I'll try to be quick with this as I never know when she's going to wake up!
DD is 7 months. We've co-slept (bed shared) since birth. She's very mobile and has been for a while, and our bed is high, so when she's in there alone, we had been listening to the monitor and sprinting at the slightest sound. She has a crib, but we haven't managed to lower her into it without waking her (and she won't fall asleep without nursing, or at least in arms with a pacifier). So last week, realizing she would crawl off the bed one day soon, I set up a "bed" on the floor of her room out of a pile of blankets. I can nurse her there, and we don't have to move her (at night when we go to bed, we take her into bed with us). So this seems to be a good solution for now. However, the majority of the time when I hear her crying or moving and go in to see her, she is either sitting up or crawling around, but she doesn't seem to be fully awake. I can guide her back down, give her a pacifier and she falls back asleep. If she's sitting and I watch her to see what happens, she wobbles and looks like she's going to fall over, so I catch her. Crawling, I've found her about to head-butt her crib. Her room is basically safe, but I don't want her to be banging into furniture or the walls! She does enough tumbling when she's awake.
She has been congested/sniffly for the past two weeks with what we think is her first cold (maybe allergies, but she was around a sick baby two days before it started). So she may be waking/startling from her stuffy nose.
She can grab her pacifier, but when she puts it in herself, she opts to chew it backwards, rather than put it in the correct way to suck on it. So she doesn't know how to soothe herself to sleep with it. (This afternoon, I found her crawling and grabbing for the pacifier, but not having any luck picking it up.. probably because her eyes were half open!)
Is this normal? If not, is there some reason she might be doing this? I assume it's one of those things that will just take time, maybe it's related to all of the new things she's doing/learning, but in case I could be doing something else, I'd love to hear any advice/experiences!
DD is 7 months. We've co-slept (bed shared) since birth. She's very mobile and has been for a while, and our bed is high, so when she's in there alone, we had been listening to the monitor and sprinting at the slightest sound. She has a crib, but we haven't managed to lower her into it without waking her (and she won't fall asleep without nursing, or at least in arms with a pacifier). So last week, realizing she would crawl off the bed one day soon, I set up a "bed" on the floor of her room out of a pile of blankets. I can nurse her there, and we don't have to move her (at night when we go to bed, we take her into bed with us). So this seems to be a good solution for now. However, the majority of the time when I hear her crying or moving and go in to see her, she is either sitting up or crawling around, but she doesn't seem to be fully awake. I can guide her back down, give her a pacifier and she falls back asleep. If she's sitting and I watch her to see what happens, she wobbles and looks like she's going to fall over, so I catch her. Crawling, I've found her about to head-butt her crib. Her room is basically safe, but I don't want her to be banging into furniture or the walls! She does enough tumbling when she's awake.
She has been congested/sniffly for the past two weeks with what we think is her first cold (maybe allergies, but she was around a sick baby two days before it started). So she may be waking/startling from her stuffy nose.
She can grab her pacifier, but when she puts it in herself, she opts to chew it backwards, rather than put it in the correct way to suck on it. So she doesn't know how to soothe herself to sleep with it. (This afternoon, I found her crawling and grabbing for the pacifier, but not having any luck picking it up.. probably because her eyes were half open!)
Is this normal? If not, is there some reason she might be doing this? I assume it's one of those things that will just take time, maybe it's related to all of the new things she's doing/learning, but in case I could be doing something else, I'd love to hear any advice/experiences!
