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Offline suzie767

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do i need to wean ds off swaddle?
« on: March 23, 2007, 13:15:18 pm »
my ds is nearly 16 weeks old and is still swaddled for night time and naps. is this still too old to be swaddled and do i need to start weaning ihm off it?

id be interested to hear how you got your "lo off the swaddle"

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Re: do i need to wean ds off swaddle?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2007, 18:45:52 pm »
Hi

I don't know if there is an age where you should stop with the swaddle but we just went cold turkey and put dd in a sleeping bag one night.  She was fine - I had been convinced she needed to have her arms in to stop the jolts etc but she has been able to settle herself much better without it.

Good luck.
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Re: do i need to wean ds off swaddle?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2007, 19:22:23 pm »
i was very paranoid about having my LO swaddled for too long.  so i tried to do one arm out.  we did it only for naps and for like a month.  she still was having trouble sleeping.  but i thought i "should" wean her.  so for a week she "slept" in a sleep sack.  it was an AWFUL week.  we were both exhausted.

the wonderful mods here said to swaddle the poor angel if she needed it.  so i went back to swaddling.  she was breaking the swaddle a lot though because she was so big.  one night she broke out and when i woke up the next morning, she was unswaddled and still sleeping.  She was about 28 or 29 weeks.

so the point of this long story is that i think you should swaddle your LO until he's ready.  give him the opportunity at nap time to sleep with one arm out but i wouldn't force it if he can't sleep without being swaddled. 
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Re: do i need to wean ds off swaddle?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2007, 22:01:36 pm »
thanks so much for your responses. sometimes i think we get caught up in what we "should" be doing.

i tried my lo in a sleeping bag today and he slept fine until the 45 minute mark which i have managed to get him past for the last week. i think at this point he needed the swaddle to help him thru. ive tried him a couple of times during the night and i cant really tell if it makes a difference as we're just at the point where he no longer really needs his night feed and im using the paci to get him back off so his 4/5 oclock sleep is currently a bit unsettled.

i think ill keep using swaddle for naps and maybe try without on a night (his day sleep is not the best).

i guess he'll just drop it on his own

thanks again

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