We always swaddle at night, but occassionally miss priss figures out a way to wiggle one or both arms out. Seems like she's getting better at that recently. So we did the escape proof swaddle (from youtube) last night. I'm a total believer now. She stay swaddled. Also she slept 8.5 hours, woke up to eat, then slept 2 more hours. I'm SOLD.
Re: i'm a believer...
Let me begin by saying that my DD has always had sleep problems. She has never liked the swaddle, not even in the hospital. Even the pediatrician tried to swaddle her, and she broke out screaming in 2 minutes. She refused to sleep on her back, won't nap for more than 20 mins, and still wakes up every 2 hours at night. We started putting her to sleep in her car seat, but even then she'd fuss in her sleep the whole time.
So just for the heck of it I looked up the escape proof swaddle on you tube, totally expecting DD to breakout. Well, she's asleep in her crib, on her back, not making a peep!!! I'm in complete shock!! I called DH at work, and did a literal WOOHOO! Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this!!! I have a feeling we're all going to sleep a lot better tonight.
This look genius and I will def be trying this tonight... LO has been up since 10am this morning because everytime I put him down on his back he wakes up.
Thanks!