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July 2014 Moms
Transitioning out of swaddle
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Re: Transitioning out of swaddle
Might be looking into this sleep suit thing... Is it a "magical sleep suit" or "Merlin's sleep suit"? Or are they the same?
The best part about the suit is that is makes it easy to put her down in the crib drowsy and not have her freak out and wake herself up all the way. On the off chance she does startle I can usually just put my hand on her head and "shhhh" her and she'll go back to sleep because she's not flailing all over the place. Looking back, this was where the trouble started with DS. He would wake up EVERY. DAMN. TIME. and start thrashing, so there was no way to ever achieve "drowsy but awake". He never learned to fall asleep in the crib, thus every time he woke up in the night, he needed to be held to go back to sleep. OK with a four month old, no longer fun with a 10 month old.
It's also helped make the transition from the RNP to the crib really easy. I was able to basically take her cold turkey to the crib with the suit. Prior to that, I'd be trying a slow transition. She'd be OK for morning naps in the crib, but there was no way she'd go into the crib for an afternoon nap. Nighttime, she'd go on the crib for the first stretch of sleep, but not for the others. With the suit, I've not had to put her in the RNP or our bed at all.
The suit has also helped cut down the number of wakings and extend the time between wakings. I get an additional 2 hours or so on every sleep stretch which is awesome. She's still getting up twice a night, but at this point, atleast one of those wakings is because she's genuinely hungry, so I wouldn't expect the suit to solve that.
Final verdict: worth the $$. I'll probably buy another in the next size up as well.
So we started using the SleepSuit on Sunday night. Since her sleep's been crappy anyway, I decided why not. Her sleep recently has been go down 7:30-8, wake at 10:30-11 and eat then back down, then up every hour until 2 or 3 when I just give up and bring her into bed with me. Also, she's not been resettling herself like she used to be able to do.
First night of sleepsuit: Bed at 7:30, fussed and resettled herself at 9ish, up to eat at 10:30, fussed and resettled at 11:30, up at 1 to eat, then up every hour. Slight improvement.
Last night (second night): Bed at 8. Up at 12 to eat. Up at 1. Up at 2. Then up at 4 (2 hour stretch is seriously a win, you guys). Improvement over the previous night.
Fingers crossed that we see more improvement tonight. All the reviews I've read said that it's not an immediate thing and may take a few (or more) nights to see a huge improvement, but I feel like we're on the way there.
Also, we keep our house 68-70 and she seemed comfortable in a cotton footed sleeper underneath the suit.
Edited to change her wake time to 4, not 3 for last night.
Well, we live in CO, so right now it gets down into the 30 and 40s at night pretty consistently. In the summer, it usually gets down into the 60s at night unless we're going through a heat wave.
Mom to one beautiful July '14 little girl
Better! She went 8-11, which isn't great for a first stretch but she was really hungry (emptied both sides). Back down at 11:15 and up again at 2:40. This is the longest stretch I have ever gotten after her initial waking. She went back down at 2:50 and then was back up a little after 4 (slightly bleh with this, but oh well) and that's when I brought her into bed with me. She was working on a ginormous poo, though and that makes her angry. We'll see what tonight brings.
In a nutshell, we are seeing improvement every night, so hopefully she'll get back to her old ways (8-2 or so) or better soon. She still does get her feet balled up in the suit, but I don't think it really bothers her.