Today Elijah slept quite a bit. I have found that if I swaddle him he will sleep a lot longer than if I don't. I always swaddle him at night, but usually not in the day. So when he sleeps in the day he wakes himself up because he flails his arms and legs! So today I swaddled him, but left his arms out to see what he would do and he slept for about 30 minutes and then he woke himself up! So I re-swaddled him like normal and he slept for 3 1/2 hours and I had enough time to start dinner. I made barbecued ribs, corn, and rice pilaf, and we had rice pudding for desert! Our bedroom is just so ridiculously hot! I have to leave the fan on all day and open the window if it's cool at night and it's still like an oven in here! Poor Baby... he loves to be swaddled, but here we are sleeping with no sheets and he has a blanket wrapped all around him. I don't know if I should just leave him un-swaddled and have him wake up a lot or just keep things the way they are. I guess if he's sleeping 8 hours or so then he's probably pretty comfortable, but he is so hot and sweaty when I un-swaddle him when he wakes up!
He makes the cutest little faces before bed! He will pout his lips and look intently at you and then he'll laugh and smile and he's just so lovable! He went to bed around 9:30 tonight and he woke up abruptly at 10:30 and he was crying so frantically! Normally he will wake up and lay there for a while before he starts to cry. I think he had a bad dream because as soon as I picked him up and whispered to him he fell right back to sleep! I don't even know if babies can have bad dreams, but it seemed an awful lot like that was it. Poor little Darling!
*Laura May*
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