This week has been a real doozy. We have been having sleep problems for about 10 days and decided to break the swaddle cold turkey and tackle the middle-of-the-night bottle.
The first few days and nights were not good. Logan basically didn’t know how to sleep without his swaddle. On Saturday, he literally didn’t sleep all day except in the car for some short rides. He was surprisingly happy all day though. At night, he woke up 2-3 times for the weekend.
Once we got passed the weekend, he was at least falling asleep without the swaddle, but I still have to rock him almost to sleep and it has been taking up to an hour (not good). He is still waking up in the night, but we are working on the swaddle situation first.
In other baby-related news, Logan can push his upper body up like below, and is enjoying his Jumperoo much more. He has learned how to hit the floor with his feet and jump. We also tried oatmeal two times for him, but he didn’t like it, so we will try again another time. It looked pretty gross too.
Next week we are hitting the road/sky again and taking Logan to Dallas to meet all our Dallas friends. And then in a few weeks, he goes to school!
I hope to one day start cooking and baking again and making a weekly meal plan, but it’s very hard to think about that when all my daytime is spent fighting for his naps or trying to entertain him or reading about baby sleep.
We are hoping this sleep thing is just a phase and we will move past it soon! Thank you for your help in the comments and emails!
Breaking of the swaddle was the absolute WORST. We tried cold turkey, but Ella would not sleep longer than 1 hour without it. After 3 days of that we were desperate zombies and we tried 1 arm at a time. I would alternate the arm every other night, then a couple of weeks later we moved to two arms out. Shortly after she got used to 2 arms out we got rid of it and she was surprisingly OK with it gone. It is a phase and you’ll get through it. When she learned to roll over, we dealt with it all over again. I showed her over and over again how to get back on her back by herself and eventually she got there. She now flips around back and front in her sleep, but mostly sleeps on her tummy. I promise he’ll get there!
glad we aren’t the only ones with such a hard time! so much i read is like “just pat your baby back to sleep.” our baby isn’t wired like that!
Also, sticking to a “wind down” routine really helped us. We use a sound machine on ocean waves for both nap and night time. For naps I rock her for just a few minutes until her eyes get heavy, then put her in bed. At night, we put on PJs, read 2 books, then I rock her with ocean waves as she eats her last bottle. These days she falls right asleep on the bottle within 15 minutes, so I set her in bed, stick the paci in and bolt out before she can see me