Sleeping Arrangements

Every night when we put Clara to sleep, we are swaddling her. Rob and I have been talking about needing to transition out of using the swaddle blanket as we don't want to use it once she starts rolling over on a more regular basis.

Last Thursday night, I decided spur of the moment to stop swaddling Clara.  We did our usually night time routine, except that I didn't swaddle her.  She went down with a little crying, but feel asleep. She got up in the middle of the night as usual, but I was had no problems getting her back down.

Crying a little, but after a few minutes fell asleep.

Friday night, we went without the swaddle again.  It took a little longer to get her down and she was up shortly again, but then went down and slept through the night.

I had originally written this post on Saturday and thought I saved it to come back and finish it, but guess I didn't.

Snoozing Friday night (not swaddled) Arms splayed out

Well it turns out that by writing the original post, I think I jinxed us, as we had a horrible night Saturday and after 3 hours of trying to get Clara down and crying (both myself and Clara), I gave up and swaddle her.  The minute she was swaddled, she was out cold.

Rob and I chatted about it and decided that we would try a half swaddle, just her arms.  That seemed to work and we have had no issues getting her down the next couple of nights.  After doing a little online research, we found a few places that suggested trying a sleep sack as a transitioning mechanism.  On Tuesday, we bought a sleep sack and we tried it for the first time last night.  Seemed to work well.  Fingers crossed, we will see how that goes!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from the Clara bug.  We are all having a wonderful snowy day and hope you are as well.  Notice my beautiful flowers that I got from the best husband ever!