Burritos No More

After six full months of sleeping immobilized in their Miracle Blankets (following several months of immobilized sleep in the womb), Eloise and Julian are now both swaddle-weaned at night. (We are still swaddling them for naps. We’re a little bit afraid of what will happen if we stop. Experiments thus far have not been promising.)

Now that they can move around, we can’t have blankets in their cribs anymore, even the tightly tucked ones that we used to use. So we’ve transitioned to wearable blankets, which are vest/sack/gown things that give them a little extra warmth. We have a few fleece ones, but as the weather was getting warmer I started eying these great Aden and Anais muslin ones. I had it in the back of my mind to pick up a couple the next time we made it down to Bellani Maternity, when lo and behold a package of six-month “birthday” gifts arrived from our friends Julia and Jeff in Portland, Oregon, containing — among other things — two muslin sleep sacks!

Julia and Jeff are our “twin twins,” because Julia and I were due on the same day (among other eerie commonalities). Their adorable kids, Ben and Elly, were born one week before Julian and Eloise, and it has been great fun to follow the development of all four of them. Eloise and Elly have been showing uncanny similarities…we’re a little bit nervous about what will happen when we allow those two little firecrackers meet in person.

Anyway, now that Julian and Eloise are unswaddled, they are entertaining us by the degree to which they move around the cribs in their sleep. The other night I heard discordant music playing over the monitor and went up to discover that both had simultaneously kicked on the mobiles in their cribs (they continued to sleep peacefully through the cacophony). Julian can sleep-rotate himself 180 degrees in a matter of minutes. I check on them much more frequently now because I’m curious to see what funny spots they’ve scootched themselves into. (I am easily entertained.)

Another mini-milestone passed.

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