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When did you stop swaddling?

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How old was your baby when you stopped swaddling?  Did you go to a sleep sack after or just a footed sleeper?
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Re: When did you stop swaddling?

  • PrimRoseMamaPrimRoseMama member
    2 months old.
    We went to the magic sleep suit.
    Once DS started rolling he sleeps just in a fleece footsie PJ.


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  • Stacey209Stacey209 member
    2nd night home from the hospital.  My daughter kicked her feet so much that I couldn't keep the blanket on.  I went to a sleep sack which worked okay but didn't seem to keep her feet warm.  She kicked off her socks in. The best thing for us was a long sleeve onesie with feet.  
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  • EmR22EmR22 member
    This past week at 4.5 months. He now is just in a onesie and warm footed Pjs.
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  • brown214brown214 member
    Our ped recommended as soon as lo was rolling over. We stopped around the 3 month mark because of the rolling and switched to a sleep sack. The first night he spend the first few hours rolling all around the pnp but after that he was fine.
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  • wolcottmomwolcottmom member
    3 months!  She HATED being swaddled or even put into a sleep sack.  She would kick, punch, escape... anything to get out of her swaddle.  :)
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  • ELauren88ELauren88 member
    3 weeks. She never liked her arms being swaddled. Seriously, she came out of the womb hating her arms swaddled. So that was just a hop-skip-and a jump from nixing it all together.
     
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  • galaxymom830galaxymom830 member
    We haven't stopped yet.  She sleeps so much better when she is swaddled.  She's starting to roll from her back to her side, so once we transition her from her swing to a crib we might stop.  But for right now, there's nowhere for her to roll and she sleeps well with it.  She fights it sometimes, but always eventually calms down.  She knows now that swaddle = calm down and sleep :)  I swaddled her after her shots the other day and it worked!  She calmed down and took her bottle.  I'll be really sad when we can't swaddle her anymore.
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  • roo1ooroo1oo member
    We never swaddled the arms, but I still wrap LO in a blanket because he sleeps better. We're about to transition from the rock n play to the crib and once that transition is complete we'll stop swaddling too. LO is 3 months.
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  • chiboo9chiboo9 member
    We stopped swaddling naps at 3 months to start the weaning process. And then completely stopped with nighttime swaddling at 5 months. She naps with just footed PJ's. At night, she's in footed PJ's and a sleep sack.
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  • Carnation77Carnation77 member
    edited January 2014
    1 day old - he HATES being swaddled.  My son is seriously in love with his arms and hands.  We do use a halo fleece sleep sack over cotton footed PJ's at night.  He sleeps like a rock when he's actually asleep.  During the day he just passes out in whatever clothes he's wearing.
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  • trudibelltrudibell member
    We stopped right around 3 months because LO hated being swaddled.  We shifted straight to footed jammies.
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  • kje120kje120 member
    We're still swaddling, but with his arms out. I'm sure we'll ditch the swaddle all together soon.
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  • kelli&davekelli&dave member
    My son is not quite 3 months yet and we have already ditched the swaddlers. From about 1 or 2 weeks, he would not tolerate having his arms tucked in. For a while we just dressed him in something warm and wrapped his lower half. He started kicking himself out of that pretty quickly as well. I guess he is a strange baby. He's always seemed quite uncomfortable when swaddled.
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  • diana.filipidiana.filipi member
    Between 2-5 months.  With both DS we switched to the Magic Sleep Suit once swaddling became too difficult.  With DD swaddling was never hard.  My first boy was out of the sleep suit by 6 months.  Our 2nd DS was out of it by 4 months (he was into it at 3 weeks!)
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  • hmlynch84hmlynch84 member
    We also switched to the magic sleep suit a couple weeks ago. It's been going great. He's nice and cozy, but not too hot. I put him in it for naps too and he sleeps really well in his crib during the day and at night.
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  • emordaemorda member
    We stopped at 3-4 weeks old when she kept pulling her hands out each time. Dd slept fine once we stopped and we never did it again.
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  • luvmygirlssluvmygirlss member
    as soon as DD rolled. It's dangerous after that...
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