September 21, 2008
Update on the swaddling thing
It’s been a little rocky for a few days, but Anna is doing much better now. The first night she only got about 6 hours total sleep in about 3 spurts, poor thing. But last night she only woke up crying once, and then she slept through the rest of the night until 8:45 this morning! And she’s taken some pretty good naps, too.
So she’s at the point where she’ll sleep unswaddled; now we just need to get her to go to sleep unswaddled. With the swaddle, we could just rock her for a few minutes, put her in the crib sleepy but awake, and she would fall asleep on her own. But for right now, she has to be totally zonked out when we transfer her to the crib. We had such a good thing going, and I hope to get it back soon. She has fallen asleep unswaddled on her own twice, so I know she’s capable of it.
1 step forward 5 steps back. always!
she’ll get it!