The End of Swaddle Season
A lot of people say how different their children are from each other. Ours? Not so much. Simon and Adlai appear to have the same interests (the outdoors, water, fans, books, music, silly sounds, being thrown up into the air, being mobile, etc.) and very similar personalities. Heck, let's be honest - they could be identical twins if there wasn't that 3.5 year age difference. Adlai is a little more reserved but only in that he takes comfort the way Simon never would. He has a favorite blanket, he uses a pacifier, he doesn't complain when cuddled, he is working really hard at being a finger/thumb sucker and he insists on being swaddled while sleeping. Unfortunately for him, it has been really warm for the past three nights and we don't have air conditioning which has given us a choice: bake him in a swaddle or not sleep. Last night, after two hours of failing to get him to sleep unswaddled, Matthew removed his clothing and I cut a sheet and mummified him in it. We've decided to go with the slow approach- one arm out of the swaddle this week, one arm next week, then freeing his legs until we are only swaddling his torso and then not swaddling ever again. I think that makes us swaddle free sometime in June. Oy.
By the way, Adlai ate more than a full portion of rice cereal last night. Granted, a portion is a tablespoon of cereal and an ounce of breastmilk but that's a lot for a second feeding. He did complain but the complaining was about the delivery mechanism not the meal. He can't seem to understand... why the spoon?