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!