Swaddling? Kinda long...

jdiaz79

Evening ladies. I almost never post, but lurk a bit over here. I have a swaddling question...When did you all break the swaddle habit? LO loves being swaddled. I tried to "wean" him for four nights this week, but he seriosuly woke up every hour crying. I finally gave in and swaddled him. He is now STTN again. I still rock him to sleep as well, which I know can be a bad habit, so he has no real self soothing strategies. I am starting to worry about back to tummy rolling though. He cannot do this yet, but is arching a lot and has been tunny to back rolling for like three weeks...I think the swaddling makes him feel so much more secure, but is it going to become a safety issue? I am interested in hearing what you all did/think. I feel like his being a preemie may make him need that security a little more...

Heather1979

No swaddle could hold my LO, not even the ninja nicu nurses' skills. So I bought some of the swaddlemes, and she would kick out of the bottom of it and I'd find it bunched around her head. If she wasn't still on the apnea monitor at that time I would have freaked. So the minute the apnea monitor left, the swaddlemes left too.

LO sleeps in a sleepsack now and she STTN just fine. Once in a great while when she is really crabby and screaming (and I knwo nothing else is the matter) the only thing that works is if I swaddle her in a blanket and hug her until she falls asleep. Now usually this only happens during the day, so I can sit for 2-3 hours while she sleeps and just hold her, but I'll let you know what works if it happens at night.

She made the transition smoothly, but then again I think she really didn't like being swaddled so much to begin with.

Good luck!

mommamorris

we swaddled her forever... even now sometimes. (she's on oxygen, and we use an angelcare.) can you swaddle "arms out"? if he can almost roll back to tummy he should be able to push up on his arms (age-wise).. right? and have good head/neck control to pick it up and turn it if he rolled on his stomach.

 you can wean them of sleep props. as i've posted recently we weaned our daughter of sleep props about a 3 weeks ago. (rocking, falling asleep on a drive, nursing to sleep...etc.) it was hard at first, but VERY possible. we still give her a binky- and now she's just fine with that. 

 

good luck! 

ssg73

E was a swaddle addict.  We just stopped using the velcro swaddlers a few weeks ago.  We went cold turkey.  She is nolonger sleeping through the night anymore but she was close to flipping herself over in the swaddle so we decided that the swaddle had to go.  I think E is a little mad about it still.  We went cold turkey so I can't give you any hints. GL

*KatieH*

Brendan was swaddled until 10 months (7 adjusted)  he loved it and so did I.  We stopped by doing one arm out for a week, then 2 arms out for a week and then eventually he just didn't need it. 

jkipp82

We are still swaddling.  He slept ONE night without a swaddle and that is only because DH put him to bed while I wasn't home and DH doesn't really swaddle good (yes, even though we use the swaddleme's...LOL). 

Carter won't nap during the day without being held, and I think this is because I don't swaddle him for naps (don't always know when he's going to fall asleep...and if I try to swaddle him after he's asleep...he wakes up).

But, at night he STTN for 9-11 hours/night, swaddled.  He rolls both ways, mostly back to tummy...but can't roll yet while swaddled (isn't even close) - so I'm not worried.

clyoungsey

I don't think there is anything wrong with swaddling as long as LO wants it and it is comforting to them.  I don't remember how long we did it, but I know still to this day, the Moby knocks him out, which is a nice tight swaddle.  I am about to put it on as it is 3am and he is wide awake....no sleep here tonight.

meldoo2002

We swaddled Nathan until 6 months.  At 6 months we just tried to go to a sleepsack one night (they were breaking out of the miracle blankets) and he did fine.  Joey on the other hand we tried at 6 months, 7 months, and finally he was free at 7.5 months, but it was a rough week or so with him up alot!

SkypekWithoutAC

We're in the same place. DD seems to tolerate swaddlign with one arm out well, so that's what we're doing for now.

Its a girl

We swaddled DD until she was able to roll over.  We also kept finding she had broken out of her swaddle.  We slowly started leaving the arms out and just swaddled her middle and legs.  Then she was wiggling out of that and so we just stopped all together! She loved to be swaddled I never thought we would see the end of it!