February 16, 2011 3 months old
My greatest fear at having another baby was not sleeping. I need my 8 hours of sleep, and with a newborn and three other children, sleep is something that you don't get a whole lot of. So before Ruth was born, I read several books on getting your newborn to sleep (none of which were super helpful...).
The best suggestion I found was to swaddle your baby. I never swaddled the other kids. Since they were all so little, when the nurses in the hospital brought me my swaddled baby, I would unwrap her and put her against my chest. Once we got home, I just never thought that swaddling would make any difference. I think maybe I was torturing myself!
My friend gave me this swaddling blanket. It is so much better at keeping the baby swaddled than just a regular blanket. It has Velcro tabs to keep the baby securely wrapped. It was amazing the difference in little Ruth's sleep once I started swaddling her. Within a few weeks, she was up to sleeping 10 hours straight at night! Miraculous for this mama! (And then she got sick, and so much for my sleep, but that's a whole other story...)
One day Ruth was in her bassinet and woke up from her nap. Miriam (who was studying ancient Egypt in school) heard her fussing and excitedly asked me, "Mom, can I un-mummify Ruth? I know how!"
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That is the only way our boys go to sleep. They will not go to sleep any other way. We still wrap them up and they are almost 1 year old. We are starting to wonder when we will be able to just lay them in bed without being wrapped up. They do sleep much better though, so we will just keep doing it until they don't like it anymore. Sleep is something that you have to have. Without it I am so grumpy.
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