So the girls are now just over 4 months old and we're still swaddling for naps and nighttime. I asked our pedi at their last wellness appointment when we should stop and he said, "when they don't like it anymore." I still figure we'll definitely have to stop when they're rolling back to tummy for safety reasons. But it might have to be sooner than we thought...
DH went to get Izzy when the girls woke up for their middle of the night feeding, and she had both arms and one leg out of the Miracle Blanket! The MBs been so good to us so far, but these little Houdinis can get themselves out of anything. DH wraps them really snug, way more snug than I do for naps, and she still wiggled herself out.
So, my question is, did anyone have good experiences getting rid of the swaddle cold turkey? I've tried the one arm out transitions and they have such a hard time falling asleep, and even harder of a time staying asleep. But maybe we'll have to just go through a couple of bad nights/weeks to get them sleeping without a swaddle?
Re: Swaddling -- wish I could have taken a picture!
If you don't mind me asking, how long did you swaddle? I feel like when they can roll over, they'll be more comfortable and able to sleep in the crib, but I just don't know. We might just have to test it out and possibly not sleep for a week. Ahhh!
Ours are 6 months, we tried quitting the swaddle around 5 months because they were starting to roll over. One baby did fine cold turkey, the other one SCREAMED, would not sleep, and is therefore still being swaddled. I know we'll have to get him off it at some point but they've been sick nonstop and waking up a lot (after STTN!). I just can't deal with something that's going to make their sleep even worse than it already is right now!
The one who's still swaddled can totally roll himself around even while swaddled, and move his head, so I'm not worried about suffocation risk (also, there's nothing in the crib to suffocate on). He's gotten to be a houdini since getting stronger though, we now have to double swaddle him, he can get out of the miracle blanket in 2.5 seconds.