HI
My daughter is going to be 4 months old. I have no problem with the sleep timing she keeps only thing is when she is sleepy she keep moving her head from one side to another. She will keep pulling her ears or hair. She will also keep rubbing her eyes and face so much that many times she gets scratches on her face.And then she will keep crying because scratching and pulling hair and ears do hurt her.She will keep fighting the sleep till she can. One moment I find her asleep and the next moment she is awake and start doing the same things again. sometimes this goes on for almost 1 hr after which she sleeps. Can someone tell me what to do??? how to sooth her so that she sleeps.I have tried singing rocking pacing up and down with her... but still its the same story every time.

Swatts swatts replied. HI Jaya and Roopa
Thank you I will try all that you said amnd see what happens.

Swatts Jaya replied. Hi,
i had same problem.this is a phase and will pass on. make her wear hand mitten so that her fingers dunt hurt her ears,eyes or scratch skin. sometimes babies get aggresive and can hurt themselves.
for my baby a good bath and classical music worked. she would listen to it and sleep. she used to be restless for 45mins to 1.5 hour.it was so tiring for me to make her sleep.
i wld give her bath with jonson and johnson calming body wash, apply calming lotion and thn, will her wear mitten, will put her to my shoulder and some hindi song that has light beats.it was then she used to sleep nicely in 15minutes. now my baby is 7months old and she forgot her ear pulling. she sleeps well.
at 4months dont make your baby remain awake for long hours in evening. 4months baby needs good sleep.
i tried making my baby remain awake from evening onwards but she used to get overtired and will be more fussy to handle.
hope this helps you. Roopa replied. My 4m old baby did the same. Well babies scratch nose and ear when they feel sleepy, but my baby was lil exrta like urs! i took some steps and it has helped.

i keep her nails trimmed and hair cut much above ears. I m not sure, but hair going into our ears tickle us, so i avoid it.
i also got a swing for the baby, well not for her habit of scratching, but i had already planned that for her.
This was around her 3rd onth.
so when i was putting her to sleep, the swinging reduced her habit. she did move head from left to right, scracthed and all, but it got reduced as she got diverted due to swinging.

now, m training her to go to sleep on her own. I keep her awake in evenings, my elder kid and i play with the baby till 9 pm, then i give her a nice feed at 9 30.

The tired baby now with stomach full gets sleepy. Then we play a little more with her.

by that time the baby is damn sleepy. i put her in swing but dont swing it.
toys are hanging above her. she plays with them, gets more sleepy, shakes her head left-right, scratches a little and sleeps!

try it out.

cheers
Roopa