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No swaddling=No sleep

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We've recently stopped swaddling our almost 6 month old because she can roll over.  Now her STTN is pretty much gone. Any ideas on how to help our little one? She will sleep through the night if she is laying on top of me with my arms around her or for VERY short periods of time in her bassinet.  We've tried the sleep sack. Any other ideas? Anyone else going through this?  
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Re: No swaddling=No sleep

  • gitiggrgitiggr member
    Did you stop cold turkey? If so, maybe try swaddling with one arm out for a while, then both. We're still trying to wean DS. He has been rolling back to front for about 6 weeks now. He has no problems rolling back to his back even when swaddled so I'm not too concerned. He also prefers sleeping on his tummy now too. It's taken us a long time to wean because he'd just rather play with his paci, the wall, the crib slats, etc than sleep. GL
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  • calibroncosfan5968calibroncosfan5968 member
    I'll try swaddling with one arm out... We did stop cold turkey and that probably wasn't be best of ideas.  
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  • Danaz1Danaz1 member
    magic sleep suit helped us.
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  • ladygeek83ladygeek83 member

    We stopped swaddling (cold turkey) when our baby was about 2 1/2 months old, because my husband discovered he had moved in his crib one night, and figured it wasn't safe anymore. At that point, he was sleeping a continuous 6-8 hour stretch at night, which was wonderful - but he was never the same after that. Over the last month or two, he developed a bad night waking habit (waking up crying 4-5 times a night), so a week ago we got a child sleep book and decided to start sleep training him, which is working. We're now back to waking/feeding just once a night, which is manageable.

    Good luck - hoping your baby will have a better time being weaned from the swaddle than mine did, but you're not alone in noticing a sleep regression when discontinuing the swaddle.

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  • piedpiper07piedpiper07 member
    My DS wakes up every 2 hours WHILE swaddled. When we stopped swaddling him, he legitimately did not go to sleep until 5am. So I said screw that and put the swaddle back on him. He doesn't roll in his sleep at all or move so that doesn't worry me too much. I have no idea how I am going to get rid of that thing.
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  • gr8dancer_27gr8dancer_27 member
    We've tried to stop swaddling but it hasn't gone well for us either. We are swaddling with one arm out for now and that seems to be going OK.
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  • kandybarandcokandybarandco member

    The only thing we found worked was to put him down on his side instead of his back. We tried weaning, we tried cold turkey, it was miserable.

    We switched him to a sleep sack (so he's still somewhat confined, but his arms are free and he can move around fairly easily), and after a week or so of being put down on his side, we started putting him back down on his back and we're back up to our swaddled sleeping hours, so huzzah.

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