Hi everyone,
I’m a first time mom and my baby boy is currently 7 weeks old. I barely get any sleep at night. Not because he’s crying, but because he is (almost) constantly wiggling and grunting while sleeping. He sleeps in a bassinet next to our bed.
He has always been like this. I’ve tried swaddling and it seems to help a little bit. Sometimes he just sleeps, sometimes he just wakes up and grunts.
We hired a night nanny a few times a week, so that I can sleep on my own without hearing his wiggling and grunting all night. She said that he is the wiggliest baby she’s ever seen. Just throwing his arms and legs around all night.
I’ve tried putting him in different sleeping positions throughout the day. Sometimes I try letting him sleep on his side or his tummy (Supervised). But that doesn’t seem to help his constant movement. Even when I try to let him nap on me, tummy to tummy, he is just kicking his feet. But once he’s asleep, he could sleep for hours on me without wiggling at all. The bassinet is the true wiggle station.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Is this normal? I am feeling kind of unsure now that the nanny said she’s never seen a wiggly baby like that.