Jack loves his swaddle. He’s been sleeping in it for … well, since he was born.
It calms him and makes him fall asleep faster than you can snap. And you can snap pretty darn fast.
A couple weeks ago though, he started his best Houdini impersonation and was escaping it and the swaddle seemed to be keeping him awake. We decided it was time to ditch the swaddle and go for the pajamas.
Without the swaddle, he’s literally ALL over the crib. Getting his arms stuck. Rolling from one end to another. (If he’s awake, you can not get him to figure out how to get something just out of his grasp, in the crib though he probably goes back and forth a distance equal to one mile.) Even the famous, butt in the air pose!
He had a couple good nights in PJs, but for the most part he didn’t sleep well. Plus, he’s a tummy sleeper and if you know the SIDS people, they’ll tell you that your child will die if he sleeps on his tummy.
Anyway, we decided to go back for the swaddle.
It was amazing. All of the sleeping problems disappeared!!
However, as Jack gets stronger, he has combined the steadiness of sleep in the swaddle with the crazy movement of PJs. That means he’s rolling over in the swaddle. That’s not good, because he doesn’t have hands… so now we’re back in just the PJs. It’s the first night. It’s 11pm as I type this… and guess who just started screaming in his PJs. Good night everyone!
2 Comments:
Oh he's the cutest! And I'm terrified...yet another thing I didn't know about babies...I thought you swaddled them in their PJs. I failed the test again...
I thought you swaddled them in their pjs too!
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