The Blake Family: Operation DEswaddle!!

SO Hudson has been swaddled at night since the first day we brought him home from the hospital. At about 6 weeks he started to fight it so we left his arms out, but swaddled the rest of him. Since then thats how we've done it...everynight.....and he has slept...well:) But I knew the day was coming. Everynight Tyler and I would look at eachother and discuss if we wanted to let him try it without...and then we would decide to procrastinate...beacause we didn't want to rock the boat and give up our nice 7pm to 6am sleeper. But Friday night we decided to bite the bullet. Besides...we figured Hudson might be made fun of if he went to sleep over at a friends house and brought his swaddle with him:)

So to transition him we put him in a sleep sack....kind of like a sleeping bag with arms. It gives him the freedom to move around as he wants but still keeps him somewhat "closed in". Now that he has been rolling fom his back to his belly (he started this at a litte over 4 months) he has decided to try to do it at night and when he can't get going the way he wants because he is swaddled, he gets rather frustrated:) But to our surprise he did great! He let out a few "out of the ordinary" cries the first hour he was down, but after that it was smooth sailing:) He even slept in until 7:15!!! We were shocked! He has been doing great ever since then....I guess he didn't need the swaddle as much as we thought he did. Way to go Hudson...we knew you could do it! My little baby is growing up:(

A few cute pics!

Sleeping soundly in the sleep sack!