Around three months he'd outgrown the blankets, but not the need to swaddle, so we bought a swaddleme and used a receiving blanket to pin his arms to the side. This is an escape proof way to swaddle any baby. Every once in a while we'd try putting him down unswaddled. The first thing he'd do is knock his binky out of his mouth and then start rubbing his face. He'd get so worked up that the only way to calm him down was to get him into a swaddle ASAP.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that more and more often, he was falling asleep in my lap. He's also started to move around in the crib a lot while swaddled and I was worried he'd roll over.
We said goodbye to the swaddle on Friday. The first night he rocked him to sleep and then laid him down. He woke up three times the first hour but eventually slept for over an hour unswaddled. It's at that point that we caved and swaddled him loosely for the night.
He's been getting better and better each night. We've completely lost the swaddle for naps and last night he went swaddle free all night.
He woke up three times but instead of giving us the gut wrenching sobs of despair because he wasn't swaddled, he gave the cries of needing his binky. The problem we're dealing with now is he'll spit out his binky and I don't think he gets that he's able to find it and put it back in his mouth.
We've decided to reinsert binky this week and really focus on getting him comfortable sleeping without the swaddle. Next week we'll give him 5-10 minutes to self-soothe and hopefully figure things out.
I predict a few weeks of little to no sleep in my future!
Wish us luck!
