The Daily Scream

While we were at a music festival, Grandma and Papa along with the help of Aunt Yacky were brave enough to leave lil Snarf Bebe unswaddled at night. Yes, that’s right, we had a bebe free weekend. We had been leaving him unswaddled on his tummy during daytime naps but we were too chicken to try it for the big night sleep. It seems to be working, mostly. My only gripe so far is that he goes to bed around 7:30/8pm and then wakes up at 11:30pm. Which used to be my time to pump for later. The last two nights I fed him. He seemed hungry. I think I will try just rocking him back to sleep in hopes that he won’t need to eat till 4:00am (his usual time).

Well he’s been super droolie and chomping on everything. Then yesterday Mike noticed a little white dot where teeth will one day be. I tried to take a picture of it but here’s all I got. We’ll see what develops!

We got tickets to Merle Fest for Christmas so I’ve had plenty of time to stash milk. I pump once a night for storage. So far we have 83 oz. I think we could easily have an additional 90 oz for a total of 173 oz. Wow that’s a lot of milk!!!

I think that should be enough. He eats between 6 to 8x per 24 hours. I’m guessing eats about 3 to 4 oz each time since that’s about what I get when I pump. So I figure I’ll go up to estimating 5 oz for each feeding since he’ll be a little older.

So…. 40 oz each day X 4 days = 160 oz (and that’s an over estimate at 8 feedings of 5 oz each) So I am hoping he will have way more than enough.

That and we will leave mid day on Thursday and probably drive home early Sunday so he won’t need a full day’s worth of milk for Thurs and Sun.

that is the question.

Jacob in his swaddle.

I’ve toyed with it a bit during nap time and he doesn’t seem near ready to go unswaddled. He’s 3 and a half months old now. I don’t want him to be dependent but I want him to get enough sleep too. He is a terrible day napper. He takes a bunch of mini naps about 30 to 45 min each. He is sleeping in his own crib so that’s good. On a good note he is an excellent night sleeper!

I’m worried he will never sleep if we take away the swaddle. He is not rolling over yet so I’m not worried about that right now. But I’m sure that is coming up in the near future. But for now I think we will keep the swaddle.

After posting this question on the Triangle Mommies Forum, I think we’ll stick with the swaddle. It seems lots of kids use a swaddle till 6 months old and even older. One mom suggested we try a Woombie. I just ordered one on Amazon. We will start using it during day naps to see how he takes to it.

So I guess for now the answer is… to swaddle.

Update:

Jacob in his woombie.

Naps are still only about 30 minutes but we are getting used to the woombie. I’m hoping it will be a good transition to sleeping without a swaddle.