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October 2011 Moms
hopefulinCO
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Weaning from swaddle....
hopefulinCO
member
Hey ladies!
For those of you that have stopped swaddling, how did you do it? A little at a time or cold turkey? I'm afraid this child will still have to be swaddled by the time she goes to college. FYI - she's not yet rolling from back to belly.....
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Re: Weaning from swaddle....
we quit cold turkey. DD has started sleeping terribly anyway, and has had diarhea for over 2 weeks now and needed to be changed each time she woke up, so it just wasn't worth it anymore, so last week we quit swaddling, it didn't seem to make much difference with her staying asleep because she was waking every 2-3 hours anyway (down from a 6-7 hour first stretch). The hardest part for us was getting her to go to sleep because she will flail her arms to wake herself back up when she's first going down. We just kind of hold her arms down until she falls asleep then she is pretty good... She's a little harder to transfer from our arms to the bassinet and stay asleep but if she wakes we turn on her mobile and she usually falls back asleep most of the time.
Good Luck!
Did it cold turkey a few weeks ago and moved her into the halo sleeper. She still shows occasional startle reflex during her nap time in the day, but seems to do fine at night. The first night sans swaddle was a bit rough (she sleeps next to our bed) and we also moved her out of the RnP at the same time but after a week or so she resumed her normal night time sleeping pattern.
Recently I tried to bring out the swaddle for nap (her roving spider hands all over her face kept her from napping) but she would have none of that.
We tried doing one arm out for awhile, but then DD just decided to take that one arm and use it to pull out her pacifier. We went back to swaddling both arms for about a week, then she started rolling from back to belly.
So we decided to just try the sleep sack one night - it worked wonderfully, because DD decided she is a tummy sleeper and she could just roll right over and fall asleep on her tummy!
DD rolls pretty regularly from front/back and back/front...the only way she falls asleep on her own without being swaddled is on her belly. I know my pedi doesn't love the idea, but I realized that even when I put her on her back, she was flipping over so now we put her on her tummy. It is like a natural swaddle - she tucks her legs up, bum in the air, and tucks her arms under her, three fingers in her mouth and lights out.
We actually STARTED swaddling again at 13 weeks to wean her from the RnP (we had not swaddled since seven weeks). Then on Sat morning I found her on her side/almost tummy IN the halo swaddle sack and that scared me so no more swaddles!
We swaddled with one arm out for a week and then switched to a sleepsack. DS wasn't a great sleeper to begin with and weaning the swaddle didn't help matters, BUT he started rolling within 2 days after we cut the swaddle and once he realized he likes sleeping on his tummy (after several days of freakouts on his part), things are much better.
I really thought we'd never get rid of the swaddle either, but now that it is gone, I'm pretty glad we weaned when we did. Best of luck!!