New Baby Straightjacket and other violence...

I don't know how parents deal with being woken up at night all the time! Donny sleeps a solid 11-13 hour night usually. Not last night. Last night he managed to figure out how to explode out of his old swaddler. At 1 am he woke me up crying (he doesn't sleep well when he is not tied down!) I re-swaddled, figuring he just didn't get fastened up tight enough. No such luck... 1:45 am - he woke me up again. Out of the swaddler again. And 2:30. And 3:00. And 3:45. So... I carried him out to the living room and held him while we both got two much needed hours of sleep... then at 5:45 Andy swaddled him really tight in the swaddler and our biggest recieving blanket before he went to work. I was shocked when we turned on the light and saw what he had done to his forehead one of those times he wiggled free from his swaddling. He looks a bit like I dropped him forehead first on the sidewalk!    Donny and I both slept soundly until 8:00. When, you guessed it! He found his way out again!    Right after I fed him (and trimmed those finger nails) I raided our linen closet and found an old flannel sheet that I haven't used in years and cut it down to the right size to swaddle our not so little man.   I'm not sure why he likes it so much. At almost four months, he is past the age that most babies stop sleeping well in a straightjacket... but maybe he takes after both parents who like to wrap themselves up in a mummy bag like state to sleep every night. For now, he is happily napping in his swaddler and new sheet-blanket... looking like a kid who's taken a big spill off his bike. More fun!