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What's next after swaddling?

0127200701272007
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Hi All,

 A little confused - DD is 4.5 months now and she has been sleeping in her crib for the past two weeks. She is starting to get really squirmy and rotates in her sleep. I usually find her in the morning rotated 90 degrees from the last position that I put her in at night. Also, sometimes she rolls halfway to the right and plays with the crib rails. 

 What should I do? I am super worried about her rolling over completely swaddled and not able to roll  herself back or rotating to the point where she starts hitting her head against the crib rails.

 I tried the sleep sack tonight and that did not work so decided to swaddle her. 

Any advise would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Re: What's next after swaddling?

  • TexasHarmonyTexasHarmony
    Sleep positioner?
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  • CareBear01CareBear01
    You can try swaddling with one arm or 2 arms out - she still might be calm enough to go to sleep with her bottom half swaddled, but still could push away, if necessary.
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  • michellebellemichellebelle
    We used a sleep positioner until she was able to wriggle herself out of it too.  Then we just had about a half a dozen pacifiers in her bed at all time because that was the only soothing that would work (well that and my boob, but that didn't help mommy get any sleep).
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  • QuizzleQuizzle

    Can she go to sleep without being swaddled? There's no rule that says she still needs to be swaddled if she doesn't need it.

    Honestly, we haven't swaddled DD in any traditional sense since she was a few weeks old. We gave up after she kept breaking out repeatedly. 

    Now she sleeps with a blanket wrapped around her like a tube for extra warmth or sometimes (flame away!) just draped over her from the waist down. She's rotated quite a bit  in her crib -- I've found her facing the opposite way sometimes. She hasn't hit her head yet. And maybe I'm just a low key mom, but I'm not too worried about her rolling over. She has excellent head control.

    If she needs to be swaddled, I'd just swaddle her from the armpits down.  When we were still trying to actually swaddle her that's what we'd do.


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  • smitt2619smitt2619
    Is she rolling yet?  if so, it is safest to stop swaddling.  Try doing one arm out for awhile, and then both.  She could sleep with both arms out (just her belly wrapped) for as long as she needs to.  But it would be dangerous if she rolled while swaddled.  We had been using Halo Sleepsack Swaddles, which I found to work really well during the weaning process especially.  It was really easy to safely keep the swaddle in place when both of his arms were out.  And eventually we removed the swaddle wings and he slept in just the sleepsack part.  Good luck!
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  • 0127200701272007
    Thanks All. I swaddled DD tonight with one arm out. Will start weaning her off the swaddle. I tried using the Halo sleep sack for her nap this afternoon and that failed miserably. Will try the Halo swaddle band thingy with one arm then both arms starting tomorrow.
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