Ah, the power of the swaddle

Last night and yesterday were a bit rough. Sarah was up almost all day from shortly after I left for work until shortly before I got home, making her awake time a whopping 7 hours! She is never like this! Not that it is a bad thing, but she became overly tired and would not fall asleep last night. We tried feeding her and she ate a bit, but didn't want to continue. We also changed her and made sure she was dry and clean. I also tried to just lay her on my chest, which we found she really likes when she is sleeping. She slept for about 30 minutes, until I had to get up and go to bed. I laid her down, and she woke up.

This obviously was not going to work since I am fighting a cold, and have to get up and go to work. Also, it's unfair to Karen to have Sarah all night every night, and she was just tired. Karen suggested swaddling Sarah to see if that would calm her down.

It's funny, Claire and I were just discussing how to do this the "proper" way the other night. I've never really been a big fan of doing this, I thought it was cruel to an extent since I know Sarah loves to have her hands up at her face, and in order to properly do this, you need to wrap them so tight that they can't move.

I decided to give this a try, and low and behold, 5 minutes after wrapping her, she was sound asleep and stayed that way for most of the night. Guess I'll keep that in my bag of tricks for later use.