hour stretch, eat, and then go back down for another
three hours!
When Wyatt was two months old, his parents—Lise, a
nurse, and Aaron, a physician—noticed he would sleep
five hours at night when wrapped and serenaded by white
noise but only three hours when his arms were free and
the room was quiet.
Lise said, “I was happy to see how well our son did with
swaddling. But I still worried he would get ‘addicted’ to it
and have trouble sleeping unwrapped when he got older.
So as soon as he turned three months, I began putting him
to bed unwrapped.
“Everything seemed fine, until a month later when
Wyatt turned four months. Out of the blue, he began
waking every two hours through the night—screaming!
One friend told me he was teething, but Tylenol didn’t
help. My husband guessed he was going through a growth
spurt, but rice cereal didn’t help either. At Wyatt’s four-
month checkup, I told Dr. Karp about my frustration and
fatigue. He suggested I stop the medicine and cereal and
try the wrapping and white noise again. To be honest, I
thought Wyatt was too old for swaddling, but I was
desperate.
“Within two nights, he went from waking up and
shrieking five times a night to waking once, chowing down
his milk, and then immediately sacking out again until 6
AM!
He loved the waterfall sound of our sound machine. I
played it loud for him for the first hour and then kept it
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