These are a few of my favorite things

Sleep edition

So every mother of a baby or toddler knows that sleep is her new long lost best friend.  Here are some products I have found invaluable in Destructo's first year to help me gain a few (and by few I mean very few) hours of sleep each night.

When he was a newbie, he liked to be swaddled.  I am a swaddling failure.  I mean I couldn't wrap a baby to save my life.  Whatever was I going to do?  In comes this handy product:  Summer Infant swaddleme.
He would wear this all nice and cuddly to bed and it would keep his arms from moving too much and startling him awake.

Once he started breaking out of the swaddle around six weeks, we moved onto a regular sleepsack.  I preferred this kind:  Halo sleep sack.
Both the swaddleme's and the Halo sleep sacks come in cotton (organic and non organic varieties) and fleece.









To provide white noise which helps him to this day sleep more soundly, I invested in this:  Homemedics sound spa.
It has six different sounds (our favorite is the ocean) and three different little discs you can put in to project onto the ceiling.

 Kai has two favorite comfort objects.  The first one is his frog lovey.  Frog Lovey

And then there is his beloved seahorse.  He liked it from the time he was a week old.  (And just as a side note, none of these comfort objects were in his crib when he was asleep until he was closer to six months.  I just had to take photos since he really liked them.)  The Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow Seahorse Blue comes in blue or pink and lights up and play soothing classical music and ocean sounds.  Now that Destructo is older he turns it on and off all night when he wakes up.  It cracks me up to hear it across the monitor just randomly at night.


And finally, to make mommy sleep better at night I highly recommend getting a Summer Infant Day & Night Baby Video Monitor with 5" Screen - White.  I could not function without it as I like to check on him when I wake up at night and it is so nice to see that he is sleeping soundly and by sleeping soundly, I mean still breathing.  I challenge you to find one new mother that doesn't check this when the child has slept particularly well one night.  I lucked out and got a used  for 35 bucks at a consignment sale.  This particular model doesn't have zoom or the function where the baby can hear you when you talk, but it has good quality picture and sound.

Now if only these things had made Captain Destructo the world's best sleeper.  I was blessed with a child who sleeps just like me.  A night where neither one of us wakes until morning would truly be a small miracle.



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