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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, this is just a physiological thing-- MOST babies are not wired to sleep 12 hours straight this early.

What happens if you try to soothe baby back to sleep without resorting to swing? Baby wakes up again after 1 a.m.?

Personally, with a baby who is such a good sleeper at this age, I would avoid resorting to a crutch like the swing. (Actually, #1 was a terrible sleeper, and I still avoided resorting to swing, since technically babies are not supposed to sleep in them during the night and the sleep experts are not fans of motion sleep-- however, if I'd had older children when she was born, I'm sure I wouldn't have been so high and mighty about it.) I would try to give tools like a PP suggested (pacifier, reswaddle, music box, lovey) that will help baby resettle on herself w/out creating dependence upon the swing. Often baby sleep changes so much around 4 months or so, so all you can do before then is try to instill good habits, and survive. Is the 1 a.m. waking really killing you? Because most 10 months old don't come anywhere close to sleeping 12 hours straight, nor should they, despite what some people might say...in fact, the one friend I had who was blessed with one was ordered by her pediatrician to wake the child up every 4 hours in the middle of the night anyway because sleeping too deeply can be a risk factor for SIDS (plus, the doctor wanted the baby eating in the night, so that is another factor that you don't have to worry about if you aren't concerned about your milk production or baby's weight gain).

Congrats on your still-new baby![/quote]

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