Hannah and the Blanket

Hannah loves her blanket. It's green, with a sheep on it, and very soft. We have let her nap with it for quite a while, but if you will remember, she liked to put it over her head. There is a different blanket in that picture, but since then she has become very partial to the sheep blanket. So after a while, we stopped stealing the blanket from her after she fell asleep. We found that lengthened her naps substantially; instead of waking up and fussing, she would wake up and sooth herself back to sleep. Problem is, we had to check on her a fair amount and keep moving the blanket away from her face. She gradually got better at this, but up until a couple of nights ago, we were still taking the blanket from her at night. Unfortunately, this meant she needed us to sooth her at night when she woke up, since we removed her method of soothing after she fell asleep.

We decided to try letting her have the blanket at night. Sounds like an easy decision right? Except that with all that you hear about SIDS, giving something like this a try means that if it doesn't work, you don't get to try again tomorrow. On the other hand, letting babies fall asleep with a pacifier is supposed to reduce the risk of SIDS (don't quote me on that, it's thirdhand knowledge). So we decided to give it a try.

I AM SO RESTED!

No more waking up at 2 and then at 5:30. Hannah is sleeping so much better, and so far she hasn't gotten herself all wrapped up in her blanket. Part of the reason we decided it was time to try was because the blanket frequently ended up to her side after she fell asleep, instead of her holding the blanket over her face.

And instead of a picture of her sleeping through the night (I didn't take any because I was sleeping too!) I have chronicled a bathtime in photos. I love the splash picture - it looks like the clown fish just dove in and caused it.