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when did you stop swaddling?

umdbrideumdbride
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Our pedi is recommending to try and ditch the swaddle at 2 months or so...but so far DS is not coping well without it. 

If I swaddle, I can usually put DS down drowsy but awake and he'll drift off on his own without too much trouble.  Without the swaddle it's near impossible to get him to fall asleep or stay asleep for more than 10 minutes.  He hits himself in the face and pulls out his pacifier constantly or wakes himself up when his arms hit the bed (if he had them up by his face).

How long did you swaddle for and how did you get your LO to sleep without it?

 

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  • ArtslvrArtslvr
    With the girls, about a month old.  With DS, he's almost 5 months old and we still swaddle him at night (not naps).  He freaking loves it and who am I to argue?
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  • WinesNotWhinesWinesNotWhines
    Two months is early. I wouldn't force it if he sleeps better swaddled. I think we fully swaddled M until he was 4 months and then we transitioned him by doing a 1-arm swaddle for another month.
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  • mssaintmssaint

    J is 3 months and still swaddled. In fact, we started swaddling him for naps again and it has helped - he's taken 3 hour naps for the past two days.

    He will nap unswaddled but ends up waking up sooner. I've never put him to sleep at night without the swaddle (maybe once when he was about 6 weeks or so), but he definitely startles and thrashes enough that I'm sure he'd wake himself up. 

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  • mac_249mac_249
    We swaddled our oldest till he was around 4 months or so.  Our youngest decided he didn't like the swaddle about a month ago -- he kept busting out of it and wanted his arms free.  So a little earlier than our oldest but pretty close in age.
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  • kafunderkafunder member
    We tried several times to stop swaddling around 3 months but they weren't ready for it. We tried again around 4.5 months and switched to a sleep sack, and they started sleeping much better. By that point, they were breaking out of their swaddle every night, and DD was starting to roll around.
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  • belizeitornotbelizeitornot
    H is 4 months next week and she still sleeps swaddled. We tried it on accident one night (it was too hot and we didn't want to overheat her) and it was a disaster. She flails a LOT and whacks herself in the head, waking her up. Without a swaddle, she'll sleep 1/2 hr max - that's what we do for her morning and evening naps. But if we want any quality sleep out of her, she must be swaddled. I dread having to transition out of it.
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  • tomandcourttomandcourt

    Whoa, 2 months? That seems early to me. We swaddled until DS was 6 months and started rolling over. Before that, he really liked it and it helped him sleep (looking back it seems crazy how burrito-like it was . . .).

    Anyway, we did one arm out, then both, then switched him to a sleep sack. There were a couple of nights when he had a hard time falling asleep (like if he rolled over and couldn't roll himself back) but it wasn't too bad.

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  • umdbrideumdbride
    Thanks ladies!  I was dreading the thought of losing the swaddle so soon, he really doesn't sleep well without it and that means less sleep for us too!
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  • tracy042206tracy042206
    Gosh, not til about 6mo with Maggie and then maybe 4mo with Molly.
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  • veruca5839veruca5839 member
    DD is 4 months and we just stopped swaddling her arms last weekend.  We tried the one arm swaddle around 3 months and it was a disaster, so we held off a few weeks to try again.  She started breaking out of the swaddle every night and waking up at random times.  Normally she sleeps great at night without any problems.  Plus she has started rolling back to tummy.  Last weekend we tried leaving both arms out (we still put the swaddle me around her torso and legs because it's warmer than her sleep sack, and I think she still likes the closeness feeling)....she whined and fussed a bit throughout the night (didn't wake up though) and did fine.  She's doing really well with it now.
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  • smitt2619smitt2619
    We were using Halo Sleepsack Swaddles, and the package says to stop when LO shows signs of either breaking loose, rolling over, or not wanting it.  It's not so much a specific age as what he is doing developmentally.  We swaddled until 4 months, weaned gradually, and switched him to a regular sleepsack.   
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  • CharityLaneCharityLane
    I'm just curious, don't know much about swaddling - dd or ds is still snug inside at this point - but why would you *have* to try and stop swaddling at all?  for those of you who tried to stop it at certain month marks, what's the rationale?  what reason does the dr have for suggesting to cut it off?
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