Another swaddling question

I think we have to stop swaddling Matthew, he breaks from it for 3 nights in the row. His arms are everywhere so I gently swaddle him again and he is back to sleep an hour later his arms are out again :headbang: So for those who went through unswaddling how did it go, how long did it take for them to adjust? I soooo hate this and he is our good sleeper.

 

We stopped swaddling as well when my girls were breaking out of it consistently, and it was causing way to much frustration for all of us. We just stopped swaddling cold turkey, and it only took a couple nights (if that) for them to adjust. It wasn't bad at all. I know that some people slowly do away with the swaddle by leaving out one limb at a time until they are completely unswaddled. Good Luck!!

 

We stopped swaddling Amy at 5 months -- cold turkey. It was rough for about 2 nights and then it was totally fine. We did have to do CIO at that same point because it was impossible to rock her to sleep if she was unswaddled. (We had also tried intermediate methods like the Sleep Lady, but any sort of interaction with her just seemed to make it worse.) So it's hard to know how much of the upheaval was due to CIO and how much to unswaddling -- but in any case, she got over it VERY quickly and was back to being a great sleeper.

(We unswaddled Sarah even earlier, but we had already stopped rocking her to sleep because she started doing that miraculous put-me-down-drowsy-and-I'll-fall-asleep thing. Amy never did that.)

 

http://www.pekemoe.co.nz/

a friend bought one of these, you might be able to do something similar with a sleep sack and just leaving their arms inside the sack... the bag mentioned above is quite pricey... but my friend LOVES it! her dd is 7 mo and can't sleep w/o the swaddle, at the beginning she swaddled inside the sleep bag, but now she's completely unswaddled inside the sleep bag... the bag allows the baby to be able to have access to their hands, and her baby even can grab her paci and take it in and out and keep on sleeping...

anyway, I started unswaddling at 6.5 mo. and I remember it was a bad month or so getting them to sleep without the swaddle...

also, one comment... we didn't "gently swaddle"... I wrapped them tight to be able to keep their arms inside... not sure if you'll be able to keep swaddling yet or not... good luck with what you do.

 

We went from swaddling to sleep sacks and my LO's did fine with that.

 

I stopped swaddling at 4 months and it took about 3 days for them to adjust. We didn't transition out, we just went cold turkey. They sleep better now that they are out because now they self soothe!