Trouble - that sounds promising on the swaddle. One word of warning though, it took us 5 weeks to wean LO off swaddling. Mind you, she'd been swaddled from birth, so maybe it's different.
LO has also started waking more frequently since about a fortnight ago. We've gone from a blissful set up of 10pm dreamfeed, one night wake up and feed and getting up between 5.30 and 6am to waking every 2 hours and getting up at 5. Not as bad as you've got it, Broody, but still so hard to cope with. I had to get my husband to take a day off earlier in the week to look after LO so I could sleep. I'd been trying to rock her at 5am and then suddenly started retching and had to run to the loo to be sick. I'd got so run down and exhausted, I'd seemed to get physically sick. Awful.
I read that babies' sleep cycles change around 5 months so that now, rather than having light sleep cycles that last 45 minutes but which they can drift between easily, they now go into more adult sleep cycles where they wake fully at the end of each. If they don't know how to self settle without you, they cry so you come and put them back to sleep. I feel I've really shot myself in the foot by rocking or feeding her to sleep as now she always needs me to go and give her a cuddle and a feed to settle her. I've bought her a Cushkie to try and get her attached to it and have worn it to put my smell on it. She seems to like it, so hopefully she'll eventually be able to cuddle that to resettle. Like many of you, I'm buggered if I'll let her cry it out. Judgey as it is, I think it's barbaric. I can understand how people get so sleep deprived they would try it but it's not for us.
Anyways, enough babble, here's that biscotti recipe (LO loves it with mushed avocado or hummus or nut butter on it)-
Preheat oven at 170C and line a caking tray.
Mash a medium sized ripe banana with 1TBsp of softened butter or neutral oil (we used oil) and 1 egg. Mash and mix until smooth. (Optional- you can add a pinch of cinammon if you want at this stage.) Sift in about 1 cup of white plain flour - do it a third of a cup at a time, as the amount you'll need depends on the size of the banana. If you're using gluten-free flour and the mixture goes dry, you can add water or milk a drop at a time until the dough holds together.
Put the dough on the baking sheet and (with floured hands) shape it into a long log shape which is about 4cm wide. Bake for 15-20 minutes until firm to the touch but not coloured. Remove and cool slightly on a wire rack.
Turn oven down to 120C and once you can handle the log, use a bread knife to cut 5mm slices. If you want longer ones, cut on the diagonal. Arrange slices on the baking sheet and return to the oven until golden and crisp. Now, the recipe said to do this for 15-20 minutes but ours took much longer and I ended up turning the oven up, but maybe that's our oven?!
Anyways, I hope it's a hit with your babies too!