Swaddling...

bclspeer

My twins are two weeks old, when should I get away from swaddling them?

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my son LOVED to be swaddled and was a good sleeper- so we swaddled him until he was almost 4mos old.

MrsARC1105

The general rule seems to be until they can roll.

lutzcowgirlie

I swaddled mine through 4 months and after my son could roll - he had great head control and I was comfortable that he wouldn't have any issues. For at least the first 8-12 weeks of life, just do anything that works. Sleep in swings, hold all day, swaddle, nurse constantly. You can work it all out later - they just want what they want now and it is fine to give them what they want  

macchiatto

We're still swaddling our boys at 5 months; they sleep SO much better that way! We experiment with not swaddling or a lighter swaddle once every week ro two, but they're just not ready for it.

meldoo2002

We are still swaddling.  They are not rolling yet.  We tried not to the other night because they were already asleep  in their carseats and we just tried moving them.  It didn't go well.  Within 10 minutes they were stretching, playing, we swaddled them (they had woken up at this point) and they went right back to sleep and slept all night.

ncsubride

We still swaddle ours to fall asleep but they always get out, our pedi said they will let us know when to stop we are going to attempt it during the week dh is on vacation in a couple weeks.

CaliJenny

We stopped swaddling DS 2 nights ago and DD 2 weeks ago.  We tried to stop both of them 2 weeks ago but DS was sleeping horribly so we figured we'd keep swaddling him until we found him rolled over which was 2 days ago.  Now they are in sleep sacks. 

Swaddling is what made them sleep through the night and give us our lives back.  Do it until you can't do it anymore because of them rolling.  It's really not that hard to stop, it just takes a night or two.