Spontaneous Sleep!

So Aaron never goes to sleep by himself.  I either have to put him in the sling, breastfeed him or lie down with him, but just now he'd been in his Fisherprice Jumperoo for ages so I picked him up and put him on my chest while I carried on on the computer.  Next I know he's giggled to himself and spontaneously fallen asleep.  NO crying, and so so cute :-)

but the downside..... we were up twice in the night last night...

Liska xxx

Swaddling

Hi,

Point 18, from my earlier post...

So from the day we got home, Aaron was straight in his cot; no moses basket for us.  And thank God I didn't buy one... He was so large (9 lbs 10 oz at birth) the moses basket would have lasted days or no more than weeks....

So we arrived back from hospital, put him in his cot and he slept for HOURS - he was at home... both in body and mind.  See pic, which was taken on THE DAY He arrived home from hospital:

I had been in hospital for a week, so I think both swaddles were in the wash (the 2 you see pictured below), so in the photo I simply used a blanket and swaddled old style.  In the next photo I will show you what I did everyday after that... i.e. cotton swaddle blanket (i.e. shaped for swaddling) plus surrounded in the above blanket rolled into a sausage for added comfort and the snug factor... :-)  The right hand side of the sausage is under his shoulder to elevate one side as I was paranoid about him choking on reflux (or whatever you call that stuff)... being a new Mum, you're always extra worried...  I put that sausage round him for every sleep - didn't matter if it was day or night, and he would stay as neat as that for hours until he'd wake and then start kicking everything :-)

I had two swaddle blankets, both cotton, both light and ideal for my Summer baby.  They were both from the gro company famous for their Gro Bags.  The design above is called Grand Day Out.  Edit: that was 2010 and they now no longer stock it, current range of swaddles is here: Gro Store Swaddles.

I think I swaddled Aaron right up to about 14 weeks.  He just didn't sleep as well without...

I never ever swaddled him till he was ALREADY asleep... I have never understood Mums who say they swaddled the baby and then he fell asleep - that would not work with Aaron, as he would kick his way out of it.

That's how you'd know he was awake in the morning, he'd be there with this look of complete satisfaction on his face, having successfully kicked his legs out :-)

Now, on 2nd December I am adding to this post with a photo to show that I swaddled Aaron in hospital toooooo. This is the other of the 2 Gro swaddle blankets I had:

Bye for now, Liska xx