Since the day that Caroline was born, she has been swaddled. Anytime that she wasn't her arms would flail around and since she didn't know what those things were or how to use them, it made it hard for her to sleep. So swaddling her kept everything tucked in so that she could sleep peacefully. We would swaddle her so tightly that it would make her grunt a little bit. We weren't being mean, but the tighter the swaddler, the better the sleep! She was a little Houdini and sometimes we would go in there and her legs would be out or her little hands would be up around her face. This usually would wake her up from her nap, but once she was swaddled tightly again, she'd doze right off.
One morning I heard her screaming bloody murder. This is very much not normal in her case and as I went into the nursery, I saw why. She had turned herself over onto her stomach and with her hands swaddled, she couldn't do anything about it. So I decided that it was time to break out of the swaddler. She was starting to spend a lot of time fighting out of the swaddler, too, so I knew we'd be better off getting her out of it. I was worried about how it would go, but like she has always done, it was no big deal! She is such a champ. One day for a nap I swaddled her right below her arms and gave her the paci and her bobo and this is what she looked like when I went in to check on her.
Those arms were as wide as they could be. I'm sure she was thinking how great it felt to finally be free! So we took naps that first day with her arms out and there wasn't a problem. That night I put her down and she fussed for a while and once I swaddled those arms in, she was out. She wasn't quite ready for the all night adventure! After a couple of days of naps with her arms out we put her to bed at night like that and she fussed around 4, but after sticking that paci back in she was back asleep until 7. Since then she has been sleeping with her arms out and she is getting better and better at it. My sweet girl is growing up!
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