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Breaking the swaddle w/o CIO?

ZistaZista
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LO long outgrew the swaddle, and we transitioned fairly painlessly into the magic sleepsuit.  However he's now outgrowing that.  The couple times we've tried to get him to sleep without it, he's a crawling, clawing, grabbing, exhausted mess.  He just can't seem to settle down.  If we keep him in bed with us, he's almost literally clawing my eyes out (for almost 2 hours last night), and if we put him in the crib, he cries. 

We don't want to CIO, at least not this young and not when he's also dealing with teething.  Any ideas?

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Re: Breaking the swaddle w/o CIO?

  • scrh2010scrh2010
    I've been using our larger, square baby blankets to swaddle my LO at night and sometimes during naptime. I don't know how big your LO is, though. 
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  • SinafeySinafey member

    first, sorry about formatting and caps my phone is being funny.  im still swaddling at eleven months, so im certainly no expert on breaking the habit but my plan is to try the woombie next.  i think they come in pretty large sizes and it looks like it might not restrain lo as tightly, so im hoping it will be a nice halfway point.  

    if you are still wanting to swaddle we do the escape proof swaddle with any small blanket plus an aden and anais swaddle blanket.  it works like a charm. 

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  • CassianCassian

    We broke the swaddle last month without CIO. We went through the same thing with the clawing and thrashing. We bedshare, and there were definitely a couple sleepless nights, but my advice is, if you can get through those first couple nights, it gets way better. It took us about 5 days before she started sleeping like a log. Each day getting a little better.

    We knew that it would be rough, and we kept putting it off for this reason. Her growing out of her swaddles finally prompted us to do it. Can you just face the other direction in bed?

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    We went straight from the velcro swaddle to a regular sleep sack.
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  • ZistaZista

    Thanks, Cassian, it helps knowing it will end some day.  I'm not sure about facing the other way... when he's not clawing my face, he's trying to get at me and wailing the entire time.  :)   

    We really do want to break the swaddle.  We moved into the sleep suit, which got him used to having his hands free, but it's heavy so it deadens his movements and still helps him settle.  Going back to a swaddle would be going backwards, and we'd have to start all over again when the inevitable happens.  Not to mention that the reason we stopped in the first place was that he's so strong he was breaking out of even the straight jacket swaddle.     

    I'm surprised more people haven't gone through this?  MrsB, I'm jealous... my LO clearly isn't making the switch without a fight.    

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  • CinnamonBunCinnamonBun member
    We swaddled until last month. LO just could not sleep with out it. She outgrew her swaddle sleepsack, so I began using her old hospital swaddling blanket. She really only needed her arms swaddled, and could easily break out in her sleep. It provided a nice transition to no longer swaddling. I never forced it one way or the other, she let me know when she was ready.
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