Belly sleeper!

After being put on her back to sleep for the past four months, Madeline is now able to roll herself over onto her belly and sleep in the position she has surely dreamed about since I stopped letting her fall asleep on my chest in the middle of the night. With this milestone comes the end of swaddling. If she is put down in her crib while she is still awake she immediately rolls onto her belly...this does not work very well when her arms are pinned to her sides, so I decided it was time to stop swaddling her. She took all of her naps that way yesterday and went to bed free to roll around. She woke up a few times during the night and cried, not really sure to do with all of that freedom and seemed to have forgotten how to roll onto her back. I let her go each time and she fell back to sleep. We woke up at 5:30 and she ate and then I wrapped her up. She got another three good hours on her back. Right now she is in the middle of a really good nap...on her belly and leaning up against the side of her crib!

Madeline is growing so fast! Sometimes it seems like she grows in her sleep and is bigger in the morning than she was the night before. She has gotten so good at rolling back and forth that she has decided that she no longer wants to lie on the floor. We bought an exersaucer toy last week and she loves it! She likes to try and stand up and really enjoys discovering all of the activities. She loves to "walk" and seems frustrated that she cannot move around more than her little body lets her!