Safety sleep not working - help!
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Topic: Safety sleep not working - help!
Posted By: Brenna
Subject: Safety sleep not working - help!
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 8:38pm
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Eek! My 10 month old girl has turned into houdini (spl?). She can get out of her safety sleep even if I pin it closed as tight as I can.
She then doesn't sleep cause she crawls all around her cot and plays with the bars/sheets/blankets... So, what should I do? Do I get rid of it and put her into bed and let her crawl around until she falls asleep (I don't even know if she would) What I've been doing is just going back in and putting her in it again and again. She then eventually gets so tired that she falls asleep half in and half out of the safety sleep (and looks very uncomfortable!) She used to be so good at going to sleep, now its such a battle! My other thought is to try pushing her sleeps out a bit later so that she's really tired and might hopefully go straight to sleep like she used to... Phew! What a long post 
ETA: Emma, I'm going to try the sleeping bag tomorrow - fingers crossed! -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 8:50pm
Hmmm - I haven't had a problem since I started safety pinning Ashleigh's. Are you using a safety pin? And you do it up as tight as it will go? How is she escaping? I would LOVE to get rid of ours. Maybe you could try just leaving her and see if she does eventually fall asleep? At the moment it will be a novelty for her to be able to move around so maybe once she has fully explored she will realise it is boring and go to sleep?? Not that Ash does - I have tried a number of times and I think maybe twice she has gone to sleep. All other times she starts getting hysterical after 40 mins or so  ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 8:53pm
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I use 2 safety pins! She pushes with her feet and goes up out the tope end of the safety sleep. Argh! It's such a pain! ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 8:56pm
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Hi Anna
I had a little houdini as well although he never mastered undoing the safety pin. What a smart little cookie you have there. I eventually decided right its time for my DS to go to bed without it (we had stopped using it at nightime and was just using it for his daysleep). I really didn't know how it would go, and also thought that he would not go to sleep. In saying this I have only been doing it since last Thursday and he has gone to sleep. The first day it took 1/2 hour but for the other 6 days he has been asleep within 10 mins. Admittedly not always the right way around in the cot, but it looks oh so cute. I just go in when he is asleep and cover him with a blanket. Not sure if its much help but if they are tired they will sleep. I know I was pretty damn scared and put it off for so long. I'm glad I finally took the plunge. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 8:59pm
Sorry Anna, I giggled when I read your reply - shes a little monkey!! Strap her feet down somehow????  I think you should maybe try her without and see how she goes. Hopefully, like Mummy2one's DS, she will go to sleep. If only Ashleigh would...------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 9:46pm
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I know what you mean Anna! This morning Ollie pushed out of his with his feet too.
Our problem is that he rolls in it and then wakes up stuck on his tummy. I keep holding off not using it so that he won't crawl all around in his cot and stand up. He has a sleeping back but still moves around all over the show in that - I guess at least he is warm. Mummy2ones post was encouraging. I guess sometime we will just have to take the plunge... |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 10:18pm
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i've never used one before but friends have said they put the pin thru the safety sleep and their clothes so they are literally fastened in.
or you could sell it and buy a baby ok.... it is like a sleeping bag but attached to the sheet so the kids can roll over but they cant go anywhere else nor stand up. i had one for toby and it was great. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 10:45pm
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Paris did that, we used it till fairly late as she was a wriggly sleeper and would have fallen out of her big bed had we not used it.
It's a new thing, it's a novelty, she'll either think "hey i can do this, i'll keep doing it" or she'll be over it as soon as it started, Try taking it off. If there isn't the focus on her doing this new exciting thing she's found she can do, maybe she might just go back to going to sleep again.. hopefully... although, i am really not sure how i can help. Paris just stopped doing it one day.  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 10:59pm
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Good luck with the sleeping bag! It frustrates the gremlins no end that they can't crawl about as freely as they'd like in their sleeping bags, they were shocking day time sleepers until Louise at the Sleep Store recommended using the sleeping bags for all sleeps, not just at night like I was doing.
Fingers crossed! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Anna
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 6:21am
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We have a sleeping bag and I wouldn't be without it anymore! I find Kaias sleeping has improved so much with it! Am going to try Emmas trick and use it for all sleeps too, that never occured to me!
And with the safety sleep thing, maybe it is time to give it up. Fighting with her will only frustrate you and annoy her. Quinn was a shocker and crawling around in his cot and standing up (not as early as 10 months tho!! Go Brenna) and after many fristrations I found the best way to deal with it was to put him to bed, make sure all was safe and leave him to it, he eventually fell asleep after playing. ------------- Anna http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 8:52am
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Thomas hasnt ever had a safety sleep, we put him in a sleeping bag ... he still crawls around the cot, stands up, dances, plays, but he does go to sleep eventually (usually within 20 minutes. )
He goes to sleep laying in which ever position he crashes in and I usually just move him back if he is too scrunched up or bent over (Ive gone in and he has been sitting and literally just fallen forward bent at the waist in half sound asleep!) The bag is great - stops him from falling asleep with his legs hanging through the bars etc .... Maybe your girl has just out grown the Safety Sleep  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lottieandharry
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 1:00pm
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We used the safety sleep until Charlotte starting wriggling round in it and undoing it I can't remeber how old she was. It was about the time she was learning to pull up on stuff around 9months?? In the end set aside a week where I didn't go anywhere and prepared for the worst!!!
She is a stubborn wee thing and it did take nearly a week for her just to be put down and let her do her thing til she fell asleep. I spent the first two days going in and lying her down when she stood up then thought stuff this you can work it out yourself!! Now at 17months she has books and all her soft toys in bed with her and she just chats and reads until she falls asleep. Has been so much easier than having to cart safety sleep everywhere we go. It is hard to take the plunge for these sorts of things as you worry it will stuff up all the hard work you have done. But if you prepare for a few hard days it will ususally be worth it or you could be like mummy2one and be pleasantly surprised how well it goes!! Best of luck with whatever you decide to do, we are all here to support you with whatever you choose to do!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 6:19pm
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Well, I was forced to go cold turkey today - her nappy leaked last night so it was all wet!
It took her 50 mins to go to sleep this morning and 1 hour this arvo which I don't think is too bad as I didn't think she'd sleep at all! So, for tonight I've got my fingers crossed ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 20 July 2008 at 1:03pm
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bumped for SimSam ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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