Mini-Me's sleep patterns continue to improve, as we see above - she is now taking two solid naps per day, sleeping through the night (although sometimes waking up earlier than I would like), and she holds it together throughout the evening so I don't dread that fussy time between 6 and 8. That was the worst when she was transitioning from three naps to two a few months ago.
She has three crutches: she sleeps with a pacifier, she sleeps better when swaddled, and she sleeps in her Moses basket, which is set in her crib. Because she is getting rather old for swaddling, I finally broke down and got a Miracle Blanket in an attempt to contain her when she is in a Houdini mood. No way around it, though, she is getting too long for the Moses basket. I tried to get her napping and sleeping in her crib without the basket, and the first day went ok, though she napped for shorter periods of time than I had hoped. She rolls all over the crib and eventually works her way out of her swaddle, but then she is able to find the pacifier by herself. Today, though, as an experiment, I put her down for naps in her basket, and she slept three hours this morning and two more in the afternoon! I put her to bed in her crib tonight at bedtime, and she woke up twice in the first hour. I put her in the basket and haven't heard from her since. So I guess she's not yet ready to move out of the Moses basket. I'll keep watching for opportunities to steer her toward a less prop-intensive sleep routine, but I am not excited about giving up those nice long naps!
