Sleeping in his own room

Gaven has been sleeping in our room in his little Pack ‘N Play since the day we brought him home. At first, he slept in the little bassinet that comes with the pack n’ play. When he was about 3-4 weeks old, we found that he outgrew the bassinet. He didn’t exceed the weight limit, it was his length that bothers us. We noticed that his legs were not able to stretch out completely. So we took the bassinet out. And since then, he has been sleeping in the pack n’ play. Although we did put him in a bouncer (in the pack n play) for a couple weeks due to his acid reflux. It was best for him to sleep at a 30 degree angle rather than flat. Once we thought his reflux wasn’t as serious anymore, we put him back to his pack n play, laying flat.

from amazon.com.

We have also been swaddling him since day 1. He hated it at first, but eventually got used to it. I wish I knew we didn’t have to swaddle him. I would have not swaddled him when he was fighting it the first few days of his life. As a first time parent, I thought swaddling is the way to go. It did help him with the startle reflex though. He is now used to being swaddled and now it acts as a cue for his bedtime. He knows it is his bedtime when we swaddle him. We stoped swaddling him couple nights ago because I am worried it will affect his mobility development even though I read that it is ok to continue to swaddle until 3 months of age. I want to stop it sooner before it gets harder to break. He was confused at first but will still go to sleep without fussing too much. He has more night wakings these few days since then. I am not sure if it’s due to us not swaddling him or he is just going through another growth spurt. Anyway, we will stop swaddling him- better for him to get used to it now rather than later. We will just have to be patient with his night wakings now. Hopefully, it will get better.

We have always planned to move Gaven to his nursery when he turns 2 months. So today is the day.  We made the transition as easy as possible for him. We moved the mobile that we always have on his pack n play to his crib so he can continue to see the familiar mobile when he lays down. We also gave up our little white noise machine in our room. We have a white noise machine that we use every night. Since he has been sleeping with us, we think he might have gotten used to the noise machine as well. We play soothing music before his bedtime until he falls asleep. We continue to do that in his nursery. We put him to bed at 7 something tonight. He went to sleep pretty well with no fuss. We will see how he does tonight. We will probably be making millions of trips tonight to his room but we know it’s essential to have him sleeps in his own room. *sob sob* My little boy is growing up. I am thinking of investing in one of those video monitors so I can watch him (we have the regular baby monitor). I keep wanting to see him so bad. I think I will feel much better if I can see him sleep. I can tell my mom is pretty worried too. I’ll be able to tell if she makes secret trips to his nursery tonight from the baby monitor. Haha!