Over the next couple of weeks, as I became skilled at
using the “S’s” Nurse Louise had described that night, Eve
rewarded us with six-to-eight-hour periods of
uninterrupted sleep every night. At six months, we were
still swaddling Eve at night but by then we would let one
of her arms stay out so she could suck her fingers.
Shari, Michael, Hillary, Noah, and Eve
Didi and Richard were exhausted from Cameron’s
hourly waking—all night long. They tried keeping their
six-week-old up more during the day in the hope he would
sleep better at night, but that just seemed to get him
overtired and make him cry even more. At night, they
tried to calm him with a bath, the vacuum, or a ride in the
car, all of which worked for a while but Cameron would
get upset again as soon as the “entertainment” stopped.
Then, they discovered their son liked to sleep tightly
wrapped and seated in the swing next to a white-noise
machine with the sound cranked up loud. However, they
worried about leaving him in there, so after he fell asleep
they would put him back into his bassinet. Cameron slept
better that way, but still awoke every three or four hours.
Finally, Didi and Richard stumbled onto the secret for
getting Cameron to sleep longer. One night when he was in
the swing his exhausted parents fell asleep and let him
stay in the fully reclined swing, strapped in, the white
noise CD on, all night long. It made a huge difference.
With that nighttime assistance he began to sleep a six-
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