Sleep drama (again)

[judecorp]

Co-sleeping was a temporary fix, it seems. She is no longer content to sleep next to me. She must be held tightly by me in the crook of my arm. At least, that was all that would work last night - and she still woke up every hour or so.

At one point she was sleeping in the crook of my arm (which is incredibly uncomfortable and usually ends up hurting my arm, hand, shoulder, etc.) and she must have been laying just so, because she managed to totally block the circulation to my hand. When she woke up fussing, I realized that I had gone past the pins and needles stage, past the dead hunk of meat stage, and I /could not move my fingers or thumb/. It was the freaking scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I was sitting there trying to will my fingers to move.

Eventually I had rubbed my arm enough that the pins and needles feeling came and I was able to move my digits again.

Seriously scary! And getting an hour (or so) of sleep last night was seriously sucky.

Comments

[heartspunmom.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if you've tried/been asked about this already, but have you tried putting her on her tummy? My son is a terribly light sleeper but seems to settle for longer periods when he's on his tummy. He also loved to be swaddled when he was brand new.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I would love for her to sleep on her tummy. If I put her on her tummy (or if she rolls onto her tummy) she thinks it's play time. She pushes up, crawls around, etc. etc. Not sleep. I have even tried rolling her onto her tummy when she is in a deep sleep - wakes up, crawls around.

Currently she is still swaddled because being totally immobile is the only way she will settle down enough to fall asleep. But she breaks out of every swaddle. And hates being swaddled.

[heartspunmom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it only really works for us if he's already fallen asleep in arms. Which he does. Every night. Because there is no other way.

I'm so sorry you're still struggling with this. It sucks, I totally know.