Mariko is a swaddle addict. She takes all her naps and sleeps at night in a swaddle and always has. I think that we are getting to the point of needing to stop swaddling her - as she can now roll over in the swaddle. We have tried stopping before and it didn't work. She flails and cries and even if she does get to sleep, she doesn't sleep very long because she moves so much in her sleep. I bought a Zipadee Zip sleep sack which has enclosed hands and is supposed to be a transition to stop swaddling. She's too small for it and it's still too much freedom so we put a lose swaddle blanket on the outside or inside. We will see how it all goes.
Also, naps. Mariko has always been a 45 minute napper. For the longest time she was taking 4-45 minute naps and then dropped to 3. Now she's taking a long nap (usually during nap 1 or 2 time) and then taking 2 other short naps throughout the day. However, over the last couple of days, she's gone to taking one short nap and one long nap! And last night she slept 13 hours. I only let her sleep in that long because it helped with going to Stroller Strides class this morning. I really don't want her to be a "all sleeping at night, no nap" kid so I think I may need to start waking her up in the morning. I think that two naps is ok for her at this point as long as she doesn't try to give up the late afternoon short one (which she does sometimes when she has taken a short first nap and long second one). It would be great for her to sleep from say 10-11:30 and then 1:30 or 2-3:00. That sounds fantastic. I'm going to work on that ;-)
Anyway, the adventure continues! Everyday is an adventure with her!
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