaddled) i just upped the ante on the swadlle by doing the double-swaddle (google on you tube) with a big swaddle cloth.
but now i'm going to have to deal with the swaddle and quitting cold turkey. (she's 6mo) we're having a bout of teething and siome upcoming travel so waiting until all that's over.
ugh.

[Conifer]

Just wanted to commiserate. My ds (almost 5 months) does the same thing only opposite. He sleeps on his belly and rolls onto his back and freaks out flailing his arms and legs everywhere half-asleep. I just roll him back over and pat his back and he seems fine. He just hates to sleep on his back...don't yell at me about the sleeping on his tummy thing...he will NOT sleep on his back. It's gotten a bit better in the last week. Now when he wakes up he rolls onto his back and plays with the crib bars. I think he knows what's going on now.

[ZeezMom]

Thanks for sharing.

I'm just getting so frustrated because he hates it on his back AND his tummy. We always used to set him on his side swaddled when he was really new He's a big boy though so we're having a real tough time propping him up to where he won't slide down onto his back.

We went back to the swaddle & have all sorts of things propping him up, but he's getting too big for the cosleeper & it will soon be time to switch him to the crib. I WISH he was OK w/cosleeping like my first, but there's no way to prop him for sure while in bed w/us so he's no happier that way.

Ugh. Sleep issues. Over it.