we have swaddled jack since he was born for his nighttime sleep - the past few months we have only swaddled his legs for naptime....lately the nights have been getting worse, as in he has been waking up every 2 hours needing to be re-swaddled. this is not good, especially for daddy who is the only one who can swaddle him tight enough so he is the one to have to get up and take care of jack all night long (at least thats what mama made him believe, tricky tricky)....basically jack is just too strong for the swaddle now, and wakes himself up when he breaks out of it....
so on advice from aunt julie (who always seems to be giving us scary advice that works!) we decided to quit the swaddle cold turkey - we were preparing for 3-4 + nights of no sleep, with jack being unable to sleep without the swaddle - on tuesday night i asked our whole small group to pray for the transition and phil and i prayed before we put jack down - it turns out jack did GREAT without the swaddle - he slept better than he had in days....i think we only had to get up once to put him back to sleep! it was amazing.....the next night we were also prepared for a bad night, thinking the good night may have just been a coincidence - but the next night i woke up at 4:00 am waking phil up to ask him if he had heard anything from jack all night! of course i had to check to make sure he was ok and he was fine - just sleeping in his sleep sack all night long with no swaddle! he woke up to eat at 5 which has been somewhat of a trend lately, but then went back to sleep until 8:30! he is doing such a great job sleeping! right now he is taking a nap with no swaddle - it is hard for him to get to sleep because he will be almost sleeping and then his legs and arms with flail all over the place and startle him, waking him up - but after 3-4 times he settles down to sleep....his naps aren't very long lately but i am hoping he will keep learning to stretch them out.....
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