Swaddling... How long?

I can not remember how long I have swaddled my kids in the past, but I am pretty sure not this long. The twins know it is nap or bed time when we swaddle them and they go right to sleep. They are not quite rolling over yet so I guess I will swaddle until that happens??? They are sleeping so good that I am afraid if I stop the swaddle they may not. Any thoughts? Ideas on how to transition them? I do have sleep sacks that I put them in after they are swaddled but they have not just been in those alone.

 

With the twins, they were 'addicted' to swaddling but started to break out by 3-4 months. My last never was swaddled (that was great).

Start by not swaddling their arms, or one arm.. a suggestion at least.

 

Ethan was swaddled only until 2.5 months old. He broke out of the Miracle Blanket the first night I used it and transitioned fine to a sleep sack since he wanted his arms free.

Chase was swaddled until 7.5 months! We were in the same situation- the swaddle signaled sleep for him and he was sleeping decently, so I was afraid for when it was time to get rid of the swaddle. At 7.5 months, he started rolling over when I would put him down in his crib. I tried doing one arm free, but that didn't work since he was rolling. I just switched to a sleep sack. We had to do a little bit of CIO- mostly just rubbing his back to calm him down until he realized he could roll around to find a comfy position to sleep in. Once we broke the swaddle, he started STTN! I shouldn't have worried as much as I did.

 

We swaddled until our boys could roll over, and then we switched to sleep sacks. I started by swaddling them a bit loosely so I knew they would work their arms out, then swaddled with one arm out, then switched to sleep sacks. That seemed to work for us.

 

we swaddled until just after 6 mo. you could also use the sleep sacks and put their arms inside it would give them a little feeling of being swaddled, yet not have total arm freedom..

 

One of my boys was swaddled until about 5 months. He always got out of the swaddle in the night so we switched to sleep sacks for a while, for another month or so. My other son loved being swaddled and so we swaddled him longer, until about 6 months before switching to a sleep sack. We haven't used sleep sacks for a couple of months now and they are fine without them.

 

We swaddled until 7.5 months....was only way to get DD1 to sleep longer! Do what works for you!!!

 

We stopped with Sarah around 3 months because the daycare staff said she was falling asleep just fine without it at naptime. She never seemed to notice much difference.

We stopped with Amy at 5 months because she wasn't letting us rock her to sleep anymore -- she would fight it and fight it until we decided we just had to let her CIO instead. And if we'd done that while she was swaddled, she would have been out of the swaddle in 10 seconds flat, so we went cold turkey on that at the same time. (She was getting out of it in her sleep by that point anyway.) It only took a couple of days for her to get used to it.

 

4.5 months here... they were fighting it too much.

 

We transitioned our girls between 3-4 months. We did the one arm for a few days, then both arms, and now we just use the sleep sack. One thing you might want to try when putting them down at night, give them a small blanket or something that they only get when its time to for bed at night, so they associate that new toy/blanket with bedtime at night instead of the swaddle. It worked great for us!

Good Luck.

 

4 months for bedtime....6 months for naptime. We quit cold turkey both times.

 

We stopped at 3 months. When they were tiny they were side sleepers no matter what we did to try to keep them on their backs. By the time they were 3 months they were rolling like crazy and insisted on sleeping on their tummies. They could break out of the swaddle faster than I could swaddle them or would just get furious if they couldn't get their arms out. I didn't want them sleeping on their tummies swaddled so we stopped cold turkey. It didn't bother them one bit. They still went straight down and STTN (10pm - 7am) so we never looked back.

 

Our LO's are not rolling over yet from the back to the tummy. DD will go from tummy to back. They sleep together and sleep great, but when we have tried to just put them in the sleep sack they hit each other or startle each other and once we tried without the sleep sack they ended up sideways kicking each other etc. We are not prepared to separate them yet. Even if one wakes or cries it really does not affect the other. I guess when they start to fight it we will stop?

 

We swaddled our son until he started sucking his thumb and was using that to pacify himself at night, and we swaddled our daughter until she learned how to roll onto her belly while swaddled, which was right around 5.5 months. Once she did that we moved into a sleep sack and just let her flip herself onto her belly to sleep. She slept so much better/longer/sounded once she rolled onto her belly!

 

wow, haha, my 2 are still in their woombies and love it! they will be 10 months on the 25th!