Thursday, April 8, 2010

Sleeping Wiggle-bottom

H. wiggles. All the time. When he's awake, or asleep, or eating, or even playing on his playmat.

It's not uncommon for me to put him down right in the middle of his crib, and in the morning to find him sideways pressed into the top. Which is funny, it makes a good story... but lately, he's been waking up in the middle of the night (where before he was sleeping 12 hours at night) because he's wiggled to a side, and can't move anymore.

Well, I love my sleep, and therefore, this needed to stop. He doesn't like being wrapped up, so swaddling him wouldn't work... Putting him farther down in his crib so he's got less wiggling room didn't work, and putting him right at the top so from the start he'd have nowhere to go didn't work either.

And then I got a brilliant idea... a GroBag, which is essentially a sleeping bag that has armholes. So, I am kind of cheap, and wasn't really wanting to pay like 60 bucks for is, especially since he is going to grow out of it so fast.

But, lo and behold, I found one for 15 bucks at my favourite consignment store. And it was cute. It's white, with adorable little blue tractors all over it. So cute!

And we tried it last ight. H. still moved a little. But only a few inches. He didn't touch any side of the crib, and stayed asleep all night!

Yay! We're back to an uninterrupted 12 hours night of sleep!