We decided on Monday that enough was enough! We started swaddling her from birth, the hospital teaches you. We never stopped, or actually, we didn't know HOW to stop. She slept so nice wrapped up tight...why would we risk ruining her 12 hours of sleep per night!? Even her pediatrician said "if it's not broken, don't fix it" and gave us the ok to swaddle her till she was good at rolling (she could suffocate herself is she rolled over swaddled).
Well, the last time my mom was here she babysat so we could go on a date. She could NOT swaddle Avy as tight as we can, heck, no one can! Also, it's impossible for her to fall asleep away from home, she would startle herself awake because she couldn't control the reflexes and wasn't used her her hands being free. And I was tired of fighting with her at night, getting her into the swaddle. So on Monday we decided to stop swaddling her, cold turkey. Night one was alittle rough. She was asleep when I put her down so that wasn't too bad. She did wake up a few times for a couple minutes crying. But at about 12:30am she started screaming bloody murder and did so for about 25 minutes! I knew she was ok, but it was so hard to not go and get her. She has done progressively better with each passing night. She still wakes up, cries for 1-3 minutes and falls back to sleep. All in all, it seems to be successful so far!
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