Oh dear. I am afraid we've screwed ourselves over with this since even my miracle-worker mom couldn't fix it.

When LO would wake up at night (she always has, with few exceptions, one wake up, usually around 4, since she goes down kind of late for the night.) She's 10 weeks tomorrow, by the way. Anyway, it used to be that at her wake up, I would re-swaddler her, and put her back down in her PNP in our room (where she sleeps.) Well, she started NOT being ok with that a few weeks ago. So I thought maybe it was too much swaddle so after her wake up tried a sleep sack, or footed PJ's. NOPE. HUGE NOPE. So we transitioned to her being taken out of the swaddle, eating, and then going back to sleep in her swing with me sleeping on the recliner next to her. That worked for a few weeks, but then she started not being ok with the swing. I mean, usually it's fine, but just not after her night wake up.

It's so hard because she clearly WANTS to sleep. She gets into that ultra-fussy, overtired-baby mode where you're like I CAN TELL YOU NEED SLEEP. JUST SLEEP! Anyway, when the swing stopped working, I started letting her sleep on me in the recliner.

I'm back to work now so clearly this is NOT optimal!!!! But I can't get her to do antyhing else. My mom is here visiting/helping and woke up when LO did at 5:30 this morning. I had been telling her about LO's habits for this wake up and she was saying oh yeah, you can't keep up with that, it's not good for either of you, etc. So I figured she'd try to get her to sleep and, being the miracle worker she usually is, she would figure out a way. I got up at 7:45 to start work and what do I see? LO sleeping on my mom. I asked her and she said she tried everything else and LO was having NO PART of any of it!!!

HELP! I gotta figure this out! I plan to try a Merlin sleep suit when she's closer to 3 months. The swaddle works great at night when she goes down for the evening, but just after she wakes up, all bets are off. She's SO good- she's been giving us a good stretch with just one wake up for so long, I couldn't ask for better! I just need to find a way for her to get back to sleep after her wake up without it being ON me. Open to any and all suggestions.