Sunday, April 3, 2011

Burrito-wrapped swing-sleeper


Since about the day she was born Caroline has slept in a swing lent to us by my big sister. It takes 4 C-cell batteries to run and her many naps a day quickly depleted those batteries, twice. Expensive! So I started just leaving her swing off and putting her down for nap and bedtime there anyway, and she still loved it. She quickly went from sleeping 2-3 hours at a stretch to sleeping up to 9 hours her first night-time stretch. It was wonderful!


Enter Joe's good intentions. He doesn't want her to get too used to being in the swing to sleep, so he started putting her to bed in her cradle again. All of a sudden, she was up every 2-3 hours again, all week long! The poor girl was exhausted and had a much harder time during the day, so I started putting her back in the swing for naps so she could catch up on her sleep then. After one week, I needed some catch-up, so she's back in the swing for bedtime. And she only woke up once last night. Thank you, swing!


Now Joe had better not put her down in the cradle tonight while I'm at work...

3 comments:

hibiscusgirl said...

they all get it. they all grow up. don't worry. if she's sleeping who cares where?

Kari and Jonathan said...

Sometimes we parents have this idea of how things "should be." But really, why ruin a good thing? It's not like she sleep in a swing til she's 15!

Elsha said...

Glad the swing is working! And doesn't Joe know the rule? Whatever gets everyone the most sleep!