So, there may be an upside to the fact that Rebecca can’t seem to fully kick this stomach bug.
Though she seems just fine during the day, twice in the last few nights she has woken up at 11pm or so and puked all over the place (read: all over M, as I was sleeping…). Not fun, feel badly for her. However…
Last night, M brought her downstairs to where he was, got her cleaned up and changed into new PJs, and placed her in the Pack & Play, presumably while he went to switch laundry or something. When he came back, she was asleep. Unswaddled. Hrm.
Lucky M, she woke up an hour or two later with an explosive poop incident. Again, clean up, change. M put her in new PJs and back in her sleep sack, and decided to put her back upstairs in her crib with her pacifier. And there she slept. Unswaddled.
Oh sure, she woke up needing a pacifier replacement once or twice. But she slept. Unswaddled. And today? Two naps. Unswaddled. Tonight? Unswaddled.
Seriously? After all that? I have so many posts about my trials and tribulations with swaddling I’m not even going to link them all. I was all geared up to Ferberize this weekend, a main aim being to get them out of the swaddle (and I think we still will for Daniel, who is not giving in so gently). And then Rebecca just decides she’s ready. Well, I’ll be damned. Can’t take a lick of credit for it. She was just ready. Hey, I’ll take it!
Wow! I’m glad you’ve had something good come out of this recent illness. We ferberized one twin but the other just had to figure stuff out on his own.
we also ferberized our twins. and deswaddled in steps. once they started shimmying down in the swaddle to where i walked in their room and thought their heads were missing (can’t actually happen, don’t worry), we transitioned to the “under-the-arm” modified swaddle. worked well. now we’re swaddle-free and using blankets (14months). AND sleeping. good times!
Hi, I just jumped over here… somehow, I can’t remember from where
But I’m a mom of twins who are only a few weeks older than your two. feel free to stop by and say hi twomanybabies.blogspot.com
I’ll be around
Jeanne