Sleepless in the Midwest

Well my son has decided that we really don't need much sleep at night. He went from sleeping through the night, which he has done since he was 5 weeks old to as of last night getting up several times during the night. Mommy is very very tired. He has been really fighting me when I have swaddled him when getting him ready for bed and he usually has some how houdinied (I make up words now) some part (arm, leg) out by one of his many wakings. He first decided that 4:15/4:30 a.m. would be a good time to get up and that we needed to stay up for the day at that time, then he decided that wasn't early enough so he thought he would try 3:15/3:30 a.m. for a couple of days...nope not early enough he decided last night that he would get up at 1:00 a.m., eat, go back to sleep since mommy just left me here, get back up at 4:00 a.m., go back to sleep after 30 minutes of mommy holding my paci in since she is NOT going to feed me again and get up again at 5:00 and then 5:15 and mommy then realizes that my diaper is SOAKED and feels bad!!!

Last night was the first night that he slepted in his sleep sack all night and was not swaddled, so I am guessing that is why he was up so much - those darn startle reflexes!!! But he is putting up such a fight being swaddled and is getting too long for the miracle blanket and the other one (I can't think of the name now...). I did try increasing his formula over the weekend thinking he might be going through a growth spurt and he just spit up SO much that I put him back to where he was....

Any thoughts or suggests AGAIN on this would be greatly appreciated....mommy needs here sleep back...she has to function at work!! UUGGHH. For right now my game plan is to keep putting him in the sleep sack and not swaddle him and hope that he just needs to get used to this and maybe after a week (oh a whole week of no sleep - can I do this....) that he will get back into his routine sleeping again.

But at what point do I let him cry it out....he would really just like me to hold his paci in for eternity...but my arm is going to fall off....my baby boy is not spoiled...no not him!!! :)

Stressed!!

I am SO stressed out. I have to go back to work tomorrow. I don't want to, its not the whole work thing, its that I don't want to leave Baby boy. I have been the one with him the majority of the time for the last 3 months and this is going to be hard. Alot harder than I thought it would be!!! Tomorrow is not going to be fun and I don't know how I am going to get through it.... I have cried twice yesterday, most of today I can only imagine what it will be like when I have to drop him off in the morning. The only good thing is that my family is watching him. My sister-in-law will have him on Mondays and my mother-in-law will have him the rest of the week. I am really glad that he doesn't have to go to daycare that would stress me out even more!

So for those of you who work....how did you deal with going back to work and how did you make the transistion easier for you and baby?

Also for those of you who have babies who are swaddlers....what did you use to swaddle them, when were they to big to be swaddled and how did you transistion them out of swaddling to sleeping/napping unswaddled???

Baby boy is a swaddler and I have found him once totally unswaddled in the morning. I think he is getting too long for the miracle blanket (one of them shrunk for some reason, the other one doesn't seem so small....hmmm???) and then several occassions I have found him still swaddled just all over his crib totally out of his sleep nest....so I was wondering if we should quit swaddling him or just keep and eye on him and take everything out of his crib.....suggestions...