March 31, 2014

Sleep?

Sean was a pretty good sleeper during his 3rd month...about 7-8 solid hours. he's been sleeping in a miracle blanket swaddle since we was about 3 months. he hit a normal 4 month sleep regression, but unfortunately at nearly 6 months old hasn't gone back. he's up 2-3 times a night and still needs a bottle to fall asleep. We tried transitioning out of the swaddle and that has gone horrible. he wakes up every couple hours again. Even if he isn't waking us up that often, i can tell he's not sleeping well b/c he is more tired during the day. We have been swaddling again the past few nights and while feeding him tonight, I looked into how we can transition him from the swaddle. Before today, the way that seem to be thought was the best was to swaddle him with one arm out. Well, the first night we did that he used that one arm to paddle himself around 90 degrees. then we though let's just try no swaddle. well, he fell a sleep faster but did one of these three things:

  • roll on his stomach, turn 90 degrees, and dangle his legs through the crib
  • roll on his stomach and practice his crying push ups
  • do the backwards worm from one end of the crib to another
so, like i said...tonight I was looking for another solution and a new thing popped up in my search..the zippadeezip. Normally, I would pass this off as another gimmikee baby product...but when we needed sean to sleep when he was younger, I gave in a bought the $40 miracle blanket and it worked - the woman who makes these things personally recommends the miracle blanket and designed her sleep sac as a transition from that. so, since dan is out tonight..i might do some online shopping ;)

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