FREEDOM!!!

Graycen HAS been an excellent sleeper – waking just once a night to eat – until 4 weeks ago.  Since her first night in the hospital, Graycen has been swaddled at night.  She is quite the mover and flailer and needed to be “contained” in order to sleep….until, a month ago when she started to break free from her swaddle.  (She is quite the little Houdini).  As soon as she broke free, she would wake herself up and begin the nighttime fussiness.  I would quietly go to her room to re-swaddle her and shush her back to sleep.  Although, she’d quickly fall back to sleep, she would break free again a few hours later.  I decided that she wasn’t ready to sleep un-swaddled just needed a larger swaddle.  So, I went out and purchased a new/larger swaddle blanket.  No luck…

Many sleepless nights later, Garrett and I decided to start weaning her from the swaddle, starting with just one arm.  The frequent wakes up continued, but we chalked it up to adjustment.  After a week of the “one arm swaddle” and frequent wake ups, we decided to just leave both arms out.  Apparently, this is what she wanted along – FREEDOM!!!  She woke just once to eat J  Fingers crossed that we have another sleep-filled night!