The swaddle trials and tribulations

To swaddle a baby is a great thing.  They look so cozy and at peace.  Almost makes you wish there was an adult size one.  That's when they are a newborn though, when they hardly move at all.  Then they get older and begin to squirm and fight the swaddle.  Which is ok, it usually means they don't need to be swaddled any more.  Not the case with my daughter.  She just likes to fight it to see if she can get out.  Once the hands are out there is no hope of sleeping.  Frustrating of course but I have found a few ideas that have helped me defeat baby Houdini.  However, my baby girl is almost at the stage of rolling over.  Surprisingly not from stomach to back, but from back to stomach.  Which everyone knows is a no-no for swaddled babies.  So now its' not an option any more, swaddle has to go.  I've tried the 1 hand out scenario and it seems to just give her the challenge to get the other one out.  So I said nuts to this we are going to try cold turkey.  She is up in her crib right now, first nap of the day.  I rocked her to sleep until just to the point of drowsiness so she could finish the job herself.  So far she has been asleep for 20 minutes and it seems to be going ok, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.  As with the pacifier trials, everything is not as it seems.  We have mostly broken our attachment to the pacifier.  She only wants it sometimes to help her go to sleep but once she is asleep and it falls out of her mouth she is ok with it.  So I wouldn't call it a win but it's not a fail either.  Let's call it a mutual agreement between mom and infant!