moving around a lot in sleep - is this normal?

OK - so my 7 month old b/g twins move around a ton in their sleep....is this normal? I mean they do complete 180 turns by the morning ... they are scrunched up in some corner, or completely turned around. This morning at 4:30am my daughter was crying, I went in the room and found her on her stomach stuck in the corner of her crib so I repositioned her, gave her her pacifier and she went back to sleep -- HOWEVER DS was up too (one of them must have woke up each other)...he went back to sleep as well.

Is it normal for them to wake up often at night too and go back to sleep? I sure hope they are getting a good night's rest.

 

Yes, very normal. We ditched the swaddles after the first few days because they seemed miserable in them and they slept great but they were ALL OVER THE PLACE. I had no idea newborns were capable of that much movement. By 7 months, they were into the "I'm standing and I can't get down" phase and I thought none of us would survive all of that waking but it only lasted a week and then they were on to the next thing.

ETA: mine still don't sleep under a blanket like an adult because they aren't still enough to do so. I just use blanket sleepers or sleep sacks and let them wiggle. They rarely fall out of bed.

 

Mine are all over the place, too. DD woke up crying twice last night for the same reason...stuck in a corner on her belly. I hope it passes soon!

 

Mine are in sleep sacks so not in swaddles so they have free range of their body...yeah, who knew they could move so much.

 

Yes, totally normal. DS wriggles around everywhere and now sleeps on his side most nights! I saw DD on her side just now so she must be on her way to "discovering" her cot too! :lol:

 

One of my girls was what I called The Squirmer. She was all over the place. There wasn't a moment that I went to check on her that she wasn't in a completely different posistion and in a completely different part of the bed. My other dd pretty much just stayed in one position all night. To this day they are pretty much still like that although my squirmer has just recently stopped moving around quite as much but she still definitely is a mover. Totally normal.

 

i find my girls in the weirdest positions in the morning as well - totally normal. thankfully though, my girls usually get themselves back to sleep regardless of what position they're in, although it still weirds me out to find D on her stomach as it's so ingrained in me to put them on their backs.

as for the waking a lot at night, that's also very normal. pretty much every time you (general you) move into a light sleep state, you have what's called a partial arousal. this is when we'll roll over, adjust blankets, or whatever & usually go back to sleep without becoming totally conscious. or, if you're thirsty, hungry, or need to go to the bathroom, this is when you'll come fully awake. babies are the same way.

 

Yes, very normal. Mine are just starting to sleep at one end of the crib and stay there for most of the night and they are over 2. They still wake here and there at night and at that age I could hear them on the monitor in the middle of the night babbling.