So I had this brilliant idea that Sarah should be ready to sleep without being swaddled. Worst idea I have had to date. Big, big mistake. Sarah has been sick, so she hasn't been able to sleep through the night. I thought since I wasn't getting much sleep anyway( I was waking up twice a night with her)I should try to wean Sarah off the swaddle. Hannah was off the swaddle before she was 4 months old. Sarah is 4 1/2 months old so she should be ready, right? Nope!
Saturday night I put Sarah down after her bottle without a swaddle. Midnight, she's up, 12:30 up, 1:30, you guessed it, up! 1:50, starts crying. Let's wait it out......Jim gets up( thinks problem solved). 2:30 up. 3:30, I give up. Swaddled again. She can't do it. Oh, and we're meeting my parents at 11:30. Let's not forget, 6:30, she's up! And my day began. It was a rough Sunday morning.
My next bright idea was to see if the daycare was putting Sarah in her crib for nap time. We don't(we're usually on the go), so maybe they don't either. Wrong! Sarah sleeps in her crib every nap. Hmmm, what could my problem be. Well, according to Ms. Jill, Sarah likes to hold onto a blanket. She's big on covering her eyes. I knew this, but I didn't think it was a must have in her life. Again, wrong!
I picked Sarah up early on Monday, and where was she? In her crib asleep. It seems my daughter likes to sleep on her side, tightly gripping a blanky. This is how she sleeps without a swaddle. What do you do if your baby is too young to sleep with a blanket at night and is getting too big and strong to be swaddled? Get a better swaddle!
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All of our girls were blankie girls. Around 3-4 mounths I let them start sleeping with the blankets Betty knitted (the ones that are more loosely knit)--that way if they pulled them over their head they could still breathe through all the holes. But I am kind of a rule breaker on those things;) Good luck with her--I can't beleive that she is getting so big.
It seems so long ago that I was having this same problem with David! He uses a sleep sack now. I don't remember how I switched him, but boy did those swaddling blankets get tugged on and stretched as I tried to get them to - please - just -fit - around him!
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