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August 2011 Moms
latinachica29
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For those who swaddled
latinachica29
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If you swaddled your LO how and when did you stop or are you still swaddling?
We had read and watched The Happiest Baby on the Block during my pregnancy and thank God, because Easton does not sleep without being swaddled. This includes naps too. He wasn't always swaddled for naps though, just recently.
I wanted to stop swaddling at 3 months because he's gotten the aden and anais swaddling blanket over near his face at night and it worries me. Then I tried a Kiddopotamus swaddler and last night he woke up screaming even though he slept in it fine the previous night. So then I tried to see if he'd sleep unswaddled and he would not sleep to save his life.
His bedtime is around 6-6:30 but he didn't sleep until 11pm when I reswaddled him with his the aden blanket. I guess he's not ready yet to sleep unswaddled and I'm fine with that, but when will it stop?
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Re: For those who swaddled
Funny you posted this because last night I decided to try letting my LO sleep unswaddled. Didn't work and now I'm EXHAUSTED! She fell asleep around 11pm (normal time for her) but was up every hour until about 3am when I swaddled her and then she fell fast asleep until about 7am. Usually she sleeps from 11am until 7am when she's swaddled.
He just slept for 8 hours straight! Wow, I definitely need to continue swaddling. Too bad I cant say the same for me since Ii have to get up and pump.
And he just fell back asleep again!
So, we swaddled, and our LO loved it, and slept great. About a 2 weeks ago, she started scooting all around the crib, and we have a crib wedge in there, and she was kind of scooting sideways on it, and rolling down. I went in there, and she had the swaddle blanket over her face, and had rolled down the wedge on her side, but was almost face down, and it totally freaked me out!!!
We went cold turkey off the swaddle right then and there. Not the best decision, she can barely get her self down to sleep. We have taken to wearing her in the moby (which is just like a swaddle)....to get her to sleep, and then putting her in the crib.
I don't know if we are doing the right thing, but I am too freaked out to swaddle her again.
LOVE Happiest Baby on the Block!
DS has slept 10 hours straight every night since we swaddled him (white noise too) so I ain't about to stop any time soon.
We use the swaddlestrap from annaandeve.com. It is a miracle worker. He had outgrown all his swaddle blanket and always sweats through the Halo one (and gets out of it). We are down to one arm being swaddled now, and he'll be 4m tomorrow. I don't see us stopping until he is in the crib and can roll. Currently he is in the RNP and won't stay on TT long enough to even try to roll.
Question: What is the point of swaddling with the arms out? Isn't the point to keep the arms from flailing?
We were swaddling from the beginning (first in a blanket then swaddleme) and LO did fine. She was not STTN but I don't think the swaddle had anything to do with it. Then about 2 weeks ago she started rolling over to her belly so we stopped swaddling cold turkey. At night she does pretty well (6-9 hours on average), but has a tougher time with naps. During the day when she is not swaddled, she often startles herself awake, or will roll over and then whine that she is on her belly... So sometimes we still swaddle her arms during the day. I am not worried because I am not asleep and check on her very frequently.