Eliza sleeps like a big girl and babbles, too. Also, more on package shrinkage.

The last thing in the subject line has nothing to do with Seinfeld. I was confronted with another incidence of package size shrink yesterday. I was checking out the nutrition information on the back of a can of Starkist tuna. I noticed that the serving size was smaller. Yep. Another case of the sneaky package shrink. We're paying the same price and getting half an ounce less. If the store brand is the old size, I'll be sticking with that from now on. I plan to call out every incidence of this I find. I think it's unconscienable. Especially in this economy. For fans of the 80s movie Mr. Mom, perhaps I should switch to Schooner Tuna. The tuna with a heart.

Now, about Eliza. As soon as we bought her a new swaddling blanket, bedtime became a nightmare. We'd swaddle her and she'd cry off and on for two hours. Busting out seemed to be her lone objective. Night before last, I was so frustrated I just unswaddled her and it was INSTANT sleep. She slept all night without waking up to cry once. Last night she gave us a hassle about bedtime for about 45 minutes, and then she fell right to sleep and was still sleeping when we got up this morning. I guess swaddling is a thing of the past. I hate that we spent the money on a new blanket, but I'm relieved that she seems to be learning to sleep on her own. Now I need to tackle her new aversion to afternoon naps.

She's also been babbling a ton lately. I tried twice to catch it on video today, but with little success.

Product Plug

Eliza has always HATED to be swaddled. She'd kick off her blanket within minutes of being put down to sleep. We had a swaddling blanket that didn't work very well. It was flimsy nylon and a little too big for her. That didn't work at all. We'd all but given up on the concept.....UNTIL!

Aunt Cheryl bought Eliza something that has revolutionized sleep at our house.

Kiddopotamus Swaddle Me.

Since this product came into our lives, Eliza has (pretty much) slept through the night two nights in a row. Night before last she slept from 10:30 to 4:00 and then went back to sleep after feeding and changing until the alarm went off at 6:50AM. This morning she slept until 5AM, we stayed up for about 45 minutes and then went back to sleep until 8AM! I actually had to wake her up to eat. She hasn't been swaddled since 8AM and she's still drowsy.

This is the kid who wouldn't sleep for more than a 2 hour stretch and sometimes wouldn't go to sleep at all until 2AM.

It might not last, but bless the inventer of the Swaddle Me. At least I've had two fairly solid nights of sleep in a row.