u/cinnbele

Alright y'all. Where do I even begin here :")

My baby girl just turned 3 months today. She'll be 13 weeks tomorrow. She's been sleeping through the night since about 5 weeks old. She started off with about 6-hour stretches and then steadily worked her way up each week and now caps out at around 11 hours of sleep on some nights but typically 9 to 10 hours of straight sleep. She typically takes about three to four naps a day and averages about 4.5 hours of daytime sleep, her bedtime typically ranges from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.

She has been getting very good at holding her head up during tummy time, although she isn't showing any signs of rolling onto her back like lifting up on her forearms or rocking. When she's on her back she will lift her legs straight up at the hips and tilt them over to the side and get onto her side but has not rolled onto her belly.

We have a bunch of velcro swaddles that she has loved up until 2 days ago when she started breaking out of them consistently at night. She typically never has any night wakings but woke me up three times due to breaking out of her swaddle and munching on her hands, waking herself up even more. I decided that it should be time to ditch the swaddle and I had preemptively bought a zippadeezip because I knew that she wouldn't be able to be swaddled forever and people had said pretty good things about it. I got the snuggle band as well and have been using that all of yesterday, last night, and all of today for naps.

It has not been going well to say the very least. She woke up probably around nine times last night, absolutely screaming. Naps have been 25 minutes at the most, and while when she's in her swaddle she will wake up at the 25 to 30 minute mark during her naps, she's able to easily put herself back to sleep. That has since disappeared after ditching the swaddle. Now naps just end at around 25 minutes. Forget going back to sleep.

She got two vaccinations today I had put off so my husband could be there when she got them per his request. I've given her Tylenol preemptively to try to combat any fever or aches she may come down with (with her pediatrician's approval.)

She went down very easy when we got home but only took a 25-minute nap and hasn't been able to fall back asleep since without screaming and crying And I think it's because she has no idea what to do with her limbs, especially because she's so uncomfortable and so overtired at this point. She WILL NOT contact nap, just so you all are aware. In fact, trying to do contact napping usually makes her even more upset.

I can't imagine her nor I getting another terrible night of sleep. Especially not after these vaccinations. Should I wait a few more weeks to unswaddle just to see if she can learn to self-soothe with her hands instead of using them as a distraction and waking herself up even more? I have seen many talk about the wonders that waiting a couple weeks can do when you try to unswaddle. Or the terror that comes with unswaddling too early. Please please help me. Any advice is so welcome.