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It wasn’t exactly our #1 parenting rule, but Kevin and I felt very strongly about our children not sleeping with us. We’ve always heard about the people who have all their kids in bed with them for years and never get their own space. We always said that would never be us.

With Sophia this was not a problem at all, since she slept through the night (in her crib) at 5 weeks. With Derek, it is a different story all together and I must admit that rule has been broken numerous times, almost every night. I see why people do it. It’s out of pure necessity…for everyone’s sanity…for an extra couple hours of sleep! We joke that if we want Derek to wake up, all we need to do is lay him in his crib.

So every night after about an hour of trying to get him to sleep in his crib, I give in and put him in bed with me. I do this after every feeding during the nights (which for him his every 3 hours). The result is always the same, Derek snuggled up close to me.

Last night we realized that we had broke the #1 rule of the “5 S’s for the Happy Baby”….swaddling. He was never swaddled in the NICU and the few times I tried it since we’ve been home, he’s hated it. However, last night Kevin decided that we should try swaddling him again. Low and behold it worked. He slept IN HIS CRIB from 10:30 pm until 4:30 am, without his every 3 hour feeding. I was so nervous I was up every every hour after 2 making sure he was still alright. Woo Hoo!!

I’m not holding my breath that this will happen every night…or even again any time soon. But it worked once and I’m sure it will happen again.