Do you still swaddle?

Redsoxchick · February 2012

Starting last week DS has stopped liking being swaddled, he likes having his arms so as soon as I swaddle him he just wiggles out, so now I just tuck a blanket around his bottom half, I feel like he slept better swaddled though!

lvrunningirlie · February 2012

I'm in the same boat... except my guy isn't even 3 weeks yet. He always gets his arms out and if I somehow manage to get him wrapped tight enough to keep his arms in he twists and fights to get out.

Lhand11 · February 2012

We have been rocking the half swaddle since we got home. He loves his hands too much!

inlovewithB · February 2012

We still swaddle. I have tried to put her down without being swaddled and she only sleeps about 30 minutes. Now that she is rolling over I really want to get her to sleep without being wrapped up.

mintea · February 2012

Our LO has busted her hands out of swaddles from the get go but then we read Happiest Baby on the Block. It explains that just because they break out of a swaddle or wrestle with it doesn't mean they dislike being swaddled... they don't even have that much voluntary control over what their arms do yet.

Around 3 months old they can choose to put their hands in their mouth or whatnot and have the physical control to do that, but before that their arms if out are more likely to just flail and upset them. The key, it said, was to swaddle very very tightly.

Lena122 · February 2012

I'm planning to buy a magic sleep suit when DS starts fighting the swaddle.

BuckeyeBabymaker · February 2012

Yes. If not his arms flail and he wakes himself up.

delg23 · February 2012

Yes, have you tried to reswaddle him if he fights it? It might have just been uncomfortable the way it was. Or try one arm out.

rebelina1 · February 2012

My DS started breaking through his swaddle blankets around that age but I also felt like he slept better swaddled. We switched to the Miracle Blanket and it solved the problem. He is unable to break free in this blanket and sleeps so much better.

Katechavez · February 2012

We rock a half swaddle in a "Swaddle Me" at bedtime in the RnP and it works great. She is 2 weeks old and being able to suck her thumb comforts her, and I want to make sure she has access to them Big Smile

Mustardseed2007 · February 2012

This. Our baby is getting pretty close to the 3 month mark and we still do it. We just actually bought a larger Halo swaddle sack for him to keep his arms in. We couldn't seem to get him tight enough to stay in the swaddle using a blanket so we switched to the Halos and it works much better (Halos also seem to work better for us than the Summers swaddling thingys, though we used to use the Summers sometimes).

cinderella4282 · February 2012

Swaddle still works great for us. DD grunts like she is trying to break out when I first put her down at night, but then after a few minutes she settles down and goes to sleep. I only swaddle her at night though.

xraychick07 · February 2012

We still swaddle at over 3 months and don't plan to stop anytime soon! She sleeps 10 hours EVERY night! =D

dizzycooks · February 2012

We are using the summer swaddles at night and I try to leave her unswaddled during the day to 'practice' sleeping with her hands out, but if she is too restless I swaddle her up.

couponmom431 · February 2012

We used to swaddle but DS figured out how to break free.

Now he wakes himself up by throwing his arms/hands around.

eewhite5 · February 2012

We use the halo sleep sack and DD loves it. I have tried to put her down eithout being swaddled and she sleeps for about 45 mins. With the swaddle she sleeps for 5 or so hours at night.

Mrs_Est11.11.06 · February 2012

Lhand11:
We have been rocking the half swaddle since we got home. He loves his hands too much!

This is us too! We use swaddle me Velcro sacks and receiving blankets

Jaybird1113 · February 2012

my little man is 7 weeks and still swaddles. swaddling is a God send! my little man would wake himself constantly when he wasn't wrapped up like a burrito.when i first tried swaddling i would wrap him up while he was awake and he would not have it, he would fight until his hands were free. so now i prepare to swaddle him for naps or bedtime and wait to enclose his hands until he's pretty sleepy or asleep. it works like a charm!

JeniLovesNeil · February 2012

We still swaddle DS at nighttime and he manages to get his hands out every night. But the hospital said that it's better for their development for them to have their hands out so they can touch their face.

sunnyday016 · February 2012

eewhite5:
We use the halo sleep sack and DD loves it. I have tried to put her down eithout being swaddled and she sleeps for about 45 mins. With the swaddle she sleeps for 5 or so hours at night.

We're using the halo sleep sack too. DS will sleep about 4 hours swaddled at night. We'll swaddle as long as possible (until he starts rolling over).

shannong416 · March 2012

Babies R Us and some other places sell Infant Swaddlers. They are wonderful for little wigglers. They are blankets with a closed bottom and velcro to held the blanket in place. They were very helpful to me within the first few weeks.

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