Goodbye swaddle..hello, tummy sleeper!

We have finally decided to wean Elle off of swaddling aka straight jacket. Lately, she's been rolling over while swaddled during her sleep. It got me worried that she'll get stuck face down and won't be able to breath. This weekend, we finally made the decision to transition her to a sleep sack. She sleeps really well while swaddled so we were not sure how she'd take the transition. Well, the first night she was on a sleepsack, she slept like...umm a baby :-). We were surprised to see her roll over to her tummy and slept very soundly! When she was a newborn, we noticed that she has a preference on sleeping on her tummy but we did not encourage it for fear of suffocation and SIDS. Now that she has great head control and can roll over, we just let her sleep however way she wants it :-).

Here are a couple of shots from the video monitor. It's so cute to see her do baby push ups and turn her head side to side. She sleeps on her tummy practically every night now :-).

Rolled over from tummy to back!

Daddy Jarbs was playing with Elle yesterday morning when she rolled over from back to tummy! I missed it as I was in the other room putting her clothes away. Hopefully, I'll catch it next time and if we're lucky enough, have it on video. Yay for another milestone!

We got a side sleeper!

Elle has rolled over from her back to her tummy two times over the last couple of weeks. She has not done it again recently but has mastered partially rolling over though. Since she has learned to do this, now she prefers to sleep on her side! It's so funny to watch her in the video monitor roll over from side to side, while swaddled!

Elle rolled over!

Elle woke me up at 7 am this morning with her "I am already awake. Come and get me!" cry. I looked at the video monitor and thought that it was kinda weird that I could see her bald spot which is at the back of her head. I thought "Am I seeing this right? This she turn over?." I went to her room and true enough, I found her face down while swaddled! I got excited that she was able to roll over but at the same time got concerned that she was still swaddled and could have suffocated! Nevertheless, I was excited about this milestone!

I was not able to take a photo of her face down (lol) but here she is during playtime trying to turn sideways. I still have not seen her roll over while unswaddled. Hope I'll be able to catch it on video when she does.