Sayonara Swaddle

The swaddle has been really good to us over the past few months.  It helped Eli sleep through the night from really early on. But we thought it was time to finally say goodbye. He had already started breaking free from it by morning time anyway and it was just time (probably a couple of months past time!). It's fun to see him moving around ALL OVER in his crib now!! 

We didn't go straight to pure freedom...he had a hard time adjusting so we are using the "sleeping bag" things now.  The first couple of nights he woke up several times and we had to go lightly hold his arms down because he kept waking himself up with them. When we would gently hold them, he looked so relieved and just dozed right off again. So sweet! He is more adjusted to it now and is learning to put himself back to sleep when he wakes up.