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Swaddling

jc0n15jc0n15 member
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So my DD has been an awesome sleeper from day one. She has been sleeping close to 12 hours a night since she was 3 months old. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that she loves to be swaddled. I have been stretching out the swaddling but now she is getting too big for the miracle blanket. When she is not swaddled she will wake up at like 4:30. So I am a little hesitant to stop the swaddling but know I can't swaddle her for the rest of her life.

Has anyone had this issue or have gone through the getting rid of the swaddle faze?? I have the sleep sack but its her hands that wake her up....she will rub her eyes and that wakes her up.

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  • emberlee3emberlee3 member
    Yes, I thought I would never sleep again when I stopped swaddling DD. I had no choice because she started rolling back to tummy so had to have arms free. It took a week or so of terrible sleep, but she is pretty much used to her arms, now :
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  • violajackviolajack member

    Oh my goodness with the eye rubbing! My DS does that too. He'll go from almost asleep to wide awake and crying just because he keeps rubbing his eyes and that gets him all worked up. We haven't swaddled since he was 8 weeks old, but the eye rubbing himself awake thing has just started in the last few weeks, so I'm afraid you might have run into that no matter what. 

    It does seem like he's slowly getting less frantic about it and not always waking himself up with it, so maybe it's a phase? *crosses fingers* 

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  • giggles0918giggles0918 member

    My LO has never slept thorugh the night so I'm very jealous of you getting to sleep till 4:30 am!! 

    We put one arm out and then switched arms out being swaddled for naps and the night and after a few days went cold turkey.  It took her longer to go down but after a few days she got the hang of it.

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  • Danaz1Danaz1 member
    Magic sleep suit helped and we still use it now If I don't put it on him he wakes up
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  • jc0n15jc0n15 member
    Thanks everyone. We tried weaning her with the one arm and she woke up a few times. So I decided to just put her in the sleep sack and take our chances....she did awesome. I guess its no fun if your arms are already out. She is back to sleeping through the night.
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