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| WOW! Just take a deep breath! Isn't it amazing how a baby changes you? I was and still check on my daughter! I am sure you are doing everything right, it is all scary cause it is all new etc... I would say to keep swaddling her, or get a Halo gown, there are other brands too. Once she is rolling over, you will still worry, but the risk totally decreases at that point, and decreases even more after 6 months. |
| posted by on 10/29/2008 11:32 PM
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| Thank you so much! I will be getting the halo gown this weekend. I really appreciate your insight. Thank you again! I just need to learn to relax, but the problem is that i don't know how too. |
| posted by Jen on 10/29/2008 11:59 PM
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| I did the same thing. I checked on my daughter a thousand times a night it seems. I bought the Halo gown and I got one of the sleep postioners for her bed. But even then I still worried about everything. So I talked with her doctor. (Our doctor is great.) I sat in the room telling him all I was doing and the things that I had done. He told me all the info that I had pulled off the web gave me some more info and then put my mind at ease by saying just this. "You are a good mom, all good moms worry about everything. Don't worry so much and enjoy the fact that you have a healthy, happy baby." That did it for me. My daughter just had her first birthday on the 20th and she is doing great. So I can say to you. "Your a good mom, all good moms worry about everything. Don't worry so much and enjoy the fact that you have a happy, healthy baby." Trust me, your daughter will be moving soon enough and that is just a whole new set of worries. Your doing a great job. |
| posted by Carley on 10/30/2008 12:24 AM
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| I kept Nina in our bedroom in the pack and play until just recently. I needed to hear her breathe, she hated being swaddled and the outgrew the sleep positioner overnight. I still worry and check on her a ton of times at night. One thing I learned though is after I had Nina the pediatrician in the hospital said that sleeping with a pacifier also helps prevent SIDS so even though I didn't plan on giving her one she got one. Get a monitor and set it really loud so you can hear if she rolls over. |
| posted by Erin on 10/30/2008 12:55 AM
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| I worried too when my girl was that age. I just got a monitor and turned it up loud so I could hear her breathing. She didn't really sleep in her crib all that much when until she was around 3 months (slept in a bouncy seat, her car seat, wherever she fell asleep, we just left her because she was SO hard to get to sleep!). She's 2 now, in a big girl bed, and doing wonderful! It is normal to worry. We've all been there! |
| posted by Katie on 10/30/2008 09:37 AM
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| Thank you all so much! All of your words helped. I am a worrier by nature but now with my daughter it has gotten worse. I just want her to be kept safe and SIDS scares me so badly. I have her sleeping in her pack n play right beside our bed. How long do you think I should keep her in it? Her room is all the way down the hall. I've heard you should keep your child in your room for 6 months to a year? I am getting the halo for her to sleep in this weekend and she does take a pacifier. i'm just scared.I love her more than anything in this world and i want to protect her. Thank you again!! |
| posted by Jen on 10/30/2008 09:46 AM
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| We took her out of our room at 2 months. Our Dr said it would be best for the baby and us because our sleep is disturbed by her little movements and her sleep is disturbed by our little movements. So for us all to sleep better, she went into her room and we got a monitor. |
| posted by Katie on 10/30/2008 12:47 PM
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| If you doing everything that research suggests to prevent SIDS there's a good chance it won't happen. Admit to yourself after this point you're powerless over it. It's time to put it out of your mind and focus on something more useful like enjoying motherhood! |
| posted by Ashley on 10/30/2008 01:15 PM
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I know it is scary!!!! My daughter slept next to me in her infant car seat I just put a towel underneath to lean it back a little. Since my daughter was born in the winter I kept the bundle me on the car seat and used that as a blanket and she wore a sleep and play. The car seat was good because it help with digestion and she could not hurt herself in it. My ob recomended it, worked great for 4 months...than she moved to the crib.
good luck! |
| posted by Marya on 10/30/2008 01:45 PM
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| Don't worry so much! I know exactly how you feel, because for the first few weeks, Austin wouldn't sleep anywhere but right next to me in bed, and I was too ill to get out of bed to get him, and trust me I never slept a wink worrying. But once they are in their own bed, and you are swaddling (a great trick) and especially once they're past six weeks, you can't worry all the time. You have to trust that you're doing everything you can and you sound like a great mom. |
| posted by Abigail on 10/30/2008 02:09 PM
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| if it makes you feel any better, we co-sleep with our DD, and she is absolutely fine! They also have sleep positioners (available at babies r us) that snuggle the baby on both sides, in a comfortable sleep "position" so you don't have to worry about her rolling over, or the swaddle blanket getting in her face. |
| posted by nicole on 10/30/2008 02:23 PM
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| I know this is going to sound weird but it totally worked for my husband and me. I had a really big boy (9.2 lbs.) but he still looked so small in his big crib. SIDS also frightened me. We had a little fisher price seat (not a bouncer but an actually chair - http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=2011&e=detail&selcat=bgb&pid=31327). He slept in that till he was three months old and btw still uses it at 18 months to watch his videos, etc. Not only was he not able to roll over during the night but we could carry that chair around that house (carefully of course) while he was sleeping. It came to be the best purchase ever. Good luck and this is just the beginning of the worries! |
| posted by Heather on 10/30/2008 06:30 PM
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| btw...bought that infant positioner thingy from babies r' us (the most expensive one). It was the most dangerous thing in the crib!! It was such a waste of money and it sooo dangerous. The baby could actually slip down and it can roll over on them like a pillow. |
| posted by Heather on 10/30/2008 06:34 PM
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