Do you swaddle for naps?

AM2008 · February 2011

We just witnessed the power of a good swaddle last night, so now I'm curious if I should be doing it for naps during the day too? If you swaddle, when do you do it?

bethandjoe09 · February 2011

We usually only swaddle at night. He's been swaddled for a couple of daytime naps, but usually only when he's overtired and we're having trouble getting him to go to sleep. Otherwise we're trying to keep a distinct difference between daytime and nighttime, and one of the ways we're doing that is by swaddling at night.

pkate98 · February 2011

no, just at night

erbear · February 2011

Sometimes. Right now, I'm trying to do one good nap a day at home in her bed (older DD is in daycare so drop off and pick up interfere with other nap times). So once a day, I swaddle, white noise, and try to get her to nap in her crib; otherwise, she's on the go or in my arms and not swaddled.

saraboston · February 2011

Absolutely! DD is feisty! We do a "standard" swaddle for naps and the "super swaddle" at night. (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4VdZxwsu4)

sometimesalwayschaotic · February 2011

I swaddle for all naps. I don't find that it is confusing her on daytime and nightime. I have read that around 6 weeks a baby will learn the difference between night and day due to circadian rhythms. I just find that without swaddling she'll sleep 10 min. and with swaddling sometimes she'll take a 4 hour nap. She really needs to sleep so I figure it can't hurt.

jd80 · February 2011

We swaddle for all sleep time. It's part of our "sleep routine." We swaddle, read a book or two and wind down when it is time for a nap or bedtime.

Lilystar82 · February 2011

We swaddle arms in for night bedtime and arms out for naptime. Our babies got so used to being swaddled all the time in the NICU that they get pretty fussy unswaddled.

themissizz · February 2011

We swaddle for all naps and for nighttime. We've never had a problem with day/night confusion. When he was really little, we always made sure lights were on in the house and it was darker at night, not sure if that made a difference.

thatgirl2478 · February 2011

DD hates to be swaddled - she likes to kick and wave her arms. We haven't had any problems with sleep here yet (knock on wood).

starsmaycollide · February 2011

We swaddle every time he sleeps. There have been times when he falls asleep without it during the day, but he doesn't stay asleep very long and he'll get overtired.

At this point, he has his days/night worked out-so even swaddled, his daytime naps are naturally just shorter stints than his sleep at night.

momofmanyinthemitten · February 2011

erbear:
Sometimes. Right now, I'm trying to do one good nap a day at home in her bed (older DD is in daycare so drop off and pick up interfere with other nap times). So once a day, I swaddle, white noise, and try to get her to nap in her crib; otherwise, she's on the go or in my arms and not swaddled.

This is what we're doing too.

juliane2004 · February 2011

bethandjoe09:
We usually only swaddle at night. He's been swaddled for a couple of daytime naps, but usually only when he's overtired and we're having trouble getting him to go to sleep. Otherwise we're trying to keep a distinct difference between daytime and nighttime, and one of the ways we're doing that is by swaddling at night.

Of COURSE we swaddle in the daytime too!!!! Why wouldn't you? Why teach your LO two ways to fall asleep? There are other ways to distinguish between day and night.