Swaddling??

[deanbean]

Hoping for a bit of a survey response here.......:fingerscrossed:

My 5 and a bit month old is increasingly fighting being wrapped for sleeping. Once she's wrapped she is happy enough and it definitiely helps her go to sleep (less time settling in Mummy's arms) and stay asleep between cycles.

A couple of weeks ago I tried wrapping her with one arm in and one out to get used to not being wrapped. We went from a 5-10min settling period at night to 2 hours!!! Not easy to handle at any time of the day let alone the end!!

Most of the time she manages to wriggle her way out of the wrap anyway and so sometimes I wonder how effective it is. So my survey is 2-fold:

- What age did you stop swaddling?
- How and why did you stop swaddling?

Thanks all:)

[Karizma]

I always wrapped them to sleep or they wouldnt sleep. But my 3 yr old has a certain wrap that was his favorite, that he sleeps with as his blanky, and still does. I wrap them and they always get out as they get older, but stopped probably when they were about 7mths old.

[blueeyes]

I stopped wrapping at about six months during the day and at night the babe stopped being wrapped at about 3 months.
At night, he went into a sleeping bag and wondersuit that covered his hands and during the day he is in his grobag with mittens on.
The reason I kept wrapping was to cover his hands as he sucks them as he is settling and also going through sleep cycles, and his bare hands wake him up (go figure). So I tried just covering the hands and it is a winner.
He wasnt wrapped tightly, so I knew that it wasnt a security type thing but rather just his hands.

[funnyfarm]

I too tried to stop my daughter when she was about 5-6 months old and had the same problem. So in the end i just kept on swaddling her until she stopped it herself.

Finally at 11 months old she didn't need to be wrapped tightly but still wanted her blankies wrapped around her. So i just slowly did not looser and looser until she just was holding her blankies. Now at 2years and 2 months she still needs her blankies to sleep (cuddles them).

Janet.

[sonlou73]

i'm going through a swaddling 'dilemma' at the moment.

DS2 was 10lbs when born in November. Anyway with him being big (not having big enough wraps for him), i stopped swaddling him at 2 months, plus it was summer. He wasn't sleeping through the night so at 6 months i decided to swaddle him in a large cot blanket - he then started sleeping through the night :thumbsup: BUT now he is 9.5 months, i was thinking he is getting too big for it so i stopped swaddling him 3 nights ago & he has been waking through the night since :thumbsdown: , i haven't yet given in to swaddling him, if he keeps it up i think i'll just go back to it & he can grow out of it.

[littleboyblue]

I stopped wrapping my son at about 3-4 weeks old and he loves not being wrapped he needs to be able to kick his legs and put his arms above his head to sleep.

[Areca]

DD is 9 months old and still gets swaddled. She doesn't know how to go to sleep otherwise. She only needs to be swaddled if she's going to sleep in the cot, nowhere else. The day she unwraps herself and then goes to sleep will be the day we stop.

[lovingmotheract]

my 9month old was a bad sleeper and still was swadding till she was 8 months in the end i got help to get her out of it so sleep school was the go i had to stay over 4 4 nights and the first night she did not want to be wraped and sleep all night. What i got told there is that when they can get from there tummys to there backs then stop wraping think about sids that y i wanted to stop and had to to save my sleep and pice of mine. GOOD lUCK:fingerscrossed: all go's well pm me if u still need help

[Seekrit]

My 2 month old is a good sleeper, from birth we only wrapped at night time so he'd associate it with night sleep. I'd ALWAYS find he'd kicked his arms and legs out by the time he woke up... so last week I stopped wrapping his arms, just under them now as I don't like tucking him in (again, kicks off the blankets.. wrapped he can still kick but the blankies stay on)
Since Monday night, he's slept through 5/7 nights. I'm very impressed! He also can put himself to sleep now as he's not trying to get his arms out.

[ETsMum]

Have you tried a sleeping bag (eg, gro bag) instead?
No matter what new thing you try, it may take a few days for bub to get used to it.

We stopped at 3 months because it was too hot.

[aardvark]

I stopped wrapping my son at about 3-4 weeks old and he loves not being wrapped he needs to be able to kick his legs and put his arms above his head to sleep.

Same here. It depends on the bub though. I still wrapped DD#2 when she was 10 months old to get her to settle. I think I used a cot sheet as the wraps were too small.

[poppet]

I still wrap DD in a cot sheet, she won't go to sleep otherwise

[~mia&ryan~]

I stopped swaddling Mia at around 2 months because she was starting to wake up everytime she got a hand or foot out.:thumbsdown: I started on her day sleeps having her arms out (with socks on them) it only took her a few days to get used to it. I took her longer than usual to settle though (she has always gone down in her cot awake). Once she was used to it during the day I started on nights. I put her in a sleeping bag (she will NOT put up with one during the day no matter how cold it is - go the layers!) and for the first few nights she woke 2 or 3 times and took awhile to resettle (she has slept through since about 7 or 8 weeks). But after a week or so it was back to normal. She actually sleeps longer now cos she moves around and gets herself really comfy. Good luck with weaning her off it when you decide to, just do what you feel is right for YOUR baby, not what everyone else is doing. Good luck!:hugs: