We started this rehab program thinking at the most it would take a couple of weeks to be 100% swaddle free. Little did I know addiction to this "miracle blankets" (aka baby crack) required much more time (and patience).
I'm not brave enough to tackle nights yet, so they continue to be fully swaddled at night. As for naps I've got Alex doing great and Lucas, not so much.
I think Lucas thinks that if he can see his hands that means it's party time. So he'll lay there, talk to his hands for hours and then he'll get VERY cranky because guess what? he missed all his naps!. There are times he eventually falls sleep and is up 15 minutes later, waking up Alex (who really does not appreciate being woken up in the middle of a perfectly good nap!).
So for now I've decided to start swaddling Lucas with one arm out for naps. Maybe one crazy hand out is not as interesting as two!
I owe you guys an update on their 4 months...which may just be combined with the 5 month update at this point!.
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Wow! They're so big!
That's one thing that the little man NEVER liked. He was perfectly happy at birth and when they cleaned him up and swaddled him, he instantly started screaming. I asked the nurses if it was possible that he didn't like it and they said, "oh no! ALL babies NEED to be swaddled.. it's comforting to them". NOT in our case. He screamed the entire time he was swaddled. Soon as I got into my recovery room, I immediately unswaddled him and he immediately stopped crying. The nurses would come in to check on him (and me) and would swaddle him back up and guess what.. he'd start screaming again. So I'd tell them to just leave him un-swaddled and I'd take it off. He NEVER took to swaddling.
I swaddled my girls until about 5 months. When they could roll over in the swaddle I knew it was time to quit...and time to sleep in separate cribs. We only ever swaddled at night and kept nap times separate, but I never successfully had crib nap time until about 5 months either! Until that point, I had to hold them for all naps, but that was okay because it forced me to nap with them rather than playing on the computer or other things. Hang in there! We stuck to a strict nap/bedtime schedule and we've never had to rock the girls to sleep or struggle with sleeping since we got the nap down!
Oh, I hated breaking the swaddle! Daycare made us do it...and it was awful. I did it gradually at home and it helped a lot (one arm at at time for a couple days).
Good luck.
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