Please recommend a baby sleeping pillow

[ArielRae]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts it was just what I needed. I have calmed down about worrying about him since he can move himself around like he can he should be ok to move if he needs to. We have him sleeping without anything in the crib with him. From all your stories DH and I should be very happy that he will sleep for 2 hours in a clip at times. DH and I have worked out a schedule where we are resposible for him during certain hours so when he needs something the one on duty takes care of it so the other can just relax and sleep until it is their shift. Thanks everyone.

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[McDuck]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts it was just what I needed. I have calmed down about worrying about him since he can move himself around like he can he should be ok to move if he needs to. We have him sleeping without anything in the crib with him. From all your stories DH and I should be very happy that he will sleep for 2 hours in a clip at times. DH and I have worked out a schedule where we are resposible for him during certain hours so when he needs something the one on duty takes care of it so the other can just relax and sleep until it is their shift. Thanks everyone.

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He's adorable!!! Glad you are feeling better about it all. Enjoy it--before you know it he will be so much bigger! I'm still shocked at what my 4-month can do when I think back to newborn time.

 

[2binak]

Your son is adorable!!! Congratulations!!!

By 2 weeks old, our DD could move herself around in the co-sleeper. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen and I've been around tons of babies! We'd put her head at the top of the co-sleeper (12 o'clock) and 20 mins later, her head was at the side (3 o'clock) and she was wide awake! She would do this even while in a tight swaddle. Needless to say, none of us were getting much sleep. The only way she would sleep for a longer period of time was to lay on our bellies while we were sitting upright and leaning back a bit.

So...at 3 weeks old, I put her down for a nap on her belly. She slept for 4 hours! We talked to the pedi and she gave us the ok to put her on her belly during naps, while we were awake and in the room with her. She was then consistently taking 4-5 hour naps. By 5 weeks old, she was belly-sleeping full-time in her crib with an AngelCare Monitor (against pedi's advice). It really was the only way any of us would sleep though. To this day, 2 yrs later, she's a belly sleeper.

ETA - I'm not recommending belly sleeping to the OP as I know it goes against medical advice, I'm just saying that it's what worked for us and our DD and what we chose to do. DD HATED being swaddled, even when nurses & our pedi did it, she hated it.

 

[Wendy5055]

Awwwww....what a handsome little guy!!!!

I can remember having my dd(now 8) sleep in her car seat to make it through the night (I KNEW she was sick!!!), it turned out that she had a double ear infection. The dr. was shocked that we made it through the night and attibuted it to the more upright position of the car seat. His motto was if it worked then do it!

We were also taught at the hospital when our daughter was born how to "swaddle" her...like the pp said, Baby Burrito!!!!! Our dd loved to be swaddled.

 

[vettechick99]

We swaddled DD until she was probably 6 months old. She loved to sleep that way and it was impossible for her to roll over. Are you swaddling? It's a miracle! DD would sleep forever like that - I would have to wake her.