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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
updates: For those who stopped swaddling...
How did you do it? Did you quit cold turkey or did you gradually stop? How long did it take LO to adjust?
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Re: updates: For those who stopped swaddling...
Cold turkey. DS scooted himself all the way down into is miracle blanket up to his eyes. It scared the $hit out of me and we stopped then and there. I guess he was about 3 months? He adjusted well and actually started sleeping well without it.
Good luck!
cold turkey.
DD never liked being swaddled. I wonder if she would sleep more soundly if she was still swaddled but she seems happier with being able to have her hands up by her face
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Cold turkey. DD was 6.5 months (4 months adjusted). She was breaking out of her swaddle and waking herself up every hour, so we decided to stop swaddling. The first night was ROUGH! But she quickly adjusted and is back to waking only once a night. It helps for her to sleep on her side with a lovey (she can roll over now and we have a video monitor so I don't worry much).
We are about to stop along with sleep training as well, per the pedi. Have to stop the swaddle because of rolling.
I am concerned that sleep training is not the solution to the face rubbing that is happening, which is what wakes him up and keeps him awake if I put him down unswaddled. Truth is, I don't really have a problem nursing to sleep since he only wakes up once.
But I don't have a better idea to keep him from rubbing his face at night then to let him figure it out. Which apparently needs to involve sleep training. I am not sure whether staying in the room (as per Sleep Lady Shuffle) would even make a difference for him vs. leaving and checking/soothing at intervals.
I am shocked by how many people were able to go cold turkey, good for you! We were not so lucky. First I bought a Magic Sleep Suit and it was terrible, he clearly was not ready, and still sleeping amazingly in the swaddle at that time, and was no where close to rolling. Then he became obsessed with trying to roll, even in his sleep, and the the 4MW or whatever hit, and sleep was terrible in general, but the swaddle was just making him mad. So we started doing 1 arm out at naps around 4 months, at the advice of his Dr., thinking it would not affect my sleep as much. Then we went back to the magic sleep suit at night, since his night sleep was crap anyways. I didn't do the sleepsuit at the time in the day since ours was getting small and annoying. He was capable of doing 8 hours some nights with the sleep suit, so I knew then that any crappy nights we had were not the issue of swaddle or no swaddle. After a week or so of 1 arm out for naps, I put him in a sleep sack for naps with a lovey, to help his "crazy arm" (the one that had still been swaddled lol). Since then I have gotten a new bigger sleep suit and have been using it for naps too. Naps have become better recently, so again, know any night problems have to do with other issues.
It was a long month for us, definitely not cold turkey, but gradual seemed to have worked for us. Good luck!