School: Myself, Miracle Blanket

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Frequent Waking in 4-Month-Old Baby

Hello! My daughter just turned four months old and is waking several times throughout the night (anywhere from a few times to almost hourly). She was like this as an infant until we bought the Miracle Blanket swaddler. She then began sleeping through the night (10-hour stretches!). I've read that most babies should be weaned from swaddling around 3 to 4 months, so we stopped swaddling her, and she just does not sleep well without it. When she wakes, I give her her binky, and she'll fall back to sleep until the next waking. I do not...

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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...