Re: Sleep Discomfort @ 7 months

[Guest guest]

Hi

My son had the same problem. He will be 7 months old tomorrow. As of a month

ago, he has been much more comfortable sleeping on his stomach. I usually

start him out on his back so he can play a little with his crib toys. He can now

turn himself over and go to sleep. Sometimes his bar gets stuck on the side of

the crib and I have to flip him myself. I was a little nervous at first having

him on his stomach, but he has really good head control and at this point is

almost crawling. Another problem I had was when his shoes were getting too

small and he let me know it by crying hysterically when I put the shoes on and

tried to get him to bed. As soon as we got him bigger shoes, he was fine again.

JoAnn

10/22/03 bcf DBB 12/24

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I was just planning to send a message to the list about this exact same

thing! Everything you described is exactly what is happening with our

daughter. Audrey is 7 1/2 months old and within the last few days has

started to do the exact same thing. It's like she gets stuck and since

she's half asleep, can't get her legs back over. We imagine that she'll

figure out how to do this on her own before too long but for now, it wakes

her up and we need to go and help untwist her. We would also appreciate

any tips to help with this!

Thank you,

Bess

At 08:23 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:

>Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group, although I have

>read it often and found much useful information here. Our little

>girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She has been treated

>with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well. Recently, she began

>waking up at night at various points crying in seeming discomfort.

>This is unusual for her, as she has always been a sound sleeper. It

>seems like she really wants to sleep on her side, so she rolls on to

>her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost entirely over.

>However, she then rolls back on to her back, but her legs stay

>flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very uncomfortable. When

>she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine within a few minutes.

>When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left foot has some

>redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We think that

>perhaps she is still working out how to find a comfortable sleeping

>position (she only recently started rolling over), but were wondering

>if anyone else has encountered similar problems and has any suggested

>solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

We had this issue too around this age. It turned out to be the bar being

too short. Then once we got the longer bar she got really tangled in the

covers and woke every 15 minutes for a week (very frustrating!) so we had

to go to this blanket wrap thingie that she could wear and stay warm

without having covers (we co-sleep). Using that made all the difference in

the world. She sleeps just fie now. Have you checked the bar length? If

it's making her heel red it kind of sounds like it might be too short. The

blanket thing is something my grandmother made for infants, it's a quilted

flannel blanket with a drawstring tie on the bottom and ties to close it up

along two sides. I put her in it and close the bottom, tie it up and it's

like a little sleeping bag. Works great! Anyone could make one of these

from a baby blanket by hemming one edge and putting a drawstring in and

sewing ties on the adjacent two sides to close it up. She can roll around

and crawl all over the bed and it stays on. And she can have it up by her

shoulders like a blanket to snuggle up in too. I oughta take a pic of it

while I have my dad's camera and send it to the pics group. In fact, maybe

I'll do that today.

HTH

Kori

Mama of

Kenton 6/98

Merek 3/00

Darbi 3/03 - Rt. CF - DBB 12hr/day

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At 08:23 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:

>Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group, although I have

>read it often and found much useful information here. Our little

>girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She has been treated

>with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well. Recently, she began

>waking up at night at various points crying in seeming discomfort.

>This is unusual for her, as she has always been a sound sleeper. It

>seems like she really wants to sleep on her side, so she rolls on to

>her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost entirely over.

>However, she then rolls back on to her back, but her legs stay

>flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very uncomfortable. When

>she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine within a few minutes.

>When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left foot has some

>redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We think that

>perhaps she is still working out how to find a comfortable sleeping

>position (she only recently started rolling over), but were wondering

>if anyone else has encountered similar problems and has any suggested

>solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I had the same problem with Owen for a while. The problem resolved

itself when I began putting him on his tummy to sleep. Having said

that, the first thing to check though would be the bar length -

measure the shoulder width and then compare it to the measurement of

the heel to heel width (insides) of the shoes. The measurements

should be roughly equal. I'm sure you've heard it on this list

before but it's really true that a too short bar can make baby

uncomfortable.

Hope this helps,

Daiga and Owen

> Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group, although I have

> read it often and found much useful information here. Our little

> girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She has been treated

> with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well. Recently, she

began

> waking up at night at various points crying in seeming discomfort.

> This is unusual for her, as she has always been a sound sleeper.

It

> seems like she really wants to sleep on her side, so she rolls on

to

> her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost entirely over.

> However, she then rolls back on to her back, but her legs stay

> flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very uncomfortable. When

> she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine within a few

minutes.

> When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left foot has some

> redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We think that

> perhaps she is still working out how to find a comfortable sleeping

> position (she only recently started rolling over), but were

wondering

> if anyone else has encountered similar problems and has any

suggested

> solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

[Guest guest]

I had the same problem with Owen for a while. The problem resolved

itself when I began putting him on his tummy to sleep. Having said

that, the first thing to check though would be the bar length -

measure the shoulder width and then compare it to the measurement of

the heel to heel width (insides) of the shoes. The measurements

should be roughly equal. I'm sure you've heard it on this list

before but it's really true that a too short bar can make baby

uncomfortable.

Hope this helps,

Daiga and Owen

> Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group, although I have

> read it often and found much useful information here. Our little

> girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She has been treated

> with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well. Recently, she

began

> waking up at night at various points crying in seeming discomfort.

> This is unusual for her, as she has always been a sound sleeper.

It

> seems like she really wants to sleep on her side, so she rolls on

to

> her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost entirely over.

> However, she then rolls back on to her back, but her legs stay

> flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very uncomfortable. When

> she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine within a few

minutes.

> When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left foot has some

> redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We think that

> perhaps she is still working out how to find a comfortable sleeping

> position (she only recently started rolling over), but were

wondering

> if anyone else has encountered similar problems and has any

suggested

> solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

[Guest guest]

My son sleeps like that, sometimes it looks like the

top half of him is lying on its back and the bottom

half is lying on its front... he's totally twisted

and his foot is pointing backwards, it looks really

uncomfortable but I guess since he likes sleeping like

that it must be comfy for him.

At other times he sleeps on his side with one foot

stuck in the air, he's bent about 45 degrees at the

middle which seems to balance it out. At first he

used to lean the top foot against the side of the cot

but now he doesn't bother (maybe you could try that

with your daughter by moving her closer to the edge of

the cot?). I have no idea how he can sleep like that

but he worked it out for himself and seems happy with

it. He's been sleeping through the night for quite

some time so it's obviously fine for him.

When he suddenly starts waking at night I usually

widen the bar a bit and then he's fine again but that

hasn't happened for a while now, I think he's not

growing quite so fast anymore...

All the best,

with and Alister (RCF, *11 Sep 02), UK

--- Bess Ecelbarger becelbar@...> wrote: > I

was just planning to send a message to the list

> about this exact same

> thing! Everything you described is exactly what is

> happening with our

> daughter. Audrey is 7 1/2 months old and within the

> last few days has

> started to do the exact same thing. It's like she

> gets stuck and since

> she's half asleep, can't get her legs back over. We

> imagine that she'll

> figure out how to do this on her own before too long

> but for now, it wakes

> her up and we need to go and help untwist her. We

> would also appreciate

> any tips to help with this!

>

> Thank you,

> Bess

>

> At 08:23 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:

> >Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group,

> although I have

> >read it often and found much useful information

> here. Our little

> >girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She

> has been treated

> >with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well.

> Recently, she began

> >waking up at night at various points crying in

> seeming discomfort.

> >This is unusual for her, as she has always been a

> sound sleeper. It

> >seems like she really wants to sleep on her side,

> so she rolls on to

> >her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost

> entirely over.

> >However, she then rolls back on to her back, but

> her legs stay

> >flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very

> uncomfortable. When

> >she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine

> within a few minutes.

> >When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left

> foot has some

> >redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We

> think that

> >perhaps she is still working out how to find a

> comfortable sleeping

> >position (she only recently started rolling over),

> but were wondering

> >if anyone else has encountered similar problems and

> has any suggested

> >solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

>

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[Guest guest]

Everyone has already given you some great advice, but I just want to

suggest that may also be an age thing and not the FAB. 7-8 months is

around the time of starting to crawl for a lot of babies. has

always been a fantastic sleeper, but when he was about 7 months, he was

went through a stage of being more restless at night. He had been in

the FAB for just over a month, so he was used to it.

We checked the bar, it was the right length, he was in a sleepsack so it

wasn't the sheets getting tangled. We found out that it's often the

stimulation of achieving this milestone of crawling particularly that

makes them too 'excited' to sleep soundly. It lasted for a week or two

and then he was fine again. We've noticed that he also has disturbed

nights if he's feeling sick or something has changed in his daily

routine (like a new person on the house), it not necessarily caused by

the FAB. So if you've eliminated everything else, it may just be a

short term developmental thing - and this too will pass!

Another thing, is quite a big baby and his crib was rather narrow.

When he was about 11 months old we transferred him into a playpen type

travel crib permanently when we saw how well he slept in it on holiday.

The reasoning was that it's much roomier with lots of space for the FAB.

Also there are no bars to get the FAB caught in, now he can just rest

the end of the FAB on the netting side of the crib when he's lying on

his side. Once he's no longer comfortable or too big, we'll make the big

transition to a bed - and then I'll be asking for help on this!

Hope this helps,

and

24th Jan 2003, bilateral cf

>

> At 08:23 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:

> >Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group,

> although I have

> >read it often and found much useful information

> here. Our little

> >girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She

> has been treated

> >with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well.

> Recently, she began

> >waking up at night at various points crying in

> seeming discomfort.

> >This is unusual for her, as she has always been a

> sound sleeper. It

> >seems like she really wants to sleep on her side,

> so she rolls on to

> >her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost

> entirely over.

> >However, she then rolls back on to her back, but

> her legs stay

> >flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very

> uncomfortable. When

> >she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine

> within a few minutes.

> >When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left

> foot has some

> >redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We

> think that

> >perhaps she is still working out how to find a

> comfortable sleeping

> >position (she only recently started rolling over),

> but were wondering

> >if anyone else has encountered similar problems and

> has any suggested

> >solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

>

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[Guest guest]

I want to thank everyone for their thoughts on our problem. After

receiving several suggestions that we place her on her belly, we

gave it a try, and it worked. She has had three nights in a row of

sound sleep, with no foot discomfort at night, and no irritation in

the morning. In fact, last night she was a little fussy getting to

sleep, so we tried to putting her on her back, and she tried to roll

back to her stomach. Back on her stomach, she was happy. Again,

thank you to all.

> > >Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the group,

> > although I have

> > >read it often and found much useful information

> > here. Our little

> > >girl is now 7 months old and has a left cf. She

> > has been treated

> > >with the Ponsetti technique, and is doing well.

> > Recently, she began

> > >waking up at night at various points crying in

> > seeming discomfort.

> > >This is unusual for her, as she has always been a

> > sound sleeper. It

> > >seems like she really wants to sleep on her side,

> > so she rolls on to

> > >her left side, with her feet/bars turning almost

> > entirely over.

> > >However, she then rolls back on to her back, but

> > her legs stay

> > >flipped over, so she is twisted and looks very

> > uncomfortable. When

> > >she cries, we untwist her legs and she is fine

> > within a few minutes.

> > >When we take the shoes off in the morning, her left

> > foot has some

> > >redness on the toe and heel, but nothing major. We

> > think that

> > >perhaps she is still working out how to find a

> > comfortable sleeping

> > >position (she only recently started rolling over),

> > but were wondering

> > >if anyone else has encountered similar problems and

> > has any suggested

> > >solutions. Thanks very much in advance.

> >

>

>

>

>

>

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