A baby's rest is crucial to new parents and it's been hard to get some sleep even when he's sleeping well because I wake up to check on his every time he makes a noise and just because I need to make sure he's okay. He really is so precious to us that I can't help it!
I have really started to notice interesting things about his sleep patterns as he's gotten older.
1. At first he was content to be swaddled tight and would sleep and sleep; since about 2-3 weeks, he would fight the swaddle, preferring his arms to be free and would even kick his legs free too. And now, his legs are too long for us to swaddle him well at all.
2. From the beginning I would lay him on his back to sleep and would wake up to find him rolled to his side with his arm over his eyes. Sometimes he'd even be diagonal from the position I put him in. He still does this.
3. He favorite places to fall alseep are in his swing, during car rides, during walks in the Bjorn or his stroller, laying across my belly or chest.
4. At first, when he was sleeping he would sometimes cry out like he was having a bad dream. Now, he usually giggles in his sleep so I figure the bad must have been replaced by good thoughts!
5. And most importantly, he just gets cuter and cuter!
Here are some before and after pictures during an especially long and deep sleep.
I have really started to notice interesting things about his sleep patterns as he's gotten older.
1. At first he was content to be swaddled tight and would sleep and sleep; since about 2-3 weeks, he would fight the swaddle, preferring his arms to be free and would even kick his legs free too. And now, his legs are too long for us to swaddle him well at all.
2. From the beginning I would lay him on his back to sleep and would wake up to find him rolled to his side with his arm over his eyes. Sometimes he'd even be diagonal from the position I put him in. He still does this.
3. He favorite places to fall alseep are in his swing, during car rides, during walks in the Bjorn or his stroller, laying across my belly or chest.
4. At first, when he was sleeping he would sometimes cry out like he was having a bad dream. Now, he usually giggles in his sleep so I figure the bad must have been replaced by good thoughts!
5. And most importantly, he just gets cuter and cuter!
Here are some before and after pictures during an especially long and deep sleep.
He fell asleep in my arms and I put him down for just a few minutes while I finished some chores. He started snuggling down into the Boppy so I left him and let him take a nap. The longer he slept, the more he moved...
Evetually, this is how he ended up...and he still wasn't quite where he wanted to be...
So he stretched out a little...
And slept a little while longer like this. I can tell it's not going to be fun if he ever wakes up in the middle of the night and gets into bed with us when he's older - he's going to be a bed hog and we'll probably end up with a foot to the face!
