My little girl rolled over twice today from back to front.  The first time was when she woke up from her afternoon nap, and I hadn’t gotten her out of her crib.  I heard a muffled cried and thought to myself, “She rolled over”.  Sure enough, when I saw her in the crib, she had rolled over onto her tummy in her crib while in her swaddle.  The second time she rolled over, she was on her play mat while we were having dinner.  I heard a mad cry, and she was on her tummy.  Both times, I did not see her actually do it.

As excited as I am about her new achievement, I am stressed out tonight because we unswaddled her.  Our pediatrician had told us when they start rolling, we need to start unswaddling.  As you know, anything that changes anything to do with sleep makes me stressed out.  Sigh.  I don’t want it to be, but it does.

Ironically, I my last post was how well she had been doing sleep wise.  Part of me thinks and really hopes she’ll do well with the transition because 1)  she’s been putting herself to sleep most of the time, 2) I found her out of her swaddle this morning, and she was asleep and stayed asleep for a little bit afterwards, 3) she’s put herself back to sleep at naps and nighttime after crying out for a few minutes.  Unfortunately, the irrational side of me is expecting hours of crying, and I’m frozen with what I we should do.  Both of the boys got it within a couple of days; actually within 24 hours for falling asleep, but with both boys, there were nights they were up for a couple of hours the first time they were unswaddled.  I’m nervous because with Jonas, it seems that where his regression of night sleep seemed to happen (woke up sooner in the middle of the night), and it stayed for a few months until we broke him (after trying at least one time unsuccessfully).

We have a game plan.  We’re going to do what we would have done if she was swaddled and not falling asleep or woke up earlier – give her 10-15 minutes (depending on what she sounds like at the end of our time limit), and soothe her, then put her back down.  We know she can go at least 6-7 hours without a feeding, so we won’t feed her until she hits the 6-7 hour mark.

Karis is still up right now (10 minutes after we put her down), but she’s hasn’t cried out too long or hard yet.  Fingers crossed.

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