Day Light Savings

I don't normally panic when it comes to Day Light Savings, but I am now a mother of an eight month old.

I did absolutely no preparation for this night! I've been browsing some websites and each of then suggest slowly keeping your infant up later by making their bedtime 15 minutes later each day. Sounds completely logical, so why didn't I think of preparation sooner?

The last two nights at our house have been pretty hairy anyways! Right now I'm chalking it up to a calorie-catch-up wake up call. Lately Monster has been less and less interested with his bottles and more interested in eating solids.

Ultimately I am OK with a slow self weening process, however I am not OK with a midnight bottle wake up call. I give virtual high fives to each and every mother who has to deal with this on a regular basis, and yes I realize how terribly spoiled I sound by even complaining about it! I'm sorry!

After the last two nights why not add on another couple of days of strange sleep patterns on top?


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Breaking the Swaddle

I was recently browsing my home board over at whattoexpect.com and a common thread I've noticed over the last month or so has been breaking the swaddle.

For those of you out there who don't know (or remember) what a swaddle is, it's the way of wrapping your infant in a blanket tightly. The swaddle wraps the infants arms and legs tight against their body to resemble the confined comfort of the mothers womb. Most newborns will calm and fall asleep as soon as they are swaddled. See Video Here (Thank you, youtube.com)

The issue most parents face once their infant begins to roll over is that they are no longer comfortable swaddling them because of the suffocation risk. If your infant is used to being swaddled in order to assist sleep you might also experience difficulty putting your infant to sleep once your atop swaddling them.

Luckily this isn't something I'm dealing with. When Monster was born he was huge, 9lbs 6oz huge. All of the light receiving blankets I had were far too small to swaddle him. Not only was (is) he huge but like me, he is also very hot bodied. Even in March if he was over dressed he would sweat like crazy, which basically made it impossible to swaddle him with his larger, heavier blankets.

Even if he had proper blankets, I'm not sure the swaddle would have worked for Monster anyways. He has always been so strong and broke his arms and legs out of the wrap.

With our lack of options, we just did not swaddle him once he was out of the hospital. All of the sleep issues my March Mommy friends are dealing with now, I dealt with way back in March. I'm still sympathetic to them, but I am glad it's something I naively dealt with ahead of time. One less thing to worry about now.