we have been swaddling him with both blankets and the "SwaddleMe", but it appears that he is the houdini of swaddles. every night i burrito wrap him with his arms at his side, and every morning his arms are out and flailing about. it's almost like he's taunting me. "you can't keep me (and my arms) down!"right after i swaddle him, he sometimes starts wriggling and crying angrily. so then i think, maybe he doesn't want to be swaddled. maybe he wants his arms out? after all, i'd be pretty upset if someone wrapped me up tight like that (unless it was part of some bondage thing, er, never mind).
but when i don't swaddle him, he jerks his arms about as he's falling asleep, and he often ends up bopping himself on the nose and then bursting into tears. the other night, i left him unswaddled with his blanket tucked around him. i left the blanket close to his face, and he immediately began happily sucking on it. well, i had barely left the room when he started wailing. 
i returned to see that his flailing arms had pushed the blanket away, and now he was upset that the blanket had mysteriously disappeared. i repositioned the blanket by his face, and within seconds his arms shot up and swatted the blanket away again. he was doing battle with himself, and he was losing -- it was both hilarious and sad. after a few minutes of this, i gave up and just swaddled him. when i left the room, he was furiously sucking on the blanket, fully determined not to let it get away this time.ally liked to suck on her sleeve when she was falling asleep, and perhaps he will too. but until he has better control over his arms, i guess he'll still be my little burrito boy.
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