I've swaddled my DD since she was just a couple weeks old for nighttime sleep since she started herself awake all the time. Now that she has started to roll over, I have read that it's best to have her arms free. We are having a horrid time getting her to fall asleep and stay asleep without it. I bought a Swaddleme Wrap Sack which leaves her arms , but still swaddled her body, but she still just thrashes around all night. she sleeps just fine u swaddled in the day in her bassinet at grandmas or in her swing, it's just at night. Has anyone had any luck transitioning? Is this something we just have to wait out?
Re: Transitioning out of swaddle
I went to the Zipadee Zip website and watched the video but I'm wondering how is that different from a long-sleeved sleep sack, other than having the hands covered? Is it tighter, I'm guessing?
LO was born June 13th at 37 weeks. She rolled over once 5 weeks ago and it pissed her off tremendously. Then nothing. For 5 full weeks. I was wondering if I should worry. Then bam! She rolled over 3 times yesterday.
It will come :-)
@ghostof5letters does the magic suit cover their hands? LO's are always cold out of a swaddle.
Also, I see that they start at a 3-6 mos size. I realize it's a product recommended starting at 3 mos. What do you think about putting a 16 week old (so totally age/developmentally appropriate) in it when they are the size of the average newborn? (She's 9 pounds, but 0-3 mos are still huge on her. She can pull her legs up into the body of a cotton sleeper and pants just fall right off.
I am going to try our Sleep Suit again this week. She's getting damn close to rolling all the way while swaddled and she gets pissed when her hands are close and covered, yet she can't get them (she can get her hands up to her mouth in the Woombie and Halo Swaddlesack I've been using). I tried the suit last week and she seemed to get pissed that her legs got bound up, but after more nights of crappy sleep, I think she was just pissy in general. Last night I put it on her after she woke up twice between 7-10PM and she went down for 3 hours before waking again (this is a sleep win as of late!).
What do y'all dress them in when you put them in the suit? We keep our house right at 70°. I bought the cream cotton one, which is supposedly more breathable/less hot than the traditional.
You deserve a finders fee.
She was super fussy last night so didn't get to sleep until 11pm, and then slept until 1, wanted to eat because she wouldn't eat when she was fussy, and now we are on a stretch where she has slept 5 1/2 hours! She hasn't slept this long at one time in over a month! I'm wondering how long she will go and slightly jealous DH will get crazy good sleep compared with my 6 hours.
Hoping that tomorrow is the same way and that this isn't a first night fluke!
Everyone needs a sleep suit. I don't know what goes on in that thing, but it's a miracle!
ETA: I put LO in only a diaper under the suit with socks and she was perfectly fine.
DS naps in the swing with no swaddle but likes a blanket near his hands and face. I'm of course always around him and watching him with it. This week I've been trying to put him in the cribs for naps (in hopes of transitioning to the crib asap) but they haven't been super successful yet. He may just be swaddled in the rock n play forever. Long live the baby burrito.
I assume eventually we'll have to transition, but right now the sleep is so good that I'm not going there.
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It's been working great until last night. I think she's just having a bad night, though. Wants to wake up every hour. But usually with the suit she will wake up twice, where before it was 4 times. I think she gets cold, though, which I don't know how to fix. We bought the cotton white one and put a sleeper ok her and she still wakes up with her arms freezing and her chest/back are a little warm, but not that warm. I don't really know how to fix that. I've put an A&A blanket around her lower half but that isn't doing much good. I think if I could make her warmer she would wake up less.