After School: Myself, Miracle Blanket

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Please Help the Zombie Mom with Sleep!

I wish someone had told me that I was going to give birth to a hard partying college student who likes to get charged up around 11:00 nearly every night and not want to sleep until about 3:00 in the morning, instead of a peaceful newborn! All kidding aside, I would LOVE some advice on how to get my baby to settle down better at night. I'm not asking for utopia or a night of continuous sleep- I am fully aware that I am going to have to get up in the middle of the night to feed or change him. I'm also not naive enough to think that I'll...

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5 Month Old Breastfed Baby, Sleep Issues, Formula and Miracle Blanket

I think I may have a unique problem that is a combination of breastfeeding, swaddling, sleep, and sanity... My 5 month old daughter Isabella was never a great sleeper. She cluster fed from the beginning and if it wasn't for the pump I think I would have either given up breastfeeding or jumped off a bridge! A friend of mine highly recommended the miracle blanket which is sort of like a baby straightjacket. It worked in extending her sleep by an hour or two (when she only slept a couple of hours, it was very helpful) and it became...