off the crutches baby......

we have successfully weaned casey off two of her crutches that she seemed to have in her first 6 months on earth.......one was the swaddle.......i thought we were gonna have to teach her college roommate how to swaddle her at the rate she was going.......she was too big for one blanket so we were using two blankets to make an effective swaddle.......well the 90 degree nights plus the fact that she was starting to roll over made it impossible to keep her in the swaddle anymore.......so we went cold turkey (well pretty much) and remarkably she's doing fine without the swaddle.......

secondly, we definitely spoiled her into expecting us to walk/rock/bounce/insert-any-other-verb-here to sleep for her first 6 months......we'd put her in her crib asleep and while she'd sleep through the night, it was getting harder and harder to put her down in her crib without her waking up.......so after a week in which she didn't go to sleep until after 11 every night after hours of us trying to get her to bed, we drew the line......we tried the farbers method, which says to put them in their crib awake, but sleepy......and to go back in to check on her at 3-5-8-10-12 min intervals each time for a minute each to soothe her then leave again.......it was super hard to just let her cry for so long the first few nights, but it actually seems to be working.......she's asleep usually before the 8 minute check.......which is fantastic.......she's happier, we're happier.......life's good......