I miss swaddling :(

[AngelofTroy]

Last night Micah rolled onto his tummy while swaddled so tonight we've had to go cold turkey and it is NOT going well!

Has anyone got any experience of this? How long did it take for your LO to adjust to sleeping unswaddled??

 

[Tanni31]

have you thought of trying a sleeping bag hun???

My lg is forever kicking her blankets off, she used to have a routine of going up in her sleeping bag and then having blankets tucked tightly around her.

 

[AngelofTroy]

He's in one!

All my usual techniques have failed! Nursing him to sleep doesn't work as he startles as I lay him down, plus he's bringing any milk he takes in back up as he's not hungry.. He keeps taking his dummy in and out..I tried 'shh, pat' and he just grabs my fingers and plays with them!

 

[Tanni31]

lol - little monkey!

Izzie was a monkey at night to begin with. We turned all the lights off, we wouldnt look at her and rocked her humming all the time. Every time we tried to put her in the moses basket the little monkey would feel it. We would keep her close to our chests and lean all the way in, place the arm holding her weight in the basket and slowly ease her off!! I think the minute she felt the body heat leave her she knew it! I ended up cuddling her in my arms in bed. But we did get there in the end. It took us a few weeks. It was tiring. Fancy putting a warm (not hot) water bottle in his bed for a couple of minutes so there is some warmth and then taking it out and putting him down?

Hope he manages to fall asleep for you hun so you dont feel like a zombie tomorrow. Little pickle!

 

[ElmaWG]

We stopped swaddling about 2 weeks ago for the same reason (DS is 4.5 months). It think it took about a week to get better...but it's still not great. But his sleep was pretty bad while swaddled too, so I don't know, could be a normal sleep regression issue with him. Good luck!

 

[ElmaWG]

BTW, we still swaddle from the armpits down. I think it helps a bit.

 

[socitycourty]

Like a PP said you could wrap him nice and snug under his arms....my LO was swaddled for her first few weeks and then we stopped because she ended up sleeping with me. But to put her to sleep I would hold her in my arms fimrly and rock her or bounce her, or shh/pat, with pacifier or use the swing. He will get used to it, he's just used to being really snug when he goes to sleep

 

[bananaz]

When I had to stop swaddling at night I had much better luck putting my LO down on her belly, probably because then her arms were pressed against the mattress so she couldn't flail around/startle as much as she did on her back. I won't lie, though - there was still an adjustment period, and it did take a while to get back to her previous sleep habits.

 

[Zephram]

I just went through unswaddling my 3.5 month old. He was showing signs of being able to roll over soon so I thought it would be better to wean him off swaddling gradually than jar to go cold turkey when he eventually did. Plus he was goin nutso whilst being swaddled and breaking out of a zip up mum2mum swaddle. Don't ask me how! Little escape artist.

I would definitely recommend a sleeping bag! It's quite like being swaddled but with arms free - LO loves his. Or you could swaddle from underarms down as already mentioned.

I have to be honest it has been hell for about two weeks and his sleep is only just coming right now. What I did was unswaddle first for naps, then start at night. I didn't bother doing the one arm out thing, I just stuck him in bed in sleeping bag and swaddled at the point in the night that he couldn't get back to sleep. First it was 9pm, then 11, then 3am then 5am and finally all night. He has been waking up about twice as much as his swaddled nights but the number of wake ups is slowly coming down as he gets used to his arms out and settling himself with arms out.

I think he's getting to love it as when I check on him he is sleeping with arms flung out.

Not sure if you can do the gradual approach if he's already rolling, but good luck! You may be in for a rough week or two but he will come right.

 

[Indi84]

Maybe check out a zippade sack, they're designed for this, when my lo is around 4.5 months I'm going to try it unless he rolls first. I feel your pain if mine has his arms free at any point in the night he just cries
With it, he sleeps in six hour chunks.

I know it's an American company but it you email the maker she'll tell you where to get then in England, I can't remember the website, but she had one stockist here. I've bought mine ready!

https://zipadeezip.com/store/#boy

 

[greats]

Stalking! If Rylee isn't swaddled & we lay her on her back, she'll stay asleep for about 15 minutes until her arms start to flail around like crazy, she smacks herself in the face, & wakes herself up & starts crying. She's been like that since birth so that's why we started swaddling at 2 weeks old. Listening to other moms (including my SIL) I don't think all babies are like mine when it comes to their arms constantly flailing around while sleeping on their backs. My niece slept peacefully on her back from day 1, wish mine would! lol

 

[minties]

I'm so glad Sophie is slow at learning to roll, she hasn't even tried yet. I've got the swaddle AND dummy to wean her off eventually.

I got up one morning and my son had rolled onto his front in the swaddle, it was scary! It took months to wean him off it, he was about 7.5 months before he finally slept a night without it.

 

[Twister]

Not looking forward to the day Jess learns how to roll back to front. We did a trial last week for a day to see how she got on in a sleeping bag, it failed miserably and by her second nap I was back to swaddling again

 

[Stacey_Ann]

Can't recommend LoveToSwaddleUp highly enough! It's a great transitional swaddle x

 

[greats]

Any luck not swaddling? We had to ditch it tonight bc lo rolls now and gets outof it. She wasn't sleeping any better in it anyways. Dh has resorted to cosleeping with her bc she's been up flailing her arms around in her crib every 15 mins tonight.

 

[Sambatiki]

My baby is too young to roll but I also recommend the love to swaddle up. Pheebs loves it and I'll be getting the next size up when she's bigger.

https://www.kiddisave.co.uk/store/product/12240/Love-To-Dream-Love-To-Swaddle-Up-White-Large/

 

[AngelofTroy]

Any luck not swaddling? We had to ditch it tonight bc lo rolls now and gets outof it. She wasn't sleeping any better in it anyways. Dh has resorted to cosleeping with her bc she's been up flailing her arms around in her crib every 15 mins tonight.

Yes! We had 2 nights of hell, up umpteen times and up to 2 hours to resettle BUT night 3 last night and he slept 9.30pm-6am!! He made noises at 4 and 5.30am but went back to sleep without any intervention from us. He woke in a great mood this morning too Ill let you know how tonight goes, good luck! xxx

 

[greats]

Any luck not swaddling? We had to ditch it tonight bc lo rolls now and gets outof it. She wasn't sleeping any better in it anyways. Dh has resorted to cosleeping with her bc she's been up flailing her arms around in her crib every 15 mins tonight.

Yes! We had 2 nights of hell, up umpteen times and up to 2 hours to resettle BUT night 3 last night and he slept 9.30pm-6am!! He made noises at 4 and 5.30am but went back to sleep without any intervention from us. He woke in a great mood this morning too Ill let you know how tonight goes, good luck! xxx

Ahhhhh thank you! Question: does he move around in his sleep a lot? Rylee doesn't lay still unless she's swaddled, otherwise she moves her arms around like crazy so that they constantly hit her face waking her up, and also raising her legs & continuously dropping them onto her crib mattress. This is the biggest issue we're having.

 

[cmarie33]

Looking at the love to swaddle ups, my lo is 15lb, the large is from 18lb up... Do I buy large and save having to buy two? I'm dreading lo not being swaddled. She hates it