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Swaddle question

MrsEllis10MrsEllis10 member
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I am about to go nuts with this kid!! Ok, not really, but I really can't figure her out. DD1 hated the swaddle so this is all new to me. DD2 will not sleep unless swaddled. She has been the easiest baby. She gets a tad fussy and starts getting a little "crazy arms" I swaddle and she is out. Super easy and content. The past few days are a totally different story. When she is swaddled she spends the entire time trying to bring her arms to her chin fussing the entire time. So I unswaddle. She cries and fusses until I swaddle her again. Then the whole process repeats over and over. My content wonderful easy baby has become super difficult and I can not figure her out. I have tried rocking her to sleep without the swaddle and with the swaddle. Everything!

Any ideas? Is this a growing out of the swaddle stage? If so, any tips on how to deal?
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Re: Swaddle question

  • Gorillakisses15Gorillakisses15
    Try swaddling with one arm out and make sure the other is bent across her chest up toward her face. We didn't get the super cranky days before we tried it, but I was guessing that she didn't want both arms in. You could also try a loose swaddle or even leaving both arms out and see.
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  • veslickveslick member
    If you do pacifiers, you could try that with a swaddle. My LO fusses in her swaddle sometimes because she wants to comfort suck her hands but once she gets a paci, she's content.
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  • MrsEllis10MrsEllis10 member
    imageLoisLane23:

    imageveslick:
    If you do pacifiers, you could try that with a swaddle. My LO fusses in her swaddle sometimes because she wants to comfort suck her hands but once she gets a paci, she's content.

    DD does this too. If I swaddle and give the paci, and sometimes I even have to hold her like I'm BF'ing but with the paci in her mouth, she gets very calm.



    I already do the paci. She loves it and has it at all times. I'm thinking I'm going to have to try a one arm swaddle.
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  • JulySpark05JulySpark05 member
    Unfortunately DD will not take a paci so I usually have to breastfeed after I put her in the swaddle in order to calm her down and she will go right to sleep. I have ordered the woombie so anxious to try it out. Good luck!
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  • kbradshaw9kbradshaw9 member

    imageLoisLane23:
    Try the woombie. It's amazing and she can't get out of it.

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  • Randa&JermRanda&Jerm member
    I used to swaddle DD1 with both of her arms out.  She would grunt and fight until she could get out and then would be content.
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  • vic8504vic8504 member
    I have swaddled DD with both of her arms out since we came home from the hospital. She is 10wks old and sleeps 9-11 hours at night. (knock on wood)


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