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Sleep sacks...

Diana27Diana27
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Does anyone use these?  I usually always swaddle DD, but she seems to like to kick her legs around and had been breaking free at times and I worry that she will 1) get cold and 2) somehow squirm under the blanket. 

She is a peanut at about 6 1/2 pounds and 3 weeks...I have seen the ones that are sleeveless and ones that have sleeves, but they look HUGE...like she would drown in them...

So if you use them, can you tell me, are they supposed to be so big and what do you put on the baby under them?  Short sleeve / long sleeve onesie?

Cause if this blizzard ever lets up I would like to get out of the house and was thinking about getting her 1 or 2....thanks!

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  • FullersGirlFullersGirl member

    I don't use them yet... I have a 7.5 pounder and an 8 pounder.  The neck is too big!  Their arms don't even reach the sleeves.  I'm waiting till they are bigger to use those.  For now, I still swaddle, but sometimes I put them in a onesie and then a onepiece footed suit that fits snugly around their body.  Have you tried a swaddle blanket that has the velcro on it?  My babies are just big enough to fit in one of those, they seem to work okay.

    They don't make sleepsacks small enough for our babies I guess :(

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  • JordandiceJordandice

    You can buy the sleep sacks that have the swaddle feature...those work really good for up to 10 pounds. ?They are much more secure than just regular swaddling with a blanket. ?The halo swaddle sleepsacks are also smaller than the regular Halo "small" size sack, which start at 10 pounds. ?My DD is 10 pounds, and those ones are still big on her. ?

    Also, if you get the swaddle sleepsacks, you can remove the swaddle part of it and just use the sleepsack until she outgrows it if you choose to stop swaddling. ?

    We just put a gown or sleeper on DD underneath, unless we use the fleece swaddle sleepsack, in which case we'll just use a onesie.


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  • sunflowergrlsunflowergrl member

    I love sleep sacs.  I use both, with sleeves and sleeveless.  Under the ones with sleeves, LO is in a short sleeve onesie and a cotton sleeper.  The sleeveless ones, she is in a short sleeve onesie and a fleece sleeper.  The ones with sleeves are long enough so I pull them over her hands and they help keep her warm.  :o)

    ETA:  LO hated swaddling so we went straight to sleep sacs

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  • fanni717fanni717
    We have soooo many sleep sacks and have yet to use any of them because he is so small. ?He was born 5 lbs 14 oz and at 2 months and a week is just apporoaching 11 pounds. ?They say they work for 0-9 months so maybe we will use them in the late spring or maybe even the fall.
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  • amesinhollandamesinholland
    We use the sleeveless kind and she wears jammies underneath.
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  • naflmjnaflmj member
    We have the halo sleep sack with swaddle in the nb size and used it since 6 lbs.
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  • StephanieDeanneStephanieDeanne
    I second the Halo Swaddle Sleepsacks.  LO is a preemie, so she was pretty small when she came home and they worked wonderfully, we got the newborn size at first, she is just about into the smalls now. 
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  • stina-bearstina-bear member
    My little guy was 7 lbs when we brought him home from the hospital, and we've been using the Halo swaddle sleepsack since about day one.  It's a great, secure swaddle, with room for his legs to kick a little if he wants, and the newborn swaddle size fits him perfectly.  We use the fleece ones, and have him in a footed sleeper underneath (it's on the cold side in our apartment at night).
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  • SamsMom91SamsMom91

    My aunt bought me a Carter's 0-9 sleepsack for DS2 when he was born.  It was too big on him in the neck/arms area and he was born weighing 11 pounds, 10 ounces! 

    So yeah, I have no idea how you ladies with average sized babies can start them out as newborns using these.  We use the Swaddle Me blankets and went up a size when he got too big for the smaller size.  

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  • Piranha54Piranha54

    imagestephaniedeanne:
    I second the Halo Swaddle Sleepsacks.  LO is a preemie, so she was pretty small when she came home and they worked wonderfully, we got the newborn size at first, she is just about into the smalls now. 

    love them too.  we also use the fleece swaddlemes. 

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