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When did you stop swaddling?

tootlebugtootlebug member
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If you swaddled?

 My girls will be four months next thurs....and they still need o r swaddled for bed.  Half of the time they have broke out of it by morning.  And we are talking miracle Blanket.....the halo swaddle cannot contain them.  

Ive tried to do naps with the arms out but they just don't sleep as well.  They only roll over from tummy to back.  Although one has started to launch herself to the side sometimes. 

Land im sorry for typos...I have a really hard time on message boards with the iPad. 

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Re: When did you stop swaddling?

  • Kelli&JedKelli&Jed
    By the time they could wiggle out of a swaddle on their own they were over being swaddled.  One day I realized I had stopped doing it all together so I asked DH if he still swaddled the boys and he said he didn't.  We didn't stop on purpose it was more of a natural thing since the doys didn't like it.
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  • tootlebugtootlebug member
    See they wiggle out of it...not after a long nap but they sleep 10-12 hours straight at night....so they do bust out sometimes.   But they won't go down without it.  Their arms start flying all over....it's the ams that's the problem.  I think one might be getting close....but she definitely can't go all night with the arms out.
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  • besu-chanbesu-chan

    I hear ya. I tried several times to get rid of those miracle blankets, starting at around 4 months I think. Every time I tried, it was a nightmare. Usually I would try for an hour to get them down and would end with two crazy overtired, very upset babies. Or even if I managed to get one to fall asleep without it, They would wake up after 20 min or something. They were both breaking out of it quite a bit to the point that DH had to be there for every bedtime because he was the only one that could swaddle them tightly enough to have any chance of keeping them in. I tried cold turkey, I tried one arm at a time- nothing. So we just kept swaddling. 

     

    I kept waiting for that magical day when they would decide they didn't want it anymore- that day never came. When they were approaching 6 months, my bigger DD finally got to the point where she just literally wouldn't fit plus she was breaking out of it every hour at night, so we had to stop. My good sleeper was suddenly taking about 45 minutes to go to sleep every time, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and definitely not as bad as it had been when I had tried before. Now she's fine. My other girl we tried to de-swaddle on the same day (figured we might as well do them at once, right?) but she woke up every.30.minutes that night until we finally put her back in. She has always been super active and sensitive to stimuli, so it was just too much. Then about a week later she learned to roll back to front and became obsessed with it. When she started waking up every couple of hours because she had rolled onto her belly, I knew we had to bite the bullet. We got a sleep sack with a swaddle (which we had tried to use before but quickly realized that they can break out of that thing in like 30 seconds flat) and wrapped the swaddle around her chest with her arms still out so that she could have that wrapped-up feeling but still be able to use her arms. It still takes much longer to put her down and I have to hold her down on the bed most of the time to keep her from rolling over as soon as I set her down in the crib, but it's getting better.

     

    So to answer your question, 6 months. And also, I feel your pain, and I have no advice to offer. LOL sorry but hopefully that helps somehow? :) 

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  • ougrad1ougrad1 member
    It sounds like you are out of the sleep sacks now.  We had great luck with the zippered sleep sacks but, we keep the house pretty cold at night.
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  • lmydogallylmydogally
    When they started busting their arms out of it and crying when we put them in it at about 3 months.  I unswaddled them by leaving their arms out for a few nights and then just moved them to a sleep sack.  No weird transition or anything.  They let me know they were over it and I set them free.
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  • Mrs. AliceMrs. Alice member

    When they started rolling, so about 5 months adjusted age.  Mine didn't sleep any worse without the swaddle, but then again I wasn't swaddling their arms in anyway because they hated that.

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  • masked_rose86masked_rose86
    When we started sleep training due to 5+ wake ups in an 8-9 hour period at about 4 1/2 months (pediatrician recommended). It took one night to get them used to it, they are still chronic "waker-upers" up several times a night to nurse but not up because of not being swaddled. I'm really glad I broke them of it when I did simply because it was only about 2-3 weeks later that S learned to roll from back to belly. That would have forced breaking of the swaddle, so I'm glad it was already done!
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